Humana is a major American health insurance provider and healthcare services company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1961, the company is one of the largest managed care organizations in the U.S., specializing primarily in senior-focused care delivery, individual and group Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid programs, and supplemental insurance products (dental, vision, and pharmacy benefits).
HQ: Louisville, United States • Financial Services • Health Care • Insurance • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1961
$118k – $162k per year • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Louisville • Fort Lauderdale • Washington • Chicago • Tampa • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Azure
GCP
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
$89k – $121k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Louisville • Nashville • Dallas • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C#
C#
.NET
Databases
Oracle
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
≈ $112k – $185k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
Azure
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Power BI
TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence and financial crime prevention platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company provides law enforcement agencies, government bodies, regulatory organizations, and financial institutions with tools to monitor, detect, and investigate illicit cryptocurrency transactions and digital asset fraud.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Blockchain & Crypto • Blockchain Analytics
$180k – $210k per year • Equity • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
PagerDuty
Web3
TRM Labs
Management
Slack
$190k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Flink
Prompt Engineering
Semantic Search
Spark
Semantic Search
DevOps
Datadog
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Web3
TRM Labs
$190k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Flink
Prompt Engineering
Semantic Search
Spark
Semantic Search
DevOps
Datadog
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Web3
TRM Labs
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015 with the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It develops the GPT family of large language models and turns them into consumer and developer products, including the ChatGPT assistant, the Sora video model, the Codex coding agent and a commercial API used by millions of developers. Structured as a public benefit corporation controlled by a non-profit foundation, the company is backed by Microsoft and SoftBank and operates from San Francisco.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
$185k – $385k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
$230k – $385k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
AI/ML
ChatGPT
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
$266k – $445k per year • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Salesforce is a global leader in cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their customers in a whole new way. Its comprehensive Customer 360 platform provides integrated applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Software • Information Technology • Sales & Marketing • Media & Entertainment • AI Agents • Commerce • Books • Professional Services • Artificial Intelligence • Marketplaces • Marketing Automation • Cloud Computing • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • 1001-5000 employees
$173k – $260k per year • Lead • In office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
Python
Celery
Django
Flask
Databases
RabbitMQ
Redis
AI/ML
Agentforce
AI Agents
DevOps
Akamai
AWS
CI/CD
Cloudflare
CloudFormation
Helm
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Spinnaker
Terraform
Marketing
Salesforce
$149k – $224k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Washington, San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Java
Python
Databases
HBase
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Chaos Engineering
ZooKeeper
Marketing
Salesforce
$86k – $104k per year • Intern • In office (San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Washington, Burlington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
JavaScript
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
Gemini
LLM
Agentforce
DevOps
GitHub
Marketing
Salesforce
Checkr is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that was founded in 2014. The company provides an AI-powered platform for background checks, identity verification, and compliance screening services for employment, tenant, and mortgage applications. It serves over 140,000 businesses ranging from startups to large enterprises and operates primarily in the United States while expanding its global data coverage.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Property Management • Real Estate • Risk Management • Financial Services • Identity Management • Cybersecurity • Professional Services • Human Resources • Est. 2014
≈ $157k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
JavaScript
Ruby
AI/ML
Anthropic
Frontend
React.js
≈ $155k – $280k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Senior
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Anthropic
Management
Airtable
≈ $157k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
JavaScript
Ruby
Frontend
React.js
Nava Public Benefit Corp (Nava) is a digital services consultancy and public benefit corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2015 by technologists who helped rebuild HealthCare.gov, the firm partners with U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies to modernize critical public benefits infrastructure. Nava combines human-centered service design, agile engineering, cloud architecture, and open-source software development to build reliable, accessible digital systems for healthcare, social safety net programs, veteran benefits, and workforce services.
HQ: Washington, United States • Software • Content Management Systems (CMS) • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2015
$128k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Contractor • Senior
Java
Java
Hibernate
Spring Boot
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Jenkins
Manicule is building AgentRel, a new category. Tomorrow's users aren't developers, they're agents. We get your product discovered and used by AI agents: docs, GEO, and social content built for how agents read.
