Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco

Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $272,233/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Mirendil

mirendil.com
mirendil.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Research Labs · Foundation Models · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 12
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Research Labs · Foundation Models · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 12
Mirendil is a frontier AI research company that trains its own models end to end and aims to make AI research and development available across scientific disciplines. It hires members of technical staff for distributed systems, infrastructure, pretraining, kernels and recursive self-improvement. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems Engineer

$300k – $400k per year · Equity · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
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Charles Schwab

schwab.com
schwab.com · HQ: Westlake, United States · Cryptocurrencies · Financial Services · Commercial & Retail Banks · Asset Management & Funds · Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1971 · Trust A · Hiring 220, 92 new
HQ: Westlake, United States · Cryptocurrencies · Financial Services · Commercial & Retail Banks · Asset Management & Funds · Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1971 · Trust A · Hiring 220, 92 new
Charles Schwab is a financial services company headquartered in Westlake, Texas, near Fort Worth, offering brokerage and retirement accounts, online trading through the thinkorswim platform, banking, wealth management, financial planning and custody services for independent investment advisors. Founded in 1971 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it serves retail investors through branches nationwide and runs large operations and technology centers in Austin, Southlake, Omaha, Phoenix, El Paso and Hyderabad. It hires software and DevOps engineers, data engineers, product managers, financial consultants, client service representatives, risk, audit and compliance professionals.
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Quantitative Software Engineer - Research Platform

$175k – $230k per year · Equity · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Julia
Python
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Management
Agile
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Quantitative Software Engineer - Research Data and Models (PL)

$195k – $250k per year · Equity · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Julia
Python
Databases
Snowflake
DevOps
OpenShift
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Brex

brex.com
brex.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Services · Digital Banks & Neobanks · Procurement & Spend Management · Cards & Card Issuing · Est. 2017 · Trust B · Hiring 237, 10 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Services · Digital Banks & Neobanks · Procurement & Spend Management · Cards & Card Issuing · Est. 2017 · Trust B · Hiring 237, 10 new
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Brex is a financial technology company providing unified spend management and financial services for startups and enterprise businesses. The company offers an integrated platform featuring corporate credit cards, business accounts, automated expense management, bill pay, and corporate travel booking. By combining financial software with real-time spend controls and automated accounting integrations, it enables organizations to streamline financial operations, optimize working capital, and scale global spending efficiently.
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Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition

$240k – $300k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States) · Staff
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Product Engineering)

$192k – $240k per year · Senior · 7+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States) · Senior
Kotlin
Java
SQL
Python
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Quippy

quippyapp.com
quippyapp.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer Health Apps · Digital Mental Health · Startup · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer Health Apps · Digital Mental Health · Startup · Hiring 7
Ten minutes a day. Realistic scenarios. Honest feedback. Practice the conversations that actually matter.
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Founding Product Engineer

≈ $144k – $311k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
tRPC
React.js
Mobile
React Native
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U.S. Bank

usbank.com
usbank.com · HQ: Minneapolis, United States · Financial Services · Cards & Card Issuing · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Commercial & Retail Banks · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1863 · Trust A · Hiring 915, 147 new
HQ: Minneapolis, United States · Financial Services · Cards & Card Issuing · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Commercial & Retail Banks · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1863 · Trust A · Hiring 915, 147 new
US Bank is the primary operating bank of US Bancorp, a Minneapolis, Minnesota based banking group offering consumer and business banking, credit cards, mortgages, wealth management, corporate trust, payments and treasury services. Tracing its roots to 1863, it is the largest bank in the Midwest and the seventh-largest in the country, runs a branch network across much of the western and central US, including in-store Walmart branches, and is designated a domestic systemically important bank. Open roles include relationship bankers, branch managers, mortgage loan originators, audit, data and payments specialists, and AI and software engineers.
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Sr. Software Engineer - Workday CoE Delivery Lead

