Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Design, build, and scale highly available backend services for a data-intensive SaaS platform. Solve infrastructure problems, improve CI/CD and DevOps tooling, drive architectural decisions, run post-mortems, recommend technologies, and champion continuous improvement and observability.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Lead and deliver quarterly goals for a backend team; guide engineers through ambiguous problems; collaborate with product, design, and analytics; identify and resolve project and technical issues; ensure operational availability and on-call readiness; set code and design quality standards; and mentor and develop team members.

Develop, maintain, and optimize mission-critical backend APIs and scalable cloud services for web and mobile clients. Implement secure, high-performance systems, automated tests, observability, and technical documentation. Mentor peers, follow best practices, and support a proof-of-concept launch and fundraising activities as a volunteer contributor.

Design, build, test, and support EPIC integration solutions across the full interface lifecycle. Gather requirements, resolve integration issues, develop standards and documentation, and provide production support within a remote, volunteer, part-time setup.

Build and ship backend systems and robust architectures for SMB and enterprise restaurant customers. Drive end-to-end development including planning, CI/CD, and productionization. Collaborate on product roadmap, iterate from user feedback, and contribute to team culture and growth.

The Back-end Engineer will develop and maintain services and APIs, design data models, and contribute to system stability, collaborating with other engineers and product managers.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Micronaut enterprise frameworks and cloud-native microservices on Azure. Build and deploy services to AKS, create CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, implement batch/asynchronous workflows, integrate messaging systems, optimize databases, and ensure security, observability, and resilience.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design and implement systems for decentralized applications, enhance scalability, and collaborate with the team.

The Software Engineer, Backend Engineer will develop, automate, and maintain core functionalities for Rescale customers, focusing on backend systems and cloud services.

The Backend Engineer will develop infrastructure for product integration, create documentation for team training, and influence technology decisions.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Build and maintain backend services and APIs, write unit tests, debug and optimize systems, support migration from Supabase to cloud, improve reliability, and integrate AI/RPA workflows while learning under senior mentorship.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Build, operate, and own cloud-native backend services and platform infrastructure (primarily in AWS) to enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads. Write production Python code, implement IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), deploy containerized workloads, design observability and CI/CD, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Lead the design and development of scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS, mentor engineers, and manage PostgreSQL databases in a healthcare technology environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable backend services and event-driven systems for Fetch's ads, rewards, and offer platforms. Own APIs, eligibility and attribution logic, reward fulfillment, observability, platformization, and cross-functional architecture decisions to support high-throughput consumer experiences and revenue-generating systems.

The Senior Back End Engineer will manage backend services, enhancing reliability and observability, while shipping production-level code and contributing to platform modernization.

Own and build backend services for benefit estimate (270/271), claims adjudication integrations, and claims processing pipelines. Ensure accuracy, reliability, and throughput across PostgreSQL, Redis, and BigQuery, design APIs, participate in architecture and incident response, and contribute to on-call rotation.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.