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

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QUO

quo.com
Quo brings your calls, texts, and contacts together in one AI-powered shared space. Keep your team aligned, respond faster, and ensure every customer feels valued.
quo.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Office Management • Professional Services • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2018
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Office Management • Professional Services • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2018
Open 327 daysVerified live · 7 hours ago 11 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer

$172k – $287k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
LangChain
DevOps
Datadog
AWS
Kubernetes
Vector
Design
Figma
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Open 465 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer

$187k – $220k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C#
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Redis
DevOps
AWS
Datadog
Kubernetes
Design
Figma
Management
Notion
Slack
Linear
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Hospitable

hospitable.com
Best vacation rental software in 2023 and 2024. Whether you use Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com - Hospitable will help you automate.
hospitable.com • London • New York • Atlanta • Brussels • Amsterdam • Software • Property Management • Vacation Rentals • Est. 2016
London • New York • Atlanta • Brussels • Amsterdam • Software • Property Management • Vacation Rentals • Est. 2016
$121k – $247k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (EU, United States, Australia) • Full-Time • Middle
PHP
TypeScript
JavaScript
PHP
Laravel
Databases
MySQL
Frontend
Angular
DevOps
Kubernetes
Management
Slack
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Goodbill

goodbill.com
Our supercharged reviews lower hospital claims by an average of 30%. See why TPAs, brokers and employers love our member-centric cost containment solution.
goodbill.com • Financial Services • Health Care • Digital Health
Financial Services • Health Care • Digital Health
Open 333 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 11 months ago

Full Stack Software Engineer

$124k – $253k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby
Hotwire
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Sass
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Lightning Labs

lightning.engineering
Lightning Labs is a bitcoin infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2016. The company maintains lnd, the most widely deployed implementation of the Lightning Network, a payment layer that settles bitcoin transactions off chain for speed and low fees. It also builds Taproot Assets for issuing tokens on bitcoin and sells developer tooling and node services to exchanges, wallets, and payment companies.
lightning.engineering • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Asset Tokenization • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Est. 2016
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Asset Tokenization • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Est. 2016
Open 336 daysVerified live · 7 hours ago 12 months ago

Full Stack Engineer

$128k – $262k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Emotion
Next.js
React.js
D3.js
Bootstrap
visx
WebAssembly
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
QA
Jest
Playwright
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Open 1029 daysVerified live · 7 hours ago 3 years ago

Assets Protocol Engineer (Remote)

$129k – $263k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
C++
DevOps
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
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Open 1700 daysVerified live · 7 hours ago 4 years ago

Lightning Protocol Engineer (Remote)

$129k – $263k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
C++
DevOps
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
Smart Contracts
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Conversion

conversion.com
Conversion Factory is the data driven conversion optimization agency, providing CRO for a range of clients, from blue chip companies to small niche businesses. Conversion Factory uses the latest tools, technologies and methodologies to increase ...
conversion.com • San Francisco • E-commerce Marketing • Clinical Research • Sales & Marketing
San Francisco • E-commerce Marketing • Clinical Research • Sales & Marketing
Open 339 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago

Backend Engineer (Infra)

$175k – $225k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Go
Databases
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Design
Webflow
Management
Slack
Marketing
HubSpot
Marketo
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Tzafon

tzafon.ai
Tzafon is advancing machine intelligence. Our team develops models and systems for autonomous agents interacting with the real world.
tzafon.ai • San Francisco • AI Agents
San Francisco • AI Agents
Open 341 dayVerified live · 1 day ago 12 months ago

