Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

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Remote or Hybrid
Colorado, CO
202K-238K Annually
Senior level
202K-238K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.
Top Skills: DockerGCPGoJavaKubernetesPostgresPython
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Remote
Colorado, CO
82K-105K Annually
Junior
82K-105K Annually
Junior
Software
The Marketing Backend Developer will build and maintain backend services and APIs for marketing operations, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrations, with a focus on performance and scalability.
Top Skills: AWSCloudFormationCSSDjangoFlaskHTMLJavaScriptMarketoNext.JsNode.jsPythonReactRubySalesforceSamSvelteTerraformVue
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Remote or Hybrid
Colorado, CO
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170K-221K Annually
Senior level
170K-221K Annually
Senior level
Food • Software
Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and monitoring backend applications. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design/version APIs, build event-driven/asynchronous systems, improve performance and reliability, and drive CI/CD and observability best practices. Ship high-quality, well-tested features and support platform scalability and maintainability.
Top Skills: Apis (Public/Partner-Facing)AWSBackground Job ProcessingCi/CdCloud InfrastructureContainerized DeploymentsDocker (Containerization)GCPMessage QueuesObservabilityPython
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In-Office or Remote
Colorado, CO
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Insurance • Mobile • Financial Services
You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.
Top Skills: AIAPIsGpt-4Machine LearningSoftware Development
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Remote
Colorado, CO
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218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.
Top Skills: Generative AiGoJava
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Remote
Colorado, CO
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145K-190K Annually
Senior level
145K-190K Annually
Senior level
Cannabis • eCommerce • Enterprise Web • Logistics • Payments • Software • Database
The Senior Backend Engineer II will design, build, and maintain backend services for financial workflows, collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance system reliability and performance.
Top Skills: DockerJavaJvm FrameworksKubernetesRelational Databases
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Remote
Colorado, CO
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186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.
Top Skills: Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesGenerative AiGoIncident ResponseJavaLow-Latency SystemsMicroservicesObservabilityPythonRubySlos
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In-Office or Remote
Colorado, CO
Easy Apply
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Healthtech • Software
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.
Top Skills: AWSDynamoDBFargateKinesisLambdaNode.jsPostgresServerless TechnologiesSnsSqsTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Colorado, CO
141K-229K Annually
Senior level
141K-229K Annually
Senior level
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Machine Learning • Software • Sports • Analytics
Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.
Top Skills: .NetAi-Assisted Development ToolsAWSC#DatadogDynamoDBKafkaKubernetesPaypalPci-DssPostgresReactStripeSvelteTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Colorado, CO
165K-235K Annually
Mid level
165K-235K Annually
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Productivity • Software • Database • Analytics • Automation
The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.
Top Skills: Python
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Remote
Colorado, CO
Easy Apply
146K-225K Annually
Junior
146K-225K Annually
Junior
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Design and build a centralized reliability platform and developer-facing APIs. Implement AI agents for incident triage, log/trace summarization, and recommended actions. Own projects end-to-end and collaborate with product, infra, data, and SRE teams.
Top Skills: Ai FrameworksAPIsClaudeCopilotCursorLlmsPython
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In-Office
Colorado, CO
96K-140K Annually
Senior level
96K-140K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Cloud • Digital Media • Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Generative AI
Design, build, and operate resilient backend services for dynamic video packaging, manifest generation (HLS/MPEG-DASH), DRM integration, and high-performance server-side ad insertion. Own production reliability, incident response, observability, and performance optimization while integrating AI-driven diagnostics and automation to scale streaming delivery for millions of concurrent viewers.
Top Skills: Av1AWSAws Elemental Media ServicesC++DynatraceFairplayGCPGenerative AiGoGrafanaH.264HevcHlsMp4Mpeg-DashNewrelicPlayreadyPythonRustSsaiTsWidevine
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5 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
Colorado, CO
125K-155K Annually
Senior level
125K-155K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Gaming • Software • Esports • Automation
Develop, maintain, and evolve a high-throughput, low-latency US sports trading platform. Build scalable microservices on GCP with Kubernetes using Go or Rust. Ensure resilience during peak events, contribute to architecture, mentor junior engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and adopt CI/CD, IaaS, concurrency debugging, and in-house AI technologies to deliver reliable global services.
