Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $197,000 |
| Median | $225,000 |
| 75th percentile | $242,000 |
| Lowest listing | $121,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 176 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Affirm | 22 | $225,000 |
| OpenAI | 7 | $356,000 |
| Ramp | 7 | $242,000 |
| Coinbase | 6 | $220,000 |
| Plaid | 6 | $214,000 |
| Databricks | 6 | $196,000 |
| True Talent Solutions Partners | 5 | $250,000 |
| Verkada | 5 | $230,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 155 | $225,000 | $200,000 to $244,000 |
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Inflection, you will own the platforms, systems, and services that bring our conversational AI to life at scale.
Anthropic is looking for experienced, product-minded engineers to own the backend systems that power user experiences across our API, Claude Code, and Claude.ai.
GTM Innovation’s mission is to automate 100% of digital knowledge work for OpenAI's GTM so sellers spend more time directly with customers applying their strategy and judgment.
Financial Engineering (FinEng) builds the financial systems behind ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI’s API platform. These products serve people, developers, and businesses around the world. We make them easy to buy, use, and pay for.
The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 4d ago
Join the backend engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building features and systems that support core business goals. You will take ownership of substantial engineering work and help the team ship effectively as it grows.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 10d ago
Join the engineering team at a consumer gaming company to build backend systems and features that support its core business. You will own projects end to end, solve data-driven challenges, and help the team deliver at a fast pace.
Dots is looking for a Backend Engineer to build the systems that power our product. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into reliable services and deliver features from design through production.
We combine OpenAI's models, financial data, and enterprise knowledge to help professionals research companies, analyze markets, and produce high-quality work in the tools they use every day.
Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.
Tapestry · 7d ago
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced engineering leader to join our growing team. In this role, you will lead the technical strategy, architecture and development for enterprise applications that will meet the needs of an evolving electric grid at planet scale.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers.
AI is being built by many companies at once. Model labs train more capable models, hyperscalers provide infrastructure and distribution, developers build new AI products, and a growing set of tools gives agents more to work with.
The Software Engineering team is responsible for designing and building the scalable, performant, and secure backend systems that power our products—from early prototypes to large-scale deployments.
As a member of the Compute Platform organization, you will collaborate with other teams - including Product, Infrastructure, Traffic, Cost & Capacity Engineering to:
Lead the vision – Define the technical direction, long-term technical roadmap, and strategic initiatives in Cards. Be a role model - Lead from the front as an example in using AI to build fast, take initiative, and revolutionize how we work.
As a Backend Platform Engineer at Harvey, you will help build and operate the cohesive backend platform that all our services run on.
The Marketplace Growth Engineering team is dedicated to the success of third-party sellers on our platform. We create the tools, services, and data platforms that form the backbone of the seller experience, from intuitive user interfaces to high-performance backend processing.
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 1d ago
Join the backend team for a no-code customer data activation product that helps users build audiences and sync warehouse data to downstream tools.
We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, Operations based in the United States. Join a forward-thinking engineering team developing advanced AI systems that transform how the insurance industry operates.
Build the backend systems that power AI-native marketing and growth products across creative production, experimentation, incentives, and cross-channel orchestration.
Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.
Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.
Own the backend infrastructure for an AI-powered personal assistant that communicates through text, email, and phone. As a hands-on founding engineer, you will design, operate, and improve reliable systems that ensure messages and scheduled actions work as expected.
The Backend team builds the software layer that connects 1X's physical robots to the digital systems that operate, monitor, and manage them at global scale.
We are directly responsible for the development of important defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices. We help maintain and expand security testing infrastructure that constantly evaluates devices for security vulnerabilities.
We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems that power our products.
Backend engineering at Mirage isn’t narrowly defined. We work across product, platform, and machine learning—building the systems, services, APIs, and ML pipelines that power all of our product surfaces.
The Core Licensing & Devices team owns the layer that turns Verkada's licenses into revenue: a double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles every license into daily revenue recognition.
Access Control is our second major product line. Our Access Control solution allows users to manage their doors, schedules, and user credentials from virtually anywhere on their laptop or phone.
Character AI · 10mo ago
We’re looking for a talented and creative Software Engineer to join our Safety Engineering team at Character.AI !
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design and build the core execution layer of an AI-driven product, covering runtime orchestration, tool integration, state handling and the reliability and evaluation work that lets it run in production.
Squarespace · 2mo ago
Squarespace is looking for a Backend Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of our Communications Platform team.
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Enterprise Platform team, you’ll set technical direction for foundational services that power NodeZero’s customer and partner experiences.
As a Software Engineer, Backend, you’ll design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance systems for user, group, and membership management. You’ll work in JavaScript and TypeScript, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL cloud-native databases, and AWS.
As a leader of the fastest growing segment at Venmo, CFS (Consumer Financial Services), this position will take primary accountability for the domain's backend platform features, capabilities and quality.
As a Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers.
· You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day. · You will design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal engineers need during incidents.
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Order Platform team, you'll shape the systems that power every Affirm purchase after checkout — orders, captures, refunds, and settlement — and drive the technical strategy that lets our merchants and consumers transact reliably at scale.
· You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers.
Develop scalable computer systems that manage a large volume of information and use them to fulfill business goals for the company and its partners.
Design and build full-stack internal applications and tools that empower operations teams to work more efficiently and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Internal developer platform adoption: Build and evolve platform capabilities that make it easier for engineering teams to create, deploy, operate, and scale services on Kubernetes.
Buying software and services is still slow and fragmented at most companies.
Paying vendors is one of the most manual, error-prone jobs in finance. Invoices arrive by email and PDF, get keyed in by hand, wait on approvals, and then have to be paid on time, by the right method, for the right amount, and recorded correctly in the books.
Getting paid is still one of the most manual parts of running a business. Finance teams chase invoices over email, match payments to invoices by hand in spreadsheets, and close the books late because cash data is scattered across banks, payment processors, and ERPs.
The median Backend Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $225,000 a year, based on 176 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $197,000 to $242,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Backend Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Backend Engineer listings range from $121,000 to $500,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $197,000 and the 75th percentile is $242,000.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Backend Engineer listings are Affirm (22 listings, median $225,000), OpenAI (7 listings, median $356,000), Ramp (7 listings, median $242,000), Coinbase (6 listings, median $220,000) and Plaid (6 listings, median $214,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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