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
$120k – $200k per year • Equity 0.5–1% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Claude
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Linear
Slack
Vanta is an automated security, continuous GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), and trust management platform designed to help businesses scale security and automate compliance. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company enables organizations to streamline audit processes and maintain real-time visibility into their security posture.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Security • Cybersecurity • Security Compliance • 1001-5000 employees
$321k – $378k per year • Lead • 15+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Principal
$145k – $171k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Management
Slack
Marketing
Salesforce
$224k – $263k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
FedRAMP
HIPAA
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Accenture is a leading global professional services company specializing in strategy, consulting, technology, and operations services. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the firm helps organizations optimize their business performance, navigate digital transformation, and implement advanced technologies like AI and cloud computing.
HQ: Dublin, Ireland • HQ: Chicago, United States • Artificial Intelligence • IT Consulting • Information Technology • 5000+ employees • Est. 1989
≈ $143k – $258k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 12+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Columbus, Kirkland, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Associate's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
pySpark
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
Spark
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Git
Jenkins
GitHub
GitLab
Analytics
ETL/ELT
$163k – $434k per year • Executive • 12+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Columbus, Kirkland, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Associate's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
pySpark
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
Spark
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Git
Jenkins
GitHub
GitLab
Analytics
ETL/ELT
≈ $170k – $318k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 12+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Columbus, Kirkland, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Associate's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
pySpark
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
Spark
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Git
Jenkins
GitHub
GitLab
Analytics
ETL/ELT
AZX is an artificial intelligence engineering enterprise and Public Benefit Corporation specializing in AI transformation and custom software solutions for critical infrastructure sectors. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the company designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI systems, agentic workflows, and custom inference platforms tailored for asset-heavy industries - including energy, power utilities, commercial real estate, and supply chain logistics.
HQ: Bellevue, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Supply Chain • Energy & Utilities • Artificial Intelligence
$140k – $230k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Seattle • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Knowledge Graph
Robotics
Digital Twin
Snowflake is a cloud software company that helps organisations store, process, and analyse large volumes of data in a way that is designed for modern cloud infrastructure. Many businesses struggle with data spread across different systems, slow reporting cycles, and the cost and complexity of managing traditional data warehouses.
HQ: Bozeman, United States • Database Management • Data & Analytics • Data Warehousing • 1001-5000 employees
Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States, Malaysia) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company based in San Francisco and founded in 2025. The company develops multimodal AI systems and open-weights models, such as Inkling, alongside developer tools like Tinker for model fine-tuning. It operates as a public benefit corporation focused on human-AI collaboration and open science, supported by significant venture capital investment.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Machine Learning • Multimodal AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2025
$300k – $475k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Senior
$300k – $475k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Middle • Polish (Optional)
Python
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Frontend
React.js
$300k – $475k per year • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
Frontend
React.js
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Crypto Exchanges • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012
≈ $180k – $299k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
Go
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Buildkite
CI/CD
gRPC
Kubernetes
Terraform
≈ $118k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Middle
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Web Components
DevOps
Datadog
gRPC
OpenTelemetry
AWS Step Functions
Web3
Reown
≈ $167k – $313k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
Go
Java
Python
DevOps
AWS
Envoy
Istio
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
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San Francisco • 1-10 employees • Est. 2024
$175k – $300k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Citizens Financial Group is one of the oldest and largest financial institutions in the United States, offering a comprehensive suite of commercial and retail banking services. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, the enterprise operates an extensive network of physical branches, ATMs, and digital platforms across multiple regions. Through its tailored personal, private, and corporate solutions, the bank assists individuals, small businesses, and institutions in managing capital and achieving their financial goals.
