Backend Developer Jobs in United States

Backend Developer jobs in United States hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $232,395/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Giga

giga.ai
Giga builds enterprise AI agents for customer support that resolve complex conversations across chat, voice, and email — deployed in weeks, human-like at scale.
giga.ai • San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 min ago 5 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer

$180k – $500k per year • Staff+ • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
TypeScript
Python
Django
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Vite
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
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LangChain

langchain.com
LangChain is an AI technology company that provides open-source frameworks and developer tools for building applications powered by large language models and AI agents. Its ecosystem includes LangChain for agent development, LangGraph for workflow orchestration, and LangSmith for testing, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment. The platform helps developers and enterprises create reliable generative AI applications by connecting models, tools, data sources, and business workflows.
langchain.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Deployed Engineer, Professional Services

$122k – $244k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Las Vegas, Nashville, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
Transformers
Post-training
SFT
Axolotl
RLHF
TRL
Unsloth
DPO
Hugging Face
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Monday.com
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Deployed Engineer, Professional Services (NYC)

$140k – $279k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
Transformers
Post-training
SFT
Axolotl
RLHF
TRL
Unsloth
DPO
Hugging Face
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Monday.com
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Deployed Engineer, Professional Services (San Francisco)

$124k – $298k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
Transformers
Post-training
SFT
Axolotl
RLHF
TRL
Unsloth
DPO
Hugging Face
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Monday.com
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Draftwise

draftwise.com
Draftwise is contract drafting, review, and negotiation AI powered by your legal knowledge. Draftwise executes complex drafting, review, and search workflows—drawing from your organization's best guidance, precedent, and language—directly within Word.
draftwise.com • New York • London • Artificial Intelligence • Professional Services • Legal Services • 51-200 employees
New York • London • Artificial Intelligence • Professional Services • Legal Services • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Back End Software Engineer (US)

$140k – $190k per year • Senior • 5+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Java
Java
JOOQ
Databases
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Keras
NLP
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
Docker
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Svix

svix.com
Svix is the enterprise-ready webhook platform delivering billions of webhooks every month for fast-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies including Brex, Benchling, and Drata. Send and receive webhooks at scale with retries, signature verification, and a managed dashboard.
svix.com • San Francisco • Machine Learning • Hardware • Cybersecurity • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Machine Learning • Hardware • Cybersecurity • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 days ago

Rust Backend Engineer

$130k – $180k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Rust
DevOps
Fly.io
GitHub
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 days ago

Full-stack Engineer

$130k – $180k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Fly.io
GitHub
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Manulife

manulife.com
Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We have more than 38,000 employees, over 115,000 agents serving ~33 million customers worldwide, and over $1.3 trillion in assets under management and administration.
manulife.com • HQ: Toronto, Canada • Financial Services • Insurance • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Financial Services • Insurance • 1001-5000 employees
Verified live · 23 min ago 5 days ago

Summer Intern 2027 - Software Engineering

$53k – $70k per year • Intern • Remote/Hybrid (Boston, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
JavaScript
Python
DevOps
Bitbucket
Git
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Top 25% payVerified live · 23 min ago 9 days ago

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

$107k – $200k per year • Senior • 8+ years expIn office (Boston, United States, Waterloo, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C#
TypeScript
C#
ASP.NET Core
Entity Framework Core
DevOps
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitHub
Azure
Azure AKS
Docker
Kubernetes
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Top 25% payVerified live · 23 min ago 23 days ago

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

$127k – $236k per year • Lead • 8+ years expIn office (Waterloo, Toronto, Canada, Boston, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Java
SQL
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
Azure SQL Database
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Azure
Azure AKS
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
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Hudl

hudl.com
Hudl is a sports performance analysis company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, and founded in 2006. The company provides video capture hardware, cloud video review, statistics, and analytics tools that let coaches and athletes study games and training sessions. Its products are used by more than 200,000 teams worldwide, from youth and high school programs to professional clubs and national federations.
hudl.com • HQ: Lincoln, United States • Fan Engagement • Video & Image Processing Software • Software • Athlete Training • Sports Analytics • Sports • Est. 2006
HQ: Lincoln, United States • Fan Engagement • Video & Image Processing Software • Software • Athlete Training • Sports Analytics • Sports • Est. 2006
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$140k – $232k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Lincoln • Remote (United States) • Senior
C
JavaScript
C#
TypeScript
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
GraphQL
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
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Datakind

datakind.org
Tackling the world's toughest challenges with data science and AI. August 3-6: SHEEO's Higher Education Policy Conference (Chicago, IL).
datakind.org • Analytics Platforms • Higher Education • Data & Analytics
Analytics Platforms • Higher Education • Data & Analytics
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Full Stack Software Engineer

$85k – $90k per year • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
PHP
Python
SQL
TypeScript
PHP
Laravel
AI/ML
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
Recommender Systems
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Git
GitHub Actions
GitHub
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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Origin

originfresh.in
Origin is a fresh farm produce D2C brand that caters to consumers by providings farm-fresh, hand-picked, premium products and Sri Lankan Origin spices and fruits from all around the world.
originfresh.in • Bengaluru • Organic Food • Commerce • Online Groceries • Est. 1983
Bengaluru • Organic Food • Commerce • Online Groceries • Est. 1983
Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

$200k – $320k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
Rust
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Red Teaming
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Open 118 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Software Engineer

$170k – $360k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
Time Series Forecasting
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Datadog
eBPF
Honeycomb
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SiPhox Health

siphoxhealth.com
Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
siphoxhealth.com • Boston • Lasers & Photonics • Sensors • Hardware
Boston • Lasers & Photonics • Sensors • Hardware
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Full-Stack Software Development Lead

$80k – $120k per year • Equity • Lead • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
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Pinterest

pinterest.com
Pinterest is an American visual discovery platform founded in 2010 where people save and organise images, products and ideas into themed boards. Unlike feed-based social networks it is built around planning future intent, so users arrive researching a kitchen renovation, an outfit or a holiday rather than to follow friends, which makes the audience unusually valuable to advertisers. Headquartered in San Francisco and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2019, the company earns nearly all of its revenue from advertising and has invested heavily in shoppable pins, visual search and AI-driven recommendations.
pinterest.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Commerce • Advertising • Internet Services • Media & Entertainment • Digital Media • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Commerce • Advertising • Internet Services • Media & Entertainment • Digital Media • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, TwoTwenty

$216k – $404k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 6+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 7 days ago

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Platform

$201k – $377k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Java
Python
Scala
AI/ML
Flink
Ignite
PyTorch
Ray
Spark
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 8 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Storage Services

$195k – $365k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years expRemote/Hybrid (New York, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
C++
Java
Python
SQL
Databases
TiDB
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Clearest Health

clearesthealth.com
Clearest Health helps independent healthcare practices recover out-of-network revenue through IDR appeals under the No Surprises Act. Verified benchmarks, audit-ready disputes, zero risk.
clearesthealth.com • New York • Audit • 11-50 employees
New York • Audit • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 min ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$150k – $250k per year • Equity 0.5–5% • Senior • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
Databases
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Hallucination
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
GPT-4
Frontend
React.js
Mantine
React Router
shadcn/ui
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
AWS
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
Cloudflare
Vercel
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GitHub
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
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Wikimedia Foundation

wikimediafoundation.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects, among the world's most popular websites. Established in 2003, Wikimedia is headquartered in San Francisco, California, ...
wikimediafoundation.org • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Education • Web Portals • Internet Services
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Education • Web Portals • Internet Services
Verified live · 9 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform Team

$117k – $181k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
PHP
PHP
Drupal
WordPress
Databases
MySQL
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$92k – $144k per year • Middle • 1+ year expNew York • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Middle
JavaScript
PHP
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Verified live · 9 hours ago 2 months ago

Software Engineer III, Product Safety & Integrity

$92k – $144k per year • Middle • 1+ year exp • Remote (United States) • Contractor • Middle
JavaScript
PHP
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Altera

altera.com
Altera is a American semiconductor company that specializes in manufacturing programmable logic devices, primary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), System-on-a-Chip (SoC) FPGAs, and related design software. Originally founded in 1983, the company pioneered reconfigurable hardware before being acquired by Intel in 2015 and later re-established as an independent, standalone enterprise. Its high-performance hardware and intellectual property cores are widely used across data centers, telecommunications, automotive systems, defense, and edge AI applications.
altera.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Electronic Components • Hardware • Semiconductors • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: San Jose, United States • Electronic Components • Hardware • Semiconductors • 1001-5000 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 5 days ago

Senior Static Timing Analysis Methodology Lead Engineer / Technical Lead

$187k – $270k per year • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 7 days ago

Transceivers & Protocol IP Application Engineer

$149k – $216k per year • In office (San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
C++
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
VHDL
Chips/EDA
Siemens ModelSim
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 7 days ago

Senior Backend Design Automation Engineer — New Process Node Enablement

$149k – $216k per year • Senior • 8+ years expIn office (San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
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Reframe

joinreframeapp.com
Neuroscience-backed techniques to cut back on drinking. Our app helps you drink less, rewire habits, and create lasting change for a healthier life.
joinreframeapp.com • Atlanta • Alpharetta • Health Care • Mental Health • Digital Health • 51-200 employees
Atlanta • Alpharetta • Health Care • Mental Health • Digital Health • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Fullstack Engineer

$90k – $140k per year • Middle • 3+ years expAtlanta • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Prisma
Sequelize
TypeORM
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
DynamoDB
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
GitHub Actions
WebSockets
GitHub
QA
Cypress
Jest
Playwright
Vitest
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Careforce

careforce.ai
Autonomous AI workforce to find, engage, and coordinate patient care 3x faster with 6x ROI. Close critical care gaps, scale operations efficiently, generate accurate reports and get a single view of the patient across all services to chat with.
careforce.ai • San Francisco • Oakland • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health • 51-200 employees
San Francisco • Oakland • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Fullstack Engineer

$120k – $180k per year • Senior • 7+ years expOakland • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Supabase
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
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Sesame AI

sesame.com
Sesame AI is a company founded in 2022 that develops conversational speech models with unusually natural timing and prosody. Its demonstration voices drew wide attention for sounding present in a conversation rather than reading text aloud, and it released a base speech model openly. The company is also building lightweight eyewear intended to keep an assistant available throughout the day.
sesame.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2022
Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 5 days ago

Software Engineer - Backend

$175k – $280k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
gRPC
Kubernetes
WebSockets
GCP
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Open 119 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

$175k – $280k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
KServe
PyTorch
Ray
Ray Serve
Seldon Core
TorchServe
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Terraform
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Open 223 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Software Engineer, Character Platform & Tools

$175k – $280k per year • Equity • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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G2

g2.com
G2 is a peer-to-peer review site headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They are one of the world's largest tech marketplace where businesses can discover, review, and manage the technology they need to reach their potential.
g2.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Marketplaces
HQ: Chicago, United States • Marketplaces
Verified live · 11 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$155k – $185k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (Austin, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Fine-tuning
Anthropic
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Trunk-Based Development
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Top 25% payVerified live · 11 hours ago 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

$185k – $225k per year • Senior • 6+ years expChicagoAustin • Remote (United States, Israel) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
Anthropic
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Trunk-Based Development
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Haus

haus.io
Make smarter enterprise marketing investments with Haus’ AI-powered causal marketing platform and expert guidance.
haus.io • New York • Seattle • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence
New York • Seattle • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence
Top 25% payVerified live · 5 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - Data Onboarding - Seattle

$180k – $220k per year • Senior • 4+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Seattle, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Databases
Databricks
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Terraform
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Top 25% payVerified live · 5 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - Data Onboarding - San Francisco

$180k – $220k per year • Senior • 4+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Databases
Databricks
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Terraform
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Top 25% payVerified live · 5 hours ago 8 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer - Data Platform- Seattle

$240k – $260k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Seattle, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
Python
SQL
Databases
Apache Iceberg
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
Airflow
dbt
Spark
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
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Lumentum

lumentum.com
Lumentum is a technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, and was established as an independent entity in 2015 following a spin-off from JDS Uniphase. The company designs and manufactures optical and photonic products, including lasers for industrial manufacturing, optical transceivers for data centers, and 3D sensing components for consumer electronics. It operates a global network of manufacturing and research facilities, serving customers in the telecommunications, cloud networking, and industrial markets worldwide.
lumentum.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Semiconductors • Data Centers • Information Technology • Optical Communications • Telecommunications • Sensors • Hardware • Lasers & Photonics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
HQ: San Jose, United States • Semiconductors • Data Centers • Information Technology • Optical Communications • Telecommunications • Sensors • Hardware • Lasers & Photonics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 hours ago 5 days ago

Manufacturing Process Development Engineer-Back End Process

$90k – $166k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (Greensboro, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Design
AutoCAD
SolidWorks
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Open 95 daysVerified live · 7 hours ago 4 months ago

Staff Process Integration Engineer

$162k – $304k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years expIn office (San Jose, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
C++
MATLAB
Visual Basic
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Keeper

keepertax.com
keepertax.com • San Francisco • Personal Finance • Financial Services • FinTech • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Personal Finance • Financial Services • FinTech • 11-50 employees
5 days ago

Software Engineer

$135k – $165k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
SQL
TypeScript
Node JS
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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Top 25% pay 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$165k – $195k per year • Equity 0.2–0.4% • Senior • 3+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
SQL
Node JS
TypeScript
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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Backend Developer Jobs in United States
Frequently asked questions
How many Backend Developer jobs in United States are available on Alion?
There are currently 7747 active listings from 1529 hiring companies on Alion, refreshed daily.
What salary do Backend Developer jobs in United States pay?
The average salary is around $232,395 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Backend Developer jobs in United States?
Yes, many of these roles offer remote or hybrid work, and you can filter listings by remote, relocation and visa sponsorship.
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