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 $283,127/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Accord

inaccord.com
Transform sales best practices into unavoidable playbooks. Empower reps to win like top sellers with AI-powered revenue execution. Increase deal size by +40%.
inaccord.com • San Francisco • Professional Services • Human Resources • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Professional Services • Human Resources • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 29 min ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

$170k – $240k per year • Middle • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Event Horizon Labs

ehl.markets
The AI lab for the science of markets.. From algo trading to reasoning-driven investing.
ehl.markets • San Francisco • Financial AI • Financial Services • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees • Est. 2024
San Francisco • Financial AI • Financial Services • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees • Est. 2024
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Founding Software Engineer

$150k – $200k per year • Equity 1–3% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Founding Research Engineer

$150k – $200k per year • Equity 1–3% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
PyTorch
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Ohm

ohm.ai
Ohm is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for hardware engineering labs to accelerate the development, testing, and validation of physical products. Designed for industries such as automotive, aerospace, battery manufacturing, consumer electronics, and data center infrastructure, the platform automatically ingests, normalizes, and contextualizes multi-modal test data across disparate lab equipment and supplier formats.
ohm.ai • San Francisco • Hardware • Science & Engineering • Test & Measurement • Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco • Hardware • Science & Engineering • Test & Measurement • Artificial Intelligence
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Full Stack Engineer

$148k – $302k per year (Estimated)In office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
LLM
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, Battery Engineering

$127k – $259k per year (Estimated)San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
AI Agents
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$127k – $259k per year (Estimated)San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
AI Agents
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Truewind

truewind.ai
Truewind AI agents convert source financial data into GL-ready entries, helping accounting teams close faster with stronger controls.
truewind.ai • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • Audit
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • Audit
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$170k – $220k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Senior • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
Edge AI
OpenAI
Frontend
Material UI
Next.js
React.js
Vue.js
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Agent Platform

$220k – $260k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

$200k – $250k per year • Equity 0.5–1% • Staff+ • 11+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
Edge AI
OpenAI
Frontend
Material UI
Next.js
React.js
Vue.js
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Rivet

rivet.dev
Rivet is an open-source backend infrastructure platform engineered for stateful workloads, AI agent orchestration, and real-time interactive applications. Its core technology, Rivet Actors, provides long-running, lightweight execution primitives that co-locate in-memory state, WebSockets, queues, and durable execution workflows into a unified runtime.
rivet.dev • Information Technology • Database Management
Information Technology • Database Management
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$130k – $260k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
FoundationDB
NATS
PostgreSQL
SQLite
DevOps
WebSockets
GitHub
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer

$80k – $150k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
C++
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
FoundationDB
NATS
PostgreSQL
SQLite
DevOps
WebSockets
GitHub
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Top 25% pay 17 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$130k – $260k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
FoundationDB
NATS
PostgreSQL
SQLite
DevOps
WebSockets
GitHub
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Simbie AI

simbie.ai
Simbie AI is a healthcare technology platform providing clinically trained AI voice agents and automated administrative workflows for medical practices, clinics, and health systems. The platform operates as an AI-powered medical staff assistant, handling 24/7 patient communications - including inbound scheduling, outbound follow-up calls, prescription refills, pre-visit intake, and post-operative check-ins.
simbie.ai • New York • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • AI Agents • Digital Health • 11-50 employees
New York • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • AI Agents • Digital Health • 11-50 employees
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

$110k – $150k per year • Middle • 3+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Mobile
Twilio
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Tasklet

tasklet.ai
Accelerate your entire company with AI agents you can delegate real work to. Connect your tools, automate workflows 24x7, and share agents & context across your team.
tasklet.ai • San Francisco • Embedded Systems • AI Agents • Cybersecurity • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Embedded Systems • AI Agents • Cybersecurity • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer — AI Infra

$225k – $425k per year • Equity 0.2–0.6% • Staff+ • 11+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Principal
Kubernetes
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Fresco

fresco-ai.com
fresco-ai.com • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Founding Software Engineer

$100k – $200k per year • Equity 0.1–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
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Imagine AI

imagineai.me
Imagine AI builds B2B content for your entire team so prospects find you, trust you, and book meetings before your competitors even get a reply. Used by Forbes 30 Under 30 founders & Fortune 500 CEOs. Backed by Y Combinator.
imagineai.me • San Francisco • Advertising • Content Creation • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Advertising • Content Creation • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Founding Engineer (Full Stack)

$140k – $200k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Junior • 1+ year expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Neo4j
Supabase
Frontend
Next.js
DevOps
Git
Vercel
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Veryfi

veryfi.com
Veryfi is a Y Combinator-backed Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and financial technology company based in San Mateo, California. The company provides developer-first AI APIs and mobile/web SDKs (Veryfi Lens) that automatically transform unstructured business documents - such as receipts, invoices, W-2/W-9 forms, checks, bank statements, and credit cards - into structured JSON data in real time.
veryfi.com • HQ: San Mateo, United States • Software • Billing & Invoicing • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Software • Billing & Invoicing • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Python Engineer

$90k – $130k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Senior • 3+ years expSan Mateo • Remote (United States, Colombia) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
Python
Django
Flask
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Docker
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Pax

paxai.com
Pax AI is an AI-native global trade control tower for duty drawback, tariff recovery, customs audits, FTZ, reconciliation, and post-entry compliance.
paxai.com • San Francisco • Audit
San Francisco • Audit
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer (Senior)

$175k – $220k per year • Senior • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer (Early Career)

$130k – $150k per year • Equity 0.1–0.4% • Junior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Junior
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
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Top 25% pay 21 day ago

Software Engineer (Early Career)