HQ: Providence, United States • Financial Services • Banking • 501-1000 employees
≈ $85k – $207k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Senior
JavaScript
C#
C#
.NET
DevOps
Git
Jenkins
Analytics
ETL/ELT
≈ $108k – $242k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • High School Diploma • Principal
Java
SQL
JavaScript
Java
Hibernate
Maven
Spring Boot
Spring MVC
Databases
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
JAX
Frontend
Bootstrap
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Bitbucket
CI/CD
Datadog
Docker
Git
Kubernetes
Logstash
Rest API
ZooKeeper
QA
Swagger
Medplum is an API-first, open-source healthcare developer platform designed to help organizations build compliant medical applications and custom Electronic Health Records (EHR). Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides infrastructure tools like pre-built FHIR data models, identity management, and compliance frameworks. By streamlining backend healthcare operations, it enables developers to rapidly launch safe, scalable, and interoperable healthtech products.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Health Care • Software • Information Technology • Digital Health
$150k – $190k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
Frontend
React.js
$120k – $200k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
Frontend
React.js
$160k – $220k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Corgea uses large language models to find and automatically fix security vulnerabilities in application code. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco, it focuses on business logic flaws that traditional static analysis tools miss. The product proposes patches as pull requests for developers to approve.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Application Security • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
$120k – $200k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
$100k – $180k per year • Equity 0.2–2% • Junior • 1+ year exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Conductor Quantum is a Y Combinator-backed deep tech software company building AI-driven operating and calibration platforms for quantum computing hardware. The company engineers low-level control software designed to automate the complex, manual tuning and operational bring-up of quantum processors across hardware architectures like silicon spin qubits, superconducting transmons, and neutral atom systems.
San Francisco • Albuquerque • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
$120k – $180k per year • Equity 0.2–1.5% • Junior • 1+ year exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
ChatGPT
DevOps
Error Budget
Redwood Materials is a circular economy and battery recycling company focused on creating a closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy storage. Founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, the firm recovers critical metals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper from used electronics and manufacturing scrap to produce high-performance battery components domestically. By recycling and remanufacturing these materials, it aims to lower the environmental impact and cost of batteries while strengthening North American supply chains.
HQ: Carson City, United States • Manufacturing • Metals & Metallurgy • Energy & Utilities • Energy Storage • Est. 2017
≈ $157k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
≈ $114k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
C++
Python
Rust
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
GitHub
QA
Pytest
≈ $152k – $310k per year (Estimated) • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Bucket Robotics is a Y Combinator-backed industrial AI technology startup that builds edge-deployed vision systems for automated defect detection in high-volume manufacturing. By generating photorealistic synthetic datasets directly from 3D CAD files, the platform eliminates the need for manual image collection and labeling when training computer vision models. Engineered to operate under variable lighting, changing parts, and uncalibrated line conditions, its edge software integrates directly with existing factory cameras across operations such as injection molding, casting, and surface finishing.
San Francisco
$100k – $120k per year • Equity 0.2–1.2% • Junior • 1+ year exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
$160k – $220k per year • Equity 1–3% • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
Design
Figma
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Intern |
8 |
$96K |
$108K |
$126K |
| Junior |
132 |
$140K |
$170K |
$201K |
| Middle |
238 |
$165K |
$200K |
$250K |
| Senior |
935 |
$195K |
$225K |
$264K |
| Staff |
448 |
$238K |
$280K |
$320K |
| Lead |
146 |
$200K |
$250K |
$300K |
| All levels |
2,195 |
$194K |
$240K |
$300K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Relocation package
7%
247
The market right now
Alion currently lists 3,583 open Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco from 1,114 companies. 442 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 948 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
2,195 of these Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $194K and $300K a year, with a median of $240K. By level, the median runs intern at $108K, junior at $170K, middle at $200K, senior at $225K, staff at $280K, and lead at $250K. The step from intern to lead is worth about 2.3x on median pay. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are United States (142), France (7), Spain (6), Canada (5), and Ireland (4). 58% of the listings are fully remote and a further 12% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco right now are OpenAI (151), Anthropic (66), Clickhouse (59), Affirm (49), Crusoe (39), and Databricks (36). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (1,729), AWS (1,344), JavaScript (1,291), TypeScript (1,278), AI Agents (1,073), Kubernetes (1,054), CI/CD (950), and React.js (850). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco, 400 state visa sponsorship, 247 offer a relocation package, and 973 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
