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Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) will lead complex projects, set engineering best practices, enhance product reliability through improved testing/monitoring, and manage API documentation. This role focuses on building scalable software applications with a collaborative and mentorship-driven approach.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ, you will lead solutions for complex problems, set engineering standards and best practices, improve testing and monitoring, influence technical and product strategy, and manage database design and API documentation.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ will lead solutions for complex problems, improve testing and monitoring, influence technical strategy, and implement features requiring database design. Collaboration and mentoring within a remote engineering team are key responsibilities.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) will lead solutions for complex challenges, set engineering standards, improve testing and monitoring, and manage API implementations while collaborating with team members to drive technical strategy and architecture.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will lead initiatives to solve complex problems, ensure operational excellence through coding best practices, enhance product testing and monitoring, and implement features requiring database design. You will collaborate closely with your team to influence technical strategy and improve API management.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) will lead solutions to complex problems, driving best practices in engineering, enhancing testing and monitoring, and influencing the technical strategy and architecture. Responsibilities include implementing features, managing APIs, and collaborating within a remote team to improve product offerings.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ, you will lead solutions for complex problems, set engineering standards, improve product reliability through testing and monitoring, and influence the technical and product strategy. Your role involves implementing database design features and managing APIs, all while mentoring your team in a collaborative remote environment.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) will lead solutions for complex problems, set engineering best practices, improve testing and monitoring, influence technical strategies, and manage APIs for enhanced collaboration. The role focuses on improving product reliability and scalability within a remote team.

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Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer at AspireIQ, you will lead solutions for complex problems, establish engineering best practices, improve system reliability, influence technical strategies, and manage APIs. Your role is essential in building robust applications and optimizing features for enhanced performance.
10 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
41 Employees
Mid level
41 Employees
Mid level
Business Intelligence • Consulting
As a Full-Stack Engineer, you'll design, build, and deploy frontend and backend services for video creation tools. Your work involves web technologies and video standards, as well as Python for backend services, and integrating various AWS tools for event processing. You're expected to collaborate with engineers to advance innovative technologies.
9 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
2,200 Employees
142K-210K Annually
Junior
2,200 Employees
142K-210K Annually
Junior
Fintech
The Software Engineer II will primarily focus on frontend development while also handling backend tasks. They will build user experiences, integrate data pipelines, and maintain the Order Management System for scalability and performance. The role involves collaborating with product managers and engineers to optimize financial transactions.
Top Benefits:
401-K
Adoption Assistance
Child Care Benefits
+59 More
7 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
200 Employees
Senior level
200 Employees
Senior level
eCommerce • Healthtech • Kids + Family • Retail • Social Media
The Software Engineer III will join the Babylist Shop team to enhance user experiences in baby commerce. Responsibilities include collaborating with product and design teams to implement and deploy systems for search, cart, and checkout functionalities, while improving processes and driving impactful improvements.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+38 More
9 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
9,500 Employees
110K-143K Annually
Mid level
9,500 Employees
110K-143K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software
As a Backend Engineer at Atlassian, you will contribute to the Jira Align Development Platform by implementing new functionalities, improving user experiences, and optimizing backend processes. This role involves working on C# features, database optimization, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines within a collaborative, Agile environment.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+58 More
10 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
41 Employees
Senior level
41 Employees
Senior level
Business Intelligence • Consulting
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Hedra, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and deploying frontend and backend services for web-based video and audio tools. You'll work with technologies like React, NextJS, and Python while collaborating closely with design and product teams to deliver impactful products in a fast-paced startup environment.
7 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Hybrid
2,500 Employees
189K-234K Annually
Senior level
2,500 Employees
189K-234K Annually
Senior level
Computer Vision • Gaming • Software • Virtual Reality • Web3
The Senior Software Engineer will lead backend engineering efforts for Roblox avatars, focusing on developing scalable systems and creating efficient micro-services. Responsibilities include writing high-quality code, improving system performance, and ensuring reliability for a user base of over 90 million.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Child Care Benefits
+46 More
7 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
3,000 Employees
192K-245K Annually
3,000 Employees
192K-245K Annually
eCommerce • Food • Retail • Software
The Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing the user experience by developing robust backend architectures that support advanced recommendation and personalization systems. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining high-quality backend applications, leading development of backend system roadmap, innovating new features, owning major components of the product, collaborating across teams, and planning and executing projects.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+39 More
10 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
2,344 Employees
Senior level
2,344 Employees
Senior level
Fintech • HR Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer on the WebApp Architecture team at Gusto, you'll enhance frontend engineering practices, improve a complex codebase, and mentor fellow engineers. Responsibilities include problem ownership, active participation in discussions, integration and improvement of development tools, and running migrations. You're expected to have substantial experience in software development, especially with TypeScript and React, and to communicate effectively with product engineers.
Top Benefits:
401-K
Adoption Assistance
Commuter Benefits
+29 More
4 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Hybrid
51 Employees
Senior level
51 Employees
Senior level
Edtech • Information Technology • Kids + Family
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Kiddom, you will design scalable API integrations, build RESTful services, and create robust testing environments. You'll collaborate with a team to enhance educational opportunities through thoughtful engineering practices while managing the full development lifecycle.
Top Benefits:
Company Equity
Dental Insurance
Disability Insurance
+4 More
8 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
750 Employees
Senior level
750 Employees
Senior level
Software • Travel
The Senior Full Stack Engineer will own the specification, design, and implementation of features for our dynamic web application, collaborate with the product team, develop scalable solutions, and improve automated tests while participating in code reviews.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Commuter Benefits
+36 More
11 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
9,500 Employees
171K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
9,500 Employees
171K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software
As a Principal Backend Software Engineer at Atlassian, you will unblock development challenges, create solutions for cross-team projects, solve complex architecture issues, lead code reviews, and mentor junior engineers while setting coding standards. You'll leverage expertise in prominent programming languages and work closely with various engineering teams on significant initiatives.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+58 More
8 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
1,700 Employees
130K-280K Annually
Junior
1,700 Employees
130K-280K Annually
Junior
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
The Frontend Engineer will build a front end for the visual search experience and enable a web UI for processing computer vision data. This role involves leading projects from design to implementation, optimizing encoding functionality for 4K video, and collaborating across teams to ensure product delivery.
Top Benefits:
401-K
Commuter Benefits
Company Equity
+45 More
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ, you will lead complex projects, drive engineering best practices, improve testing and monitoring for systems, influence technical strategy, and work on database design and API management for web applications.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ, you will lead solutions for complex problems, set engineering standards, improve testing, and influence technical strategy while implementing features that require database design and optimization.
Yesterday
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
113 Employees
Senior level
113 Employees
Senior level
Marketing Tech
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at AspireIQ, you'll lead major projects to build user-facing features and APIs while collaborating with designers, product managers, and other engineers. You will focus on developing innovative solutions for community programs, utilizing a range of technologies in a remote setting.
13 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Remote
7,500 Employees
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
7,500 Employees
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
The Backend Engineer III will work on developing the Falcon Forensics product, improving monitoring effectiveness, resolving performance issues, writing automation, and implementing new features. Collaboration with UI engineers and UX designers is key to enhance product capabilities.
Top Benefits:
401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+44 More
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