Member of Technical Staff – Backend/Platform Engineer

$150k – $250k per year • Equity • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Staff
Rust
Databases
Apache Kafka
ClickHouse
NATS
PostgreSQL
Redis
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
WebSockets
gRPC
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Amazon S3
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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Modal

modal.com
Modal is an AI infrastructure company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2021. It provides a serverless cloud platform featuring sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling that enables developers to run GPU-accelerated workloads, including model inference and fine-tuning, using a Python-native SDK. The company operates a globally distributed compute network designed for AI applications and serves a diverse range of industries such as generative AI and biotechnology.
modal.com • HQ: New York, United States • MLOps • LLM & Generative AI • Machine Learning • Information Technology • Hardware • Cloud Computing • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
HQ: New York, United States • MLOps • LLM & Generative AI • Machine Learning • Information Technology • Hardware • Cloud Computing • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
Open 342 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

$180k – $240k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
AWS
Azure
CloudFormation
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Pulumi
Terraform
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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depthfirst

depthfirst.com
depthfirst is an applied artificial intelligence security lab headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2024 by technical leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, and Faire. The company trains security specific models that read code, business logic, and infrastructure to find exploitable vulnerabilities and propose fixes, rather than emitting the false positives typical of static scanners. It released dfs-mini1 for smart contract auditing and works with Fortune 500 companies and software firms including Supabase, ClickUp, and Moveworks.
depthfirst.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Contracts & Security • Blockchain & Crypto • Vulnerability Management • Cybersecurity AI • Application Security • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Contracts & Security • Blockchain & Crypto • Vulnerability Management • Cybersecurity AI • Application Security • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
Open 351 day 12 months ago

Backend Engineer

$130k – $259k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Next.js
DevOps
AWS
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DAKOTA

dakotagroup.fr
dakotagroup.fr • Anchorage • Consumer Goods • Luggage & Bags
Anchorage • Consumer Goods • Luggage & Bags
Open 356 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 12 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Payments

$146k – $242k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
Claude
DevOps
Incident Management
GitHub
Buildkite
CI/CD
GCP
Kubernetes
Vercel
QA
Sentry
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Open 424 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

$140k – $200k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
Claude
DevOps
Incident Management
GitHub
Buildkite
CI/CD
GCP
Kubernetes
Vercel
QA
Sentry
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Numeral

numeral.com
We fully manage the headaches of sales tax so you can get back to real work. Get started for free today!
numeral.com • New York • San Francisco • Salt Lake City • Financial Services • Software • FinTech
New York • San Francisco • Salt Lake City • Financial Services • Software • FinTech
Open 357 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago

Software Engineer (Infra)

$180k – $300k per year • Senior • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Datadog
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Platform Engineering
Prometheus
Terraform
Amazon ECS
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Open 411 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Software Engineer (Product)

$175k – $300k per year • Senior • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
Terraform
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Tempo

tempo.xyz
Tempo is a blockchain company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2025. The company is building a payments focused layer one network designed for stablecoin settlement, with fees payable in stablecoins and throughput targeted at real world transaction volumes rather than speculative trading. It was incubated with backing from Stripe and Paradigm and is aimed at businesses moving money across borders.
tempo.xyz • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Payments • Financial Services • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Stablecoins • Blockchain & Crypto • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Payments • Financial Services • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Stablecoins • Blockchain & Crypto • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
Open 361 dayVerified live · 2 days ago 12 months ago

Rust Engineer

Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Rust
AI/ML
Anthropic
OpenAI
Web3
Ethereum
Rollup
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Oneimaging

oneimaging.com
OneImaging is the nation's leading comprehensive radiology care management platform, dedicated to drastically reducing the cost of medical imaging. By providing transparent pricing and seamless integration with insurance plans, OneImaging enables its members to access imaging services that are typically 80% cheaper than the national average. The company offers nationwide coverage with over 4,800 accredited centers and aims to make diagnostic imaging an affordable employee benefit.
oneimaging.com • Miami • Elderly Care • Medical Imaging • Health Care
Miami • Elderly Care • Medical Imaging • Health Care
$120k – $180k per year • Equity • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Node JS
Mongoose
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
OCR
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Vite
Webpack
DevOps
AWS
AWS Fargate
CI/CD
Docker
Amazon S3
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
QA
Cypress
Jest
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EliseAI

eliseai.com
EliseAI is the industry-leading AI platform transforming both property management and healthcare through automation and conversational AI that help housing and healthcare organizations streamline communications and improve operational efficiency.
eliseai.com • HQ: New York, United States • PropTech • Artificial Intelligence • Conversational AI
HQ: New York, United States • PropTech • Artificial Intelligence • Conversational AI
Open 368 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Software Engineer (Full Stack and Mobile)