$120k – $141k per year · Lead · 5+ years exp · In office (Irving, Atlanta, San Francisco, Cupertino, Chicago, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
Confluence
Jira
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Altinity

altinity.com
altinity.com · HQ: Berkeley, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Databases & DBMS · Data Warehouses & Lakehouses · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 10
HQ: Berkeley, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Databases & DBMS · Data Warehouses & Lakehouses · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 10
Founded by ClickHouse geeks, Altinity champions open source, developer success, great support, and real-time analytics innovation. Explore our journey.
Mindaugas Zukas · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Robert Hodges · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Vadym Tkachenko · Director
Petr Zaytsev · Director
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Server C++ Engineer (Security & Distributed Systems)

≈ $122k – $262k per year (Estimated) · San Francisco · Remote (United States)
C++
Databases
ClickHouse
Apache Iceberg
DevOps
Amazon S3
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Lemma

uselemma.ai
uselemma.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Lemma is a production monitoring platform for AI agents that catches silent failures such as bad tool calls, lost context and infinite loops before users find them. It hires AI and machine learning engineers, backend and infrastructure engineers, product designers and forward deployed engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Product Engineer

$120k – $200k per year · Equity 0.5–2% · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub
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Cua

cua.ai
cua.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 3
Cua is a start-up that builds cloud desktops for AI agents, providing OS-level virtualization and developer-facing APIs across macOS, Windows and Linux. It works on open-source tooling and hires founding engineers, research interns and technical go-to-market leads. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Founding Engineer, Infra & Agent Systems

$100k – $150k per year · Equity 0.5–0.8% · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Junior
Rust
Go
TypeScript
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Copilot
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
KVM
GitHub
Windows
Docker
Linux
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Electric Plant Company

electricplant.co
electricplant.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Artificial Intelligence · Foundation Models · LLM & Generative AI · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Artificial Intelligence · Foundation Models · LLM & Generative AI · Startup · Hiring 3
We are a plant intelligence company transforming plant care today and accelerating the techno-biophillic future of tomorrow.
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Senior Software Engineer

$175k – $195k per year · Equity · Senior · 7+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Cursor
Claude Code
Physical AI
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Linux
GCP
IoT
MQTT
LoRaWAN
MicroPython
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Petrarch

petrarch.co
petrarch.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
Petrarch helps economically vital businesses prepare their proprietary operational records, cleared and anonymized on premise, so the AI systems building for the physical world can learn from real work.
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Founding Engineer

$120k – $170k per year · Equity 0.5–3% · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Terraform
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
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AutoSitu

autositu.com
autositu.com · Construction Management Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 1
Construction Management Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 1
The AI operating system for the built world. Connected intelligence from feasibility to construction — site feasibility, design review & QA/QC, code compliance, quantity takeoff, and scope gap analysis in one system for municipalities, architects, and developers.
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Founding Engineer - Arkhe

$120k – $250k per year · Equity 1–3% · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Databases
Supabase
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Multi-Agent Systems
AI Agents
Mastra
Frontend
Next.js
Robotics
Digital Twin
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item

item.app
item.app · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · CRM Software · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · CRM Software · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
Item is the AI-native system that understands your business, knows your customers, and does the work — Designed to replace your CRM.
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Product Engineer

$140k – $200k per year · Equity 0.5–1% · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Multi-Agent Systems
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
Vercel AI SDK
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
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Humwork

humwork.ai
humwork.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · AI Agents · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · AI Agents · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
Humwork is a startup that provides on-demand human experts to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. It is building a human escalation layer for agents that get stuck or make confident mistakes in unfamiliar domains. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Founding Engineer