$130k – $170k per year • Junior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Junior
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
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Rollstack

rollstack.com
rollstack.com • New York • Seattle • Software • Data & Analytics • 51-200 employees
New York • Seattle • Software • Data & Analytics • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer (TypeScript) - Eastern US/ Eastern Canada

$140k – $240k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States, India, Germany, Canada, Morocco) • Full-Time • Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
Node JS
Prisma
AI/ML
Gemini
LangChain
Langfuse
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
shadcn/ui
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
ArgoCD
AWS
CI/CD
Kubernetes
SigNoz
Analytics
Tableau
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Monumint

monumint.com
Monumint is a company that offers services and technology solutions related to digital assets and blockchain based financial products. It focuses on tools for creating managing and trading tokenized assets in environments that emphasize regulatory compliance and risk control.
monumint.com • San Francisco • DeFi • Blockchain & Crypto • Asset Tokenization
San Francisco • DeFi • Blockchain & Crypto • Asset Tokenization
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

$150k – $200k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Node JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Marketing
Salesforce
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Full Stack Engineer

$150k – $200k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
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Top 25% pay 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer

$200k – $250k per year • Equity • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
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Thera

getthera.com
Thera is a Y Combinator-backed financial technology and human resource operations platform built for global teams and distributed enterprises. The platform unifies global payroll, accounts payable/receivable (AP/AR), international contractor management, and Employer of Record (EOR) services into a single unified workspace. Through its infrastructure, Thera enables companies to run US 50-state W-2 payroll, onboard full-time employees and international contractors in 135+ countries with locally compliant contracts, manage spend, and administer health benefits.
getthera.com • New York • 51-200 employees
New York • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$120k – $250k per year • Senior • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Kotlin
TypeScript
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Yn

yn.app
Y/n - Fanfiction but you're the main character. Play fics, write your own romance novels, or discover 1M+ interactive stories.
yn.app • San Francisco • Digital Goods • LLM & Generative AI • Media & Entertainment • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Digital Goods • LLM & Generative AI • Media & Entertainment • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Founding Engineer

$120k – $300k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time
Vercel
GitHub
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer

$120k – $300k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • Junior • 1+ year expSan Francisco • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Junior
Recommender Systems
DevOps
Vercel
GitHub
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Ventura

ventura.ai
Ventura automates quoting and order entry for distributors, helping sales teams turn emails, PDFs, and other purchase orders into accurate quotes and orders in their ERP system.
ventura.ai • San Francisco • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) • 1-10 employees
San Francisco • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) • 1-10 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Founding Engineer

$140k – $220k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Context Engineering
Frontend
Next.js
DevOps
GCP
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Relling

relling.co
American manufacturing, automated. AI robot workcells qualified off-site — live on your floor in weeks, not quarters.
relling.co • San Francisco • Industrial Automation • Robotics • Industrial Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
San Francisco • Industrial Automation • Robotics • Industrial Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Perception

$120k – $170k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
DINOv2
Quantization
TensorRT
Robotics
Localization
Perception
ROS
ROS2
Imitation Learning
Motion Planning
Sim-to-Real
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer Intern

Intern • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Intern
Python
C++
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
DINOv2
PyTorch
LLM Evaluation
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Diffusion Policy
OpenVLA
ROS
ROS2
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Flick

flick.art
Direct short films with AI. Flick is an AI filmmaking studio for cinematic stories — consistent characters, coherent scenes, and end-to-end creative control.
flick.art • Sunnyvale • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Film Production
Sunnyvale • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Film Production
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Full-stack Engineer

$100k – $200k per year • Equity 0.1–1% • Senior • 3+ years expSunnyvale • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
DevOps
CI/CD
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Confident AI

confident-ai.com
Confident AI is the AI quality platform for enterprise teams to standardize AI evals and observability across the org — one consistent bar for how every team measures and monitors their AI.
confident-ai.com • San Francisco • Data & Analytics • Software • Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco • Data & Analytics • Software • Artificial Intelligence
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Founding Open Source Growth Engineer

$150k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Equity 0.5–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Go
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
DeepEval
LLM
DevOps
Platform Engineering
GitHub
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$150k – $307k per year (Estimated)In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Go
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
DeepEval
LLM
DevOps
Platform Engineering
GitHub
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Databricks

databricks.com
Databricks is an American software company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow at the University of California, Berkeley. Its data intelligence platform unifies data engineering, warehousing, governance, analytics and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture that stores open table formats in a customer's own cloud object storage. Headquartered in San Francisco and available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, the platform is used by tens of thousands of organisations to build pipelines, dashboards and production AI applications.
databricks.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Machine Learning • Big Data • Data Engineering • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Data Warehousing • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013
HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Machine Learning • Big Data • Data Engineering • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Data Warehousing • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013
Verified live · 1 hour ago 5 months ago

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

$47k – $102k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • 12+ years exp • Remote (United States, India) • Principal
Databricks
AI/ML
Hadoop
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 10 days ago

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

$176k – $316k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Senior
JavaScript
Python
Scala
TypeScript
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Spark
Frontend
Bootstrap
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 10 days ago

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

$156k – $259k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years expWashington • Remote (United States) • Senior
JavaScript
Python
Scala
TypeScript
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Spark
Frontend
Bootstrap
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
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Backend Developer Jobs in San Francisco
Frequently asked questions
How many Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco are available on Alion?
There are currently 1631 active listings from 419 hiring companies on Alion, refreshed daily.
What salary do Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco pay?
The average salary is around $283,127 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco?
Yes, many of these roles offer remote or hybrid work, and you can filter listings by remote, relocation and visa sponsorship.
How do I apply for Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco?
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