Backend Developer Jobs in San Francisco

Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $276,456/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Multiply

gomultiply.com
gomultiply.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · E-learning · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · E-learning · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
Win by learning faster. Multiply combines AI and world-class experts to launch paid media 10X faster and convert 10X more for B2B.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 553 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Early Engineer, Full-Stack (San Francisco)

≈ $132k – $259k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
OpenAI Codex
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OpenAI
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Cluely

cluely.com
cluely.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Cluely builds a real time desktop assistant that listens to meetings and screens. Its overlay suggests answers during live conversations. The company became widely discussed for its provocative marketing.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 553 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Founding Engineer (Fullstack TypeScript)

$250k – $350k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
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SafetyKit

safetykit.com
safetykit.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cybersecurity AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cybersecurity AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Deploy AI agents to automate risk reviews, onboarding, and investigations. Trusted by leading marketplaces and fintech platforms.
Steven Guichard · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
David Graunke · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Jordan Angelos · Director
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Open 553 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Backend Engineer (Product, Infra)

≈ $140k – $302k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS CDK
AWS Lambda
AWS Step Functions
AWS
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Open 574 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Backend Engineer (Staff)

≈ $186k – $346k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS CDK
AWS Lambda
AWS Step Functions
AWS
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tiger.example

tiger.example
tiger.example · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Trust B · Hiring 4
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 558 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Backend Engineer

≈ $122k – $239k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle · English
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Onyx

onyx.app
onyx.app · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI Search · Vector Search & RAG · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI Search · Vector Search & RAG · Trust B · Hiring 4
Onyx is a software company that provides an open source generative artificial intelligence chat interface that connects to organizational documents, applications, and internal knowledge. Its platform is designed to let teams build and deploy AI assistants and natural language interfaces integrated with existing tools and data sources.
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Open 560 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

Fullstack Engineer

$150k – $400k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
NLP
Knowledge Graph
LLM
OpenAI
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GitLab
GitHub
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
Management
Notion
Confluence
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Mojorank

mojorank.com
mojorank.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Trust C · Hiring 17
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Trust C · Hiring 17
No named decision-maker yet.
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C++ Tech Lead

≈ $162k – $323k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 8+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Staff
C++
Java
Python
C++
CMake
DevOps
Git
CI/CD
Management
Scrum
Agile
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layerfi.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Accounting & Tax Software · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Accounting & Tax Software · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Layer helps software companies launch accounting to their SMB customers. Increase engagement, drive revenue, and become the financial home for your SMBs.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 581 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

Backend Engineer

≈ $105k – $216k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Kotlin
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Databases
PostgreSQL
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Amazon ECS
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Open 885 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 2 years ago Long shot · 3%

Fullstack Engineer

≈ $105k – $216k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Kotlin
Kotlin
Ktor
Exposed
Kotest
Databases
PostgreSQL
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Amazon ECS
API Gateway
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
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Omi

omi.me
omi.me · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers · Multimodal AI · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers · Multimodal AI · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Omi is a startup building an AI wearable device and app that records conversations as memory and offers a voice-first interface for everyday life. It has reached 300,000 software users, built three hardware devices and hires founding engineers, firmware, PCB and mechanical engineers in San Francisco and Shenzhen. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 584 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Founding Engineer

$300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Python
Flask
AI/ML
Embodied AI
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
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Transluce

transluce.org
transluce.org · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Nonprofits & Foundations · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust C · Hiring 10
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Nonprofits & Foundations · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust C · Hiring 10
Transluce is a non-profit research laboratory building open tools that make the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems observable and auditable. Its work includes automated interpretability agents that describe what neurons and features represent, and investigator systems that surface unexpected model behaviours at scale. The laboratory publishes its tooling openly so that external researchers and auditors can examine deployed models; its founders previously led research and engineering teams at frontier laboratories.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Likely inactiveTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Full-Stack Product Engineer

$250k – $500k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Nash

nash.ai
nash.ai · HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Delivery · Supply Chain & Logistics Software · AI Agents · Transportation & Logistics · Logistics · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 23, 1 new
HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Delivery · Supply Chain & Logistics Software · AI Agents · Transportation & Logistics · Logistics · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 23, 1 new
Autonomic logistics by Nash. Unify decisioning across fleets, carriers, and fulfillment networks. Set the objective; AI agents work until you hit it.
James Bodnar · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Backend Engineer

≈ $169k – $313k per year (Estimated) · Senior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
TypeScript
Python
Python
Asyncio
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Full Stack Engineer

≈ $165k – $308k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
Flask
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
GraphQL
DevOps
WebSockets
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
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You.com

you.com
you.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Search · 201-500 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9, 1 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Search · 201-500 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9, 1 new
You.com builds AI search and research infrastructure for developers and enterprises, having moved away from its original consumer search engine. It offers Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, an MCP server and the ARI research agent, and its platform routes each task across multiple data sources and models. Founded in 2020 in Palo Alto by former Salesforce researchers Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, it handles more than a billion queries a month for customers such as DuckDuckGo, Windsurf and Harvey and raised a $100 million Series C led by Cox Enterprises in 2025.
Bryan McCann · Co-founder & CTO · decision-maker
Richard Socher · Co-founder & CEO · decision-maker
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Open 610 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 7%

Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Platform

$200k – $250k per year · Senior · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Senior
Python
AI/ML
vLLM
Fine-tuning
SGLang
Tokenization
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Kapwing Company Blog

kapwing.com
kapwing.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Content Creation · Generative Video · Photo & Video Editing Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Content Creation · Generative Video · Photo & Video Editing Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 1
Generate full video projects from a single prompt using Kapwing. Join over 30 million modern creators who trust Kapwing to create, edit, and grow their content on every channel.
Julia Enthoven · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Eric Lu · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 614 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Senior AI Product Engineer (SF)

$180k – $225k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
C
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
Function Calling
LLM
Frontend
Redux
tRPC
QA
Cypress
Jest
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Ansa Antonishen

ansa.io
ansa.io · HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
ANSA ANTONISHEN PRESS ABOUT TLDR I've worked in the tech industry for 14+ years as a researcher,designer, and leader. Now I lead design and research teams forathenahealth.
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Open 633 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Mid-Level Full Stack Engineer - Backend Focused

≈ $131k – $257k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Middle
Go
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Blue-Green Deployment
AWS
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Open 633 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Full Stack Engineer - Backend Focused

≈ $161k – $298k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 6+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Senior
Go
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Blue-Green Deployment
AWS
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Created by Humans

createdbyhumans.ai
createdbyhumans.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Created by Humans is a licensing platform that lets authors and creators license copyrighted works to AI developers for training and reference uses. It is led by a team with a background in digital publishing, technology and data infrastructure, and hires engineers and partnerships staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 664 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Backend Software Engineer

$140k – $260k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
Radix UI
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Casa

getcasa.com
getcasa.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Kitchens, Bathrooms & Home Improvement · Local Services Marketplaces · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 19
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Kitchens, Bathrooms & Home Improvement · Local Services Marketplaces · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 19
Casa is a home services company building autonomous home care that combines a digital understanding of each home with skilled people to service it, founded by some of Uber's earliest employees. Its postings cover residential handymen in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose and San Mateo and an operations manager in Austin. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Senior Backend Engineer

≈ $150k – $278k per year (Estimated) · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
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Ranger

ranger.net
ranger.net · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Software Testing & QA · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Software Testing & QA · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Ranger builds quality assurance tools that let teams and AI agents verify work as fast as agents write it, so software ships quickly without losing quality. Customers such as Fanatics, Amplitude and Clay use it to close the gap between what agents build and what works in production. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Open 705 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago Long shot · 13%

Full-Stack Engineer (Experienced)

$130k – $200k per year · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Senior
C
Node JS
JavaScript
C
FFmpeg
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI
LLM
DevOps
Self-Healing
GCP
QA
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Spellbrush

spellbrush.com
spellbrush.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Game Development · Generative Image · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Game Development · Generative Image · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11, 1 new
Spellbrush builds generative models for anime art and the games made with them, including the illustration tool used by its community. Its research focuses on stylised character generation rather than photorealism. The studio ships its own titles alongside the underlying model work.
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 5 hours ago Visa sponsorship 2 years ago Long shot · 3%

Software Engineer

≈ $125k – $245k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States, Tokyo, Japan) · Full-Time · Middle · Japanese: C1
TypeScript
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Snowflake
AI/ML
Embeddings
Ray
Spark
Google AI Studio
DevOps
Amazon S3
GCP
Azure
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Orbital Sidekick

orbitalsidekick.com
orbitalsidekick.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Computer Vision · Earth Observation · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Computer Vision · Earth Observation · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Startup · Hiring 2
Know now, act fast. Your partner for best-in-class persistent global monitoring on the mission to optimize sustainable operations and security.
Daniel Katz · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Tushar Prabhakar · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Eddy Ho · Director
Donna See · Director
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Open 734 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago Long shot · 6%

Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer

$130k – $180k per year · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
Unix
Linux
GCP
AWS
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Endorsed

endorsed.com
endorsed.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Recruiting Software & ATS · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Recruiting Software & ATS · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
Endorsed is a recruiting security platform to catch fraud inside your ATS. No extra steps for recruiters or candidates required.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 735 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 2 years ago Long shot · 9%

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

≈ $130k – $225k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Avela Corporation

avela.com
avela.com · San Francisco · Boston · Texas · Houston · Supply Chain · Wholesale · Est. 2012 · Trust B · Hiring 8
San Francisco · Boston · Texas · Houston · Supply Chain · Wholesale · Est. 2012 · Trust B · Hiring 8
Avela Corporation is an American global sourcing company that helps businesses source products and streamline their supply chains. It offers sourcing and supply chain efficiency services to companies seeking lower costs and better return on investment. The company is based in the United States.
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Open 752 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 2 years ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer - Full Stack (Data/Platform Heavy, Senior Level)

≈ $176k – $326k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Boston, San Francisco, United States) · Senior
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Amazon Aurora
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
Chakra UI
React.js
DevOps
AWS CDK
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
AWS
QA
Playwright
Jest
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Backend Developer Jobs in San Francisco
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