Backend Developer Salary in New York

Backend Developer jobs in New York hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $256,125/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Presence

presencelearning.com
To empower everyone who serves children with diverse needs.
presencelearning.com • Education • Health Care • Digital Health
Education • Health Care • Digital Health
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Marketing Web Developer

$115k – $135k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
JavaScript
PHP
PHP
WordPress
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Rest API
Analytics
A/B Testing
Design
Figma
Marketing
GA4
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Vetcove

vetcove.com
Serving over 18,000 veterinary hospitals nationwide, Vetcove is an eCommerce platform that enables veterinary hospitals to research products, compare prices and stock across vendors, and purchase from one central location.
vetcove.com • New York • Health Care • Farming & Agriculture • Veterinary Medicine
New York • Health Care • Farming & Agriculture • Veterinary Medicine
Verified live · 8 hours ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

$170k – $230k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Python
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
ClickHouse
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
React.js
React Query
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Git
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Verified live · 8 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$115k – $180k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Python
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
React.js
Redux
Webpack
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Git
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Tavily

tavily.com
Tavily is a developer infrastructure company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and founded in 2023. The company runs a search API built for large language model applications, returning ranked and summarised web results in a form agents can consume directly rather than raw pages of markup. It is used by teams building research assistants and autonomous agents, and integrates with common orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
tavily.com • HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Internet Services • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Search Engines • Est. 2023
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Internet Services • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Search Engines • Est. 2023
Verified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, Ecosystem

$119k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Relocation • Internship • Middle
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
pgvector
Pinecone
Qdrant
Weaviate
AI/ML
AI Agents
CrewAI
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
Context Engineering
OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
RAG
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Verified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Billing

$149k – $269k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years expRemote/Hybrid (New York, United States) • Contractor • Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
RAG
DevOps
Amazon Kinesis
Cybersecurity
Auth0
Okta
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Verified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise

$120k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
pgvector
Pinecone
Qdrant
Weaviate
AI/ML
AI Agents
RAG
Context Engineering
CrewAI
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
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Horizon3

horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai is a cybersecurity company that specializes in autonomous threat detection and proactive security validation. Its flagship platform, NodeZero, acts as an autonomous penetration testing solution that continuously discovers, tests, and verifies exploitable vulnerabilities across an organization's internal and external infrastructure. By simulating real-world attacker tactics, Horizon3.ai enables IT and security teams to fix critical security gaps before adversaries can exploit them.
horizon3.ai • Chicago • Amsterdam • San Francisco • Las Vegas • Seattle • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Penetration Testing
Chicago • Amsterdam • San Francisco • Las Vegas • Seattle • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Penetration Testing
Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Back-End (Pentest Platform)

$200k – $235k per year • Equity • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Go
Python
SQL
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
Neo4j
AI/ML
Flink
DevOps
AWS
Datadog
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Platform Engineering
Amazon Kinesis
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Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 5 days ago

Senior Engineer, Back-End (Security Controls)

$200k – $270k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
Neo4j
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Security Controls

$188k – $209k per year • Equity • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
Neo4j
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Carbon Black
Crowdstrike
Microsoft Defender
SentinelOne
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Roadie

roadie.com
Roadie is a technology company that provides a platform for same-day delivery. The company's platform connects businesses and individuals with drivers who can deliver packages and goods. Roadie's platform is designed to be easy to use and reliable.
roadie.com • Cybersecurity • Transportation & Logistics • Courier Services
Cybersecurity • Transportation & Logistics • Courier Services
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Full Stack Engineer

$68k – $192k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Middle
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
CircleCI
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Verified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Senior Full Stack Engineer

$91k – $222k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
C#
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
CircleCI
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Propel

propel.app
Propel is the simplest way to check your EBT balance, save money, get updates about your benefits, and so much more. Download the #1 EBT app for free. Trusted by over 5 million Americans.
propel.app • New York
New York
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Healthcare