$230k – $270k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Junior
C#
C++
Java
Kotlin
Objective-C
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
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Open 437 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer

$224k – $419k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Staff
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
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Open 437 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

$230k – $270k per year • Senior • 2+ years expIn office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Campfire

campfire.ai
Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for high-growth finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount.
campfire.ai • San Francisco • New York • London • Data Visualization • Est. 2023
San Francisco • New York • London • Data Visualization • Est. 2023
Open 368 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Full Stack Engineer

$150k – $220k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Frontend
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
React.js
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Console

console.com
Console is the AI-native platform for IT service management (ITSM), built to help teams automate support and shift from doing the work to managing the system that does the work for them.
console.com • San Francisco • Managed IT Services • IT Management • Information Technology
San Francisco • Managed IT Services • IT Management • Information Technology
Open 383 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

$180k – $280k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Cursor
OpenAI
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Slack
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Zencastr

zencastr.com
Vibes required. Production optional. A Vibecast is a conversation. Zencastr turns it into something worth sharing.
zencastr.com • San Francisco • New York • Podcasting • Media & Entertainment
San Francisco • New York • Podcasting • Media & Entertainment
Open 388 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Senior Fullstack Engineer (Remote)

$141k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Senior • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
Redis
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
DigitalOcean
GCP
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Open 390 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

$140k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Senior • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
SQL
TypeScript
Databases
Redis
DevOps
DigitalOcean
GCP
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Motional

motional.com
Motional harnesses deep industry experience in our mission to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles and to make driverless technology safe and reliable.
motional.com • Boston • Pittsburgh • Las Vegas • Transportation & Logistics • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 51-200 employees
Boston • Pittsburgh • Las Vegas • Transportation & Logistics • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 51-200 employees
Open 388 daysVerified live · 30 min ago 1 year ago

Fellow - Autonomy (Distinguished Engineer)

$137k – $275k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 15+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Principal
Chain-of-Thought
LLM
PyTorch
TensorFlow
TensorRT
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Daydream

daydream.ai
daydream.ai • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 391 day 1 year ago

Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

$161k – $290k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
AWS
CI/CD
Datadog
Self-Healing
Terraform
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
SOC 2
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Open 634 days 2 years ago

Senior Software Engineer (Product)

$156k – $281k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Copilot
Perplexity
Streamlit
Scale AI
DevOps
Vercel
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Airtable
Notion
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Wispr Flow

wisprflow.com
Wispr Flow is an artificial intelligence dictation company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2021. The company builds a voice to text tool that runs across desktop and mobile applications, cleaning up filler words and adapting tone and formatting to whichever application the user is typing into. It targets people who write heavily throughout the day, including engineers, founders, and clinicians, and started as a neural interface research effort before narrowing to speech.
wisprflow.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mobile App Development • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Productivity Software • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mobile App Development • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Productivity Software • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
Open 392 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Software Engineer, Product

$180k – $325k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time
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Doss

dosstrucking.com
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dosstrucking.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • 51-200 employees
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • 51-200 employees
Open 396 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Backend Engineer

$180k – $210k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time
DuckDB
ElasticSearch
Google BigQuery
GraphDB
Memgraph
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
DevOps
Git
Terraform
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Open 420 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Staff Backend Engineer

$230k – $260k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Staff
DuckDB
ElasticSearch
Google BigQuery
GraphDB
Memgraph
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
DevOps
Git
Terraform
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Open 858 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Fullstack Engineer

$180k – $260k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
DuckDB
ElasticSearch
GraphDB
Memgraph
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Design
Figma
Management
Airtable
Zapier
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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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.
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