Top Skills: Ci/Cd PipelinesGCPGoIaasKubernetesMicroservicesReactRustTypescript
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Remote
Colorado, CO
211K-316K Annually
Senior level
211K-316K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software • Automation
As a Staff Engineer for Revenue, you'll shape technical vision and architecture for billing and pricing systems, ensuring correctness while enhancing cross-team collaboration.
Top Skills: APIsBilling SystemsPerformance OptimizationSubscription Management
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Remote
Colorado, CO
136K-204K Annually
Senior level
136K-204K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • eCommerce • Information Technology • Software
The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop scalable applications, enhance DevOps practices, and drive continuous improvement within infrastructure and systems.
Top Skills: DockerGoJavaMemcachedMySQLPHPPythonRedis
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Remote or Hybrid
Colorado, CO
Easy Apply
196K-294K Annually
Mid level
196K-294K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software
As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.
Top Skills: AWSAws CloudformationJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsNoSQLOauthOpenid ConnectSaml 2.0ScimSQLTerraformTypescript
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Remote
Colorado, CO
120K-180K Annually
Senior level
120K-180K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in Go; optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries; create reliable integrations and orchestration layers; implement observability and security best practices; collaborate across engineering and product to improve developer experience and operate a SaaS platform.
Top Skills: GoPostgresRest Apis
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Remote
Colorado, CO
150K-170K Annually
Senior level
150K-170K Annually
Senior level
Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
Design, build, and maintain low-latency, high-availability backend services and REST APIs. Troubleshoot production issues, improve performance, write technical specs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate on the bot runtime platform.
Top Skills: AirflowSparkCassandraGitHadoopJavaJenkinsKafkaKubernetesMySQLRestSpring Boot
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Remote
Colorado, CO
Mid level
Mid level
Payments • Software
Seeking backend engineers to build and maintain APIs for payment processing, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring peers.
Top Skills: APIsAWSDockerGraphQLGrpcKubernetes
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Remote
Colorado, CO
Mid level
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Sales • Software
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Ruby on Rails. Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and write well-tested production code. Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchPostgresRabbitMQRubyRuby On RailsSQL
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In-Office or Remote
Colorado, CO
Senior level
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Software • Cryptocurrency • Metaverse
Design, develop, and optimize high-performance Java backend systems. Contribute to architecture, implement core modules, troubleshoot production issues, perform code reviews, and improve scalability, availability, and reliability of distributed financial or blockchain systems.
Top Skills: BlockchainCachingCryptoDistributed SystemsJavaMessagingMybatisNoSQLSpringWeb3
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Remote
Colorado, CO
160K-230K Annually
Expert/Leader
160K-230K Annually
Expert/Leader
Big Data • Fintech • Software • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
Lead architecture and technical roadmap for core backend services, design scalable APIs and data pipelines, debug and optimize distributed systems, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and improve performance, reliability, and maintainability while remaining hands-on with code.
Top Skills: AWSKubernetesMongoDBNestjsNode.jsNoSQLPostgresSQLTypescript
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Remote
Colorado, CO
Senior level
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology
Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java backend services and RESTful APIs. Collaborate with frontend, product, and stakeholders; write clean, tested code; troubleshoot and resolve issues; participate in code reviews; and improve systems, particularly for large-scale distributed environments.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDistributed SystemsDockerGCPJavaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresRestful ApisSQL
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In-Office or Remote
Colorado, CO
37K-132K Annually
Mid level
37K-132K Annually
Mid level
Agency • Information Technology
Design and build backend solutions in the NAV domain using Java/J2EE and Spring. Develop APIs, web services, database schemas, PL/SQL and transactional SQL in DB2/Oracle. Collaborate with tech leads, architects, and DevOps to deliver quality features, participate in code reviews, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
Top Skills: Db2GitHp Operations OrchestrationHp Service ManagerJ2EeJavaJenkinsOraclePl/SqlRest ApisServicenowSonarSpringSQLUdeployWeb Services
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In-Office or Remote
Colorado, CO
37K-132K Annually
Expert/Leader
37K-132K Annually
Expert/Leader
Agency • Information Technology
Design, build, and lead backend Java/J2EE and microservices solutions. Drive API design, cloud containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, database schema and PL/SQL development (DB2/Oracle), code quality, technical mentoring, and cross-team delivery for asset management initiatives.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDb2DockerGitGitHibernateHp Operations OrchestrationHp Service ManagerJ2EeJavaJenkinsJpa2KubernