Source Job

$50,000–$60,000/yr
India

  • Architect end-to-end software solutions using modern frameworks aligned with scalability.
  • Lead complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery, aligning engineering solutions with business needs.
  • Build and maintain distributed systems using Spring Boot microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Java MySQL React Kubernetes Jenkins

20 jobs similar to Principal Backend Engineer

Jobs ranked by similarity.

$40,000–$45,000/yr
India

  • Participate in all phases of software development.
  • Design and develop reliable and scalable distributed systems.
  • Ensure system reliability, optimized performance, and compliance with security policies.

SupplyHouse.com is an industry-leading e-commerce company specializing in HVAC, plumbing, heating, and electrical supplies since 2004. They value every individual team member and cultivate a community where people come first, maintaining a supportive work environment that celebrates diversity and empowers everyone to reach their full potential.

Global

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services that power mission-critical platform functions within your team’s scope
  • Optimize data models and system performance to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability
  • Work across APIs, databases, and deployment systems to deliver cohesive, production-ready solutions

Onebrief provides AI-powered collaboration and workflow software tailored for military staffs, enhancing speed, intelligence, and efficiency. Founded in 2019, Onebrief boasts a team of veterans and technologists, backed by $320m+ from investors, valuing the company at $2.15B.

Nigeria

  • Detect and triage service and reliability issues.
  • Develop automation to eliminate manual and repetitive operational tasks.
  • Investigate and resolve customer complaints escalated beyond L1 and L2 support.

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets. Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit and business management tools to help them succeed.

Europe

  • Design and lead the development of backend services in a Microservice Architecture
  • Own architectural decisions with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Integrate AI-driven capabilities where they add product value

ApyHub empowers employees and encourages them to identify and propose ideas and solutions to drive the company forward. They allow employees the freedom to meet expectations in the way they think is best, working hard to scale their culture and core values.

Europe

  • Contribute to a full life-cycle of the product (including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption)
  • Build services with Java / Node.js (Express, Nest.js) on top of Kubernetes/AWS/GCP infrastructure
  • Build developer-friendly RESTful APIs

SmartRecruiters is a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, offering a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. They are a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech company with a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment.

Europe

  • Take end-to-end ownership of complex User Stories and actively contribute to feature analysis and solution design, from refining requirements to delivering production-ready solutions.
  • Collaborate closely with backend engineers on system design and implementation, proactively proposing technical solutions and taking ownership of decisions within your scope.
  • Contribute to the evolution of core backend components and APIs.

Genestack tackles the underlying computational and scientific challenges of bioinformatics in order to provide researchers with software tools. Our platform is deployed at leading pharmaceutical, agricultural, and consumer goods companies as well as leading academic institutions.

US Latin America Europe India 4w PTO

  • Design and build high-performing, distributed APIs and microservices that scale to handle heavy traffic
  • Design efficient database schemas and optimize complex queries for large, interconnected datasets
  • Write testable, maintainable code with a bias toward self-documenting practices

SalesRabbit is a leader in field sales, operating as the only fully integrated field sales management platform, continuously evolving enterprise-ready selling solutions. They have a team of 100+ and growing, and the engineering team is largely remote, working across the US, Latin America, Europe, and India.

  • Own Technical Excellence: Define and drive the architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for the feature store platform.
  • V2 Implementation: Assist and execute the next generation of our feature store—building for scale, low-latency serving, and enterprise-grade reliability.
  • Guide Product Roadmap: Partner with Product and leadership to help shape the technical roadmap.

Redis created the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. At Redis, people work with technology and build it, tell its story, and sell it to 10,000+ worldwide customers creating a faster world with simpler experiences.

India

  • Build and develop backend services primarily using Java and Spring Boot
  • Support the delivery of the first product release ahead of the planned launch date
  • Contribute to infrastructure and DevOps-related tasks to support deployment and reliability

Smart Working connects skilled professionals with global teams for full-time, long-term roles. They value growth and well-being and break down geographic barriers to help you discover meaningful work.

$125,600–$157,000/yr
US

  • Work closely with the architecture team and drive the complex system design.
  • Perform code reviews and mentor the development team with best practices.
  • Design, build and maintain highly sustainable systems to support our business applications.

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other.

US

  • Lead development of robust Java architectures, ensuring high performance and security.
  • Design and evolve seamless RESTful integrations to automate enterprise workflows.
  • Manage SQL environments, focusing on schema design and performance tuning.

CodeRoad offers software development services, assisting businesses in scaling with infrastructure solutions. They provide staff augmentation, IT teams, and general software engineering to empower businesses in the digital landscape.

$160,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Design and implement core platform features that solve for multiple constraints and use cases.
  • Drive the transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based approach, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and improved system resilience.
  • Lead technical initiatives and provide guidance on data modeling, contract definition, and API development.

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. They help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants.

US

  • Lead an Agile engineering team to achieve product roadmap objectives.
  • Oversee the entire technology stack, focusing on both frontend and backend technologies.
  • Design, develop, and deploy Cloud-based applications with a microservices architecture.

Jobgether is a platform that helps connect candidates with companies using AI-powered matching. They ensure applications are reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against core requirements.

$210,000–$250,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable and high-performance data software solutions using Golang and Python.
  • Build and deploy Kubernetes-based systems to manage containerized applications in cloud-native environments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address customer needs, ensuring systems evolve.

Machinify is a healthcare intelligence company focused on delivering value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients. They deploy a configurable, AI-powered platform used by over 85 health plans, representing more than 270 million lives, and foster a flexible and trusting environment.

India

  • Leading infrastructure strategy and driving DevOps best practices across the engineering organization
  • Helping engineers build reliable products by improving infrastructure and application monitoring, alerting, and tooling
  • Building tools and frameworks that help developers better understand and debug their systems and data

Aspire provides influencer marketing software and services for social commerce. They have helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers and are trusted by over 800 top brands.

5w PTO

  • Own the design, implementation, and evolution of complex product areas and backend systems.
  • Build and maintain user-facing interfaces and backend services/APIs as required by the product.
  • Lead by example in code reviews, uphold and evolve shared engineering standards, and drive improvements to the quality, structure, and maintainability of the codebase over time.

NexGen Cloud is building a next-generation GPU cloud infrastructure. They are a scale-up by design, moving fast, solving complex problems and building technology that has real-world impact, with a team of curious, driven people who care deeply about quality, ownership and collaboration.

Europe

  • Design, build, test, and support core back‑end components around a central trading application.
  • Implement clean, modular back‑end code (Java/C++), plus automation/scripting as needed.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve application incidents in a production‑critical environment.

They operate in a Financial Markets environment, supporting front–to-back trading and processing platforms across several European locations. Business and IT work closely together to build and support mission–critical applications for front office, back office, and shared services.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure and tooling that improves reliability, performance, and availability across OnePay’s platform
  • Contribute to the evolution of our observability stack, platform libraries, cloud architecture, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Develop automation and monitoring systems to detect, prevent, and remediate incidents before they impact customers

OnePay is a consumer fintech company trusted by millions of Americans to make money better, providing an all-in-one financial services platform. Backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital, OnePay provides banking, savings, credit cards, lending, investing, and crypto services and embedded financial services to frontline workers.

India

  • Design and implement scalable, microservices-based architectures using Golang.
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, leveraging Go’s concurrency primitives.
  • Build and maintain high-performance RESTful and gRPC APIs.

Object Edge is an award-winning digital consultancy working with leading global brands. They help businesses differentiate and compete by creating effortless digital experiences with a data-driven, highly collaborative, and best-in-class team.

$60–$71/hr
US

  • Collaborate across engineering, product, research, and operations.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications and backend systems.
  • Analyze data insights and research findings to identify improvements.

Maleda Tech supports a mission-driven nonprofit technology initiative focused on delivering safe housing and crisis response solutions at a global scale. They operate in a fast-paced, distributed environment where adaptability and ownership are essential.