Remote Senior Backend Engineer jobs paying $100k+ (39)
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USA· You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
- Pays more than 50% of Senior Backend Engineer jobs
- 4+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
ML Feature Platform is one of the two teams that compose the ML Platform at Affirm, the other team being ML Training & Serving Platform. The two platform teams work closely together to create the ML + Data flywheel that empowers Affirm.
- Pays more than 50% of Senior Backend Engineer jobs
- 4+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
You will be one of the first engineers to own Bantyr's backend end to end: the API, the data model, the money paths and the infrastructure underneath them. You report to the CTO and work alongside our chief engineer.
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products.
- 3+ years experience
- Apply on company site
Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets for millions of traders.
- 5+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.
- 5+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems across Coinbase's fund flows, contributing to the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling that partner teams rely on.
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
The Vertical Experiences team builds the experiences that bring pets into the family — pet profiles, activity timelines, care coordination, lost pet alerts, and third-party integrations.
- 5+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Wellness
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Blockworks, you’ll design, build, and maintain the systems that power our products end-to-end. From high-performance APIs to database architecture, you’ll own the backend layer that makes everything else possible.
- 5+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Learning budget
Join the Ordering Pod as a Senior Software Engineer to own the development of our high-revenue, flagship AI ordering product .
- 4+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
- Learning budget
- Wellness
Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability.
- 5+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
We build Tempo , the open-source distributed tracing backend behind Grafana Cloud Traces and Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Tempo makes it easy to search traces, generate metrics from spans, and connect tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles across the Grafana stack.
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- Equity
- Commission
- Paid time off
Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data,…
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- Equity
- Paid time off
Build and Evolve the Medical Data Server: Collaborate with engineers across the Clinical Data team to design, build, and operate the Python backend services and RESTful APIs responsible for managing clinical data.
- 6–8 years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Unlimited PTO
Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Back End Engineer based in the United States. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Back End Engineer to design, develop, and enhance reliable, scalable software solutions in a cloud-based environment.
- 5+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
The Public Cloud Foundations (PCF) team is part of Platform Engineering.
- 6+ years experience
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- Benefits
- Equity
Remote Senior Backend Engineer jobs at a glance
79 of the 159 Senior Backend Engineer jobs on Six Figure Jobs (50%) can be done remotely, and every one publishes a salary of $100k+ or the local equivalent. Most of the remote openings are with employers based in United States, Canada and Spain; some ask you to live in a given country or time zone, so check each listing.
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