Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.

Lead Backend Engineer responsible for high-profile projects using backend technologies, team leadership, and deployment of scalable applications. Requires 10+ years of experience in software development, particularly with C# and .NET and cloud services.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for leading complex engineering projects, designing scalable systems, mentoring junior engineers, and enhancing platform performance at Socure.

Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for commerce workflows using Python/Django. Improve reliability, performance, and observability, operate AWS deployments, work with PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS), modernize legacy systems, and support CI/CD, testing, and production troubleshooting.

Lead architecture and implementation of conversational AI systems, build scalable backend services and REST APIs, drive high-impact projects, integrate external partners and carriers, collaborate with Data Science on ML/LLM solutions, and ensure platform performance and scalability.

Design, build, and maintain backend workflow orchestration and state management for analyzer integrations on the ECL platform. Modernize legacy .NET systems, ensure reliable event-driven operations, collaborate with integration, infrastructure, and QA teams, and preserve workflow behavior during knowledge transfer.

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.

The Senior Platform Backend Engineer will design and operate AWS-based systems, focusing on backend services for data platforms and analytics, while ensuring reliability and operational excellence.

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

Design, optimize, and scale ClickUp's search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch. Improve relevance, speed, and real-time indexing; build vector/semantic search capabilities; create measurement frameworks; integrate search with AI and product features; troubleshoot at scale; and mentor junior engineers to maintain high search quality under heavy load.

Build and maintain secure, well-tested backend systems and internal tooling (dashboards, workflows, automation) for lending and trading operations. Design scalable APIs and durable workflows, integrate external services, optimise performance, and collaborate with Risk, Ops, Trading, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable production systems.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

The Staff Backend Software Engineer will design and improve scalable backend systems for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, ensuring system reliability and data consistency while influencing technical strategy and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

Develop and enhance backend systems, collaborate with teams for project execution, and improve engineering standards and processes.

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.

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

Define technical direction and architect systems for high-performance, scalable infrastructure. Mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions. Manage large-scale data ingestion and retrieval.

The Staff Backend Engineer will lead the Gatekeeper system, focusing on performance, reliability, and operations while collaborating with service teams to enhance overall system durability and security.

The Staff Backend Engineer will architect high-throughput streaming systems, define technical direction, mentor engineers, and solve complex problems for Helius' core products.

The Staff Backend Engineer will design and scale core systems for a B2B SaaS platform, focusing on backend architecture, reliability, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

The Backend Engineer will architect and optimize execution and matching infrastructure for low-latency trading systems, focusing on performance with a strong systems background.

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