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Remote
Chicago, IL
152K-179K Annually
Junior
152K-179K Annually
Junior
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
The role involves upgrading blockchain nodes, implementing automation to reduce manual efforts, and enhancing service effectiveness while maintaining production services.
Top Skills: AutomationBlockchainIntegration TestingSoftware Engineering
Reposted 6 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build services with Golang, design scalable systems, and maintain backend architectures, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: DockerDynamoDBGoMongoDBPostgresRuby on RailsRuby
8 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Natural Language Processing
We are seeking a Staff Back End Engineer to develop our customer-facing application, focusing on quality, business impact, and system stability. Responsibilities include designing and evolving distributed systems, mentoring teams, and implementing CI/CD in a cloud environment.
Top Skills: AWSAws CdkCi/CdCloudFormationCloudwatchDatadogDevOpsElastic ApmGoJavaScriptPrometheusPythonRubyTerraform
Reposted 2 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
212K-249K Annually
Senior level
212K-249K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain low latency trading systems, architect core components, and lead technical projects while mentoring team members.
Top Skills: AWSDockerGoJavaPostgres
4 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
120K-210K Annually
Mid level
120K-210K Annually
Mid level
Gaming
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will design and implement backend services, manage deployment on Kubernetes, and solve scalability challenges for a new shooter game.
Top Skills: AWSC#GoKubernetes
Reposted 2 Days Ago
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Hardware • Information Technology • Sales • Software • Transportation
Design and develop software components for new features, collaborating with teams to create scalable solutions for Fleet Safety, while guiding architecture decisions and supporting product feasibility.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdGitGoJavaMySQLNode.jsNoSQLPostgresPythonRuby
12 Days Ago
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
156K-273K Annually
Senior level
156K-273K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • HR Tech • Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Automation
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll manage data growth, optimize relational database performance, and drive complex projects to completion while collaborating across teams.
Top Skills: Core JavaMariadbMySQLOraclePostgresUnix Shell
3 Days Ago
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
169K-240K
Senior level
169K-240K
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
As a Senior Software Engineer in SRE, you will lead teams in building reliable backend systems, driving incident management, and fostering a culture of quality, while supporting product development and handling operational metrics.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Coinbase, you'll design and build scalable systems, write tested code, and contribute to high-impact projects in the financial technology space.
Top Skills: BlockchainDockerDynamoDBGoMongoDBPostgresRuby on RailsRuby
3 Days Ago
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
200K-275K
Senior level
200K-275K
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
As a Staff Software Engineer in SRE, you will design and enhance backend systems, ensuring reliability and operational excellence while developing a culture of quality and mentorship within the team.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
Reposted 7 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
130K-160K Annually
Senior level
130K-160K Annually
Senior level
Marketing Tech • Sales • Software
Design and maintain backend systems with a focus on quality and performance, collaborating with teams to drive engineering standards.
Top Skills: AppsyncAws Api GatewayAws CognitoAws LambdaDynamoDBPython
Reposted 4 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
131K-200K Annually
Senior level
131K-200K Annually
Senior level
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
The role involves developing innovative digital products by contributing to full stack development, collaborating with cross-functional teams, utilizing cloud services, ensuring code quality through testing, and managing workload using Jira. Additionally, it includes backend system implementation and maintaining technical documentation.
12 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
135K-215K Annually
Senior level
135K-215K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Lead backend engineering efforts to design, develop, and enhance large-scale applications, focusing on distributed technologies and systems design.
Top Skills: Go,Golang,Java8,Python,Git,Cassandra,Kafka,Elasticsearch,Kubernetes,Postgres,Redis,Aws Cloud
Reposted 7 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
152K-179K Annually
Junior
152K-179K Annually
Junior
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll decompose a monolithic Rails app into microservices, design scalable systems, and write high-quality code to enhance Coinbase's institutional financial platform.
Top Skills: DockerGoMongoDBPostgresRuby on RailsRedshiftRubySinatra
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will design and build scalable backend services using Golang, collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring high-quality code delivery.
Top Skills: BitcoinBlockchainDockerDynamoDBEthereumGoMongoDBPostgresRuby on RailsRuby
Reposted 4 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
Insurance • Legal Tech • Social Impact
Design and operate APIs, evaluate storage technologies, review and test code, and mentor teammates on best practices to support Atticus' mission and growth.
Top Skills: AWSBig DataCircleCICockroachdbDockerGCPGitGoGoogle SpannerGraphQLHadoopHttp RestJavaJavaScriptKubernetesPythonRubyScala
7 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
135K-150K Annually
Mid level
135K-150K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • Legal Tech • Payments • Sales • Software
As a Backend Software Engineer at AffiniPay, you will deliver secure, high-availability APIs, mentor junior engineers, and develop solutions in a collaborative environment focused on quality and scalability.
Top Skills: Apache KafkaAWSAws RdsJavaKubernetesPythonRdbmsScalaSQL
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
159K-224K
Mid level
159K-224K
Mid level
Information Technology • Software
Backend Engineer responsible for automating release processes, measuring impact, and debugging, while collaborating with cross-functional teams in software delivery.
Top Skills: GoJavaPythonRestful ApisRubyScala
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology
The Sr Backend Engineer will design and maintain backend services using Ruby on Rails and AWS, ensuring high performance and data integrity while collaborating with front-end developers.
Top Skills: AWSCSS3DockerHTML5JavaScriptPostgresRuby On Rails
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
The role involves architecting and developing platforms for foundational teams, providing technical structure, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders to create strategic roadmaps.
Top Skills: SparkDockerGoGrpcHiveSQL
5 Days Ago
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
200K-275K
Senior level
200K-275K
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The Staff Software Engineer will set technical strategies, collaborate across teams, and develop backend systems while ensuring operational reliability and code quality.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
19 Days Ago
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
72K-141K Annually
Senior level
72K-141K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Insurance • Professional Services • Analytics • Cybersecurity
The role involves leading and developing complex applications, system analysis, mentoring staff, and integrating vendor solutions. Requires extensive experience in full stack development and project management.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCloud Native PatternsGCPJavaJdk 11Jdk 17KubernetesNode.jsReactSpring 5+SQL
19 Hours Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
60K-130K
Senior level
60K-130K
Senior level
Software
Lead the development of scalable software solutions, optimize platform performance, and collaborate with teams to enhance user experience and ensure system resilience.
Top Skills: AWSC#KubernetesNode.jsPythonRubyTypescript
8 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Aerospace
Develop and enhance backend systems for controlling and monitoring biofarming products. Ensure code quality, lead development, and deploy solutions in production environments.
Top Skills: APIsDockerElasticsearchGitGoGraphQLGrpcInfluxdbMqttNoSQLPostgressqlPythonSQLSqlite
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Chicago, IL
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Design, develop and maintain backend systems for a crypto payment platform, optimize performance and collaborate with cross-functional teams on product development.
Top Skills: AWSGoKafkaKubernetesMemcachedMongoDBMySQLPostgresRabbitMQRedisRubySolidity
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