$90k – $140k per year · Equity 2.5–5% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Windsurf
Embeddings
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
Devin
Lovable
LLM Evaluation
Cursor
ChatGPT
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI
Claude Code
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Expo
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Novoflow

novoflow.io
novoflow.io · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Practice Management Software · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Practice Management Software · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 3
Novoflow deploys computer-using AI agents that operate a medical practice's electronic health record system to automate front and back office work. It is a Y Combinator backed startup with multi-year contracts and hires founding software and DevOps engineers and an account executive. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Founding Software Engineer

$100k – $300k per year · Equity 1–2% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Voice Agents
Computer Vision
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Machine Learning
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
AWS
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
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Rebolt

rebolt.ai
rebolt.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Commercial Aviation · Avionics & Flight Control · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Commercial Aviation · Avionics & Flight Control · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 5
Manage the whole aircraft maintenance check with Rebolt. Connect planning, engineering, hangar execution, materials, and billing with agentic AI.
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Founding Backend Software Engineer

$60k – $180k per year · Equity 0.5–2% · Junior · 1+ year exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
SQL
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
AI/ML
Browser Agents
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub Actions
Docker
Linux
Kubernetes
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Stardrift

stardrift.ai
stardrift.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Travel Technology · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Travel Technology · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
Meet the team behind Stardrift, the AI travel assistant for frequent flyers. Backed by Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures.
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Founding Software Engineer

$125k – $175k per year · Equity 1–3% · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Python
Rust
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Nginx
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Apten

apten.ai
apten.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Sales & Marketing · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Sales & Marketing · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 2
AI agents that text & call like a human to convert students. Customize AI conversation flows to guide students down personalized experiences. Never forget to follow up.
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Software Engineer (Full Stack)

$140k – $180k per year · Equity 0.2–1% · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Databases
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
AWS
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Intryc

intryc.com
intryc.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Customer Support & Help Desk Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Customer Support & Help Desk Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 6
Run QA, uncover insights, coach agents, and turn every customer conversation into measurable improvement. All in one place.
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Fullstack Software Engineer

$140k – $180k per year · Equity 0.2–0.3% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
Flask
FastAPI
Django
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
CI/CD
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Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

$150k – $220k per year · Equity 0.5–0.7% · Senior · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
Flask
FastAPI
Django
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
CI/CD
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OneTrust

onetrust.com
onetrust.com · HQ: Atlanta, United States · ESG & Carbon Accounting Software · Data Governance & Catalogs · Security Compliance · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust B · Hiring 79, 14 new
HQ: Atlanta, United States · ESG & Carbon Accounting Software · Data Governance & Catalogs · Security Compliance · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust B · Hiring 79, 14 new
OneTrust is a leading enterprise software platform specializing in privacy, trust, and data governance technology. The company provides automated solutions for managing data privacy compliance, third-party risk, ethics, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) programs. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, its cloud-based trust intelligence platform helps organizations safely harness their data while adhering to global regulatory frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.
Kabir Barday · Director, Executive Officer · decision-maker
Thomas Laffont · Director
Alan Dabbiere · Director
David Dabbiere · Director
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Governance

$193k – $257k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 12+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, Sandy Springs, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Staff
Java
SQL
Python
C#
C#
.NET
Databases
Delta Lake
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Flink
LLM Guardrails
LLM
DevOps
Loki
OpenTelemetry
VictoriaMetrics
Tempo
Alertmanager
Prometheus
Grafana
Rest API
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Cybersecurity
Open Policy Agent
Analytics
Power BI
Management
Agile
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Arnata

arnata.com
arnata.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · HR & Payroll Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · HR & Payroll Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 8
Arnata is an innovative software company that provides AI-powered workforce automation platforms and autonomous digital agents for the logistics industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the enterprise develops intelligent tools designed to automate complex supply chain tasks, including carrier communication, compliance tracking, and freight scheduling. By integrating directly into existing transportation management systems, its technology enables logistics operators to reduce manual workloads and optimize operational efficiency.
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Founding Full-Stack Engineer

$150k – $200k per year · Equity 0.1–0.6% · Senior · 6+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Management
Google Maps
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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