$170k – $230k per year • Senior • 5+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Python
Flask
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
Vue.js
Mobile
PassKit
DevOps
AWS
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 20 days ago

Senior Full Stack Engineer

$170k – $240k per year • Equity • Senior • New York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Python
Flask
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
Vue.js
Mobile
PassKit
DevOps
AWS
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Open 745 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)

$240k – $270k per year • Staff+ • 10+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
JavaScript
Python
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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 · 23 min ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

$194k – $364k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Contractor • Staff
JavaScript
Databases
Databricks
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Verified live · 23 min ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Sales Data & Agents

$196k – $366k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
Function Calling
Human-in-the-Loop
Marketing
HubSpot
Salesforce
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Verified live · 23 min ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration

$198k – $372k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
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Pogo

joinpogo.com
Pogo is a web-based service (joinpogo.com) that operates a consumer-facing website leveraging extensive third‑party tracking, analytics, forms and marketing integrations. The site uses cookies and providers such as Google, Meta, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Typeform, Contentsquare, Cloudflare, TikTok and PostHog to power load‑balancing, analytics, form handling, personalization and targeted advertising. The available information is focused on cookie consent, tracking categories (necessary, preferences, statistics, marketing) and multiple third‑party vendors used to optimize the website and marketing/ads performance.
joinpogo.com • Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2020
Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2020
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Full Stack Engineer

$96k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Junior
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
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2 months ago

Full Stack Engineer

$96k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Junior
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
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STR

str.com
STR (formerly Smith Travel Research) is a global leader in data benchmarking, market analytics, and performance insights for the hospitality industry. Operating as a subsidiary of CoStar Group, the company aggregates confidential market data - tracking supply, demand, occupancy rates, and revenue per available room (RevPAR) across tens of thousands of hotels worldwide.
str.com • HQ: Woburn, United States • Travel & Tourism • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: Woburn, United States • Travel & Tourism • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees
Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Autonomy Algorithms Senior Software Engineer

$134k – $184k per year • Senior • 5+ years expDayton • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Java
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GitLab
Robotics
MAVLink
Management
Confluence
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Autonomy Algorithms Senior Software Engineer

$134k – $184k per year • Senior • 5+ years expArlington • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Java
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GitLab
Robotics
MAVLink
Management
Confluence
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Autonomy Algorithms Senior Software Engineer

$134k – $184k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States, Morocco) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Java
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GitLab
Robotics
MAVLink
Management
Confluence
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Stardex

stardex.com
Best AI recruitment software with built-in CRM for executive search firms. Stardex combines the best ats system with AI recruiting tools, candidate tracking, and client management in one platform. Built for recruiters and agents of recruiters.
stardex.com • Amsterdam • New York • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
Amsterdam • New York • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Forward Deploy Engineer (FDE)

$60k – $90k per year • Equity 0.1–0.8% • Amsterdam • Remote (United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Canada) • Full-Time
SQL
TypeScript
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Coast

coastpay.com
Coast is a SaaS company focused on modernising how businesses manage and pay for company spending, with a particular emphasis on teams that need practical controls in the real world. From its positioning and product focus, Coast appears to combine software with payment capabilities to help organisations issue company cards, track spend as it happens, and reduce the manual work that often sits between employees, finance teams, and accounting systems. The underlying problem it tackles is familiar in many companies, especially those with distributed teams or operational staff, where purchases happen quickly and receipts, approvals, and coding to budgets can become messy and time consuming.
coastpay.com • New York • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • 51-200 employees
New York • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Design Engineer, Product

$150k – $215k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Go
Node JS
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$150k – $215k per year • Senior • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
Mobile
Expo
React Native
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Confido

confidotech.com
Confido is the AI infrastructure for CPG brands, providing a single source of truth for accounting, finance, sales, and operations teams.
confidotech.com • New York • Consumer Goods • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
New York • Consumer Goods • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Software Engineer

$200k – $230k per year • Equity 0–0.1% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

$300k – $330k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Staff+ • 11+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$210k – $280k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Crouton

usecrouton.com
Crouton maps who is working on what, in what role, at what allocation, and how that changes over time. The operating layer for COOs, chiefs of staff, and ops leads.
usecrouton.com • New York • 11-50 employees • Est. 2024
New York • 11-50 employees • Est. 2024
Top 25% payVerified live · 21 min ago 4 days ago

Founding Engineer

$160k – $220k per year • Equity 0.5–5% • Junior • 1+ year expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Axle

axle.insure
Axle is a financial technology platform that provides universal insurance verification infrastructure for lenders, platforms, and automotive businesses. Headquartered in New York City, the company offers developer-friendly APIs that enable users to instantly connect and verify auto insurance coverage directly through their policyholders. By automating manual verification workflows, it reduces fraud risk, streamlines onboarding, and improves conversion rates for modern financial products.
axle.insure • HQ: New York, United States • Financial Services • FinTech • Insurance • 51-200 employees
HQ: New York, United States • Financial Services • FinTech • Insurance • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Staff Engineer

$215k – $270k per year • Equity 0.2–0.4% • Staff+ • 6+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Self-Healing
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TrueBiz

truebiz.io
TrueBiz provides automated business identity verification solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintechs, and B2B platforms. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York City, the company leverages web scraping and AI to instantly verify corporate details, cross-check public records, and streamline the Know Your Business (KYB) merchant onboarding process.
truebiz.io • HQ: New York, United States • Financial Services • Software • FinTech • Data & Analytics • 11-50 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: New York, United States • Financial Services • Software • FinTech • Data & Analytics • 11-50 employees • Est. 2022
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Core Team

$125k – $180k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Senior • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
Django
Celery
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
AWS Fargate
CI/CD
CloudFormation
Git
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Datadog
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Terraform
Amazon CloudWatch
API Gateway
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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
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Staff Engineer

$100k – $250k per year • Equity 0–0.5% • Staff+ • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
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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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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer - NYC

$120k – $250k per year • Senior • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Kotlin
TypeScript
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Banner

withbanner.com
Banner is a specialized software company providing a capital expenditure management platform tailored for commercial real estate owners, operators, and developers. The platform centralizes multi-year capital planning, vendor bidding, automated lender draws, and project execution while integrating with major property management and accounting systems.
withbanner.com • Commercial Real Estate • Real Estate • PropTech
Commercial Real Estate • Real Estate • PropTech
Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

$141k – $234k per year (Estimated) • Equity 0.2–0.4% • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Frontend
React.js
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Kilvin

kilvin.ai
Kilvin is a Y Combinator-backed, AI-native software platform and development service that builds custom internal tools, dashboards, and automated workflows for enterprise teams. The platform combines an embedded AI build agent with smart file indexing, connected databases, and fine-grained access controls, enabling the rapid creation of tailored applications without requiring companies to replace their existing software stack.
kilvin.ai • Denver • New York • 51-200 employees
Denver • New York • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 21 min ago 4 days ago

Forward-Deployed Engineer

$120k – $180k per year • Equity 0–0.5% • Middle • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Node JS
Node JS
Prisma
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Git
AWS
Terraform
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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

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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Raycaster

raycaster.ai
Raycaster builds benchmark data, evaluation harnesses, and reference agents for consequential work across documents, spreadsheets, and tools.
raycaster.ai • New York • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
New York • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Founding Engineer (In-Person)

$100k – $160k per year • Equity 2–10% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Go
Rust
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Embeddings
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
GitHub
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Backend Developer Salary in New York
Frequently asked questions
How many Backend Developer jobs in New York are available on Alion?
There are currently 1318 active listings from 456 hiring companies on Alion, refreshed daily.
What salary do Backend Developer jobs in New York pay?
The average salary is around $256,125 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Backend Developer jobs in New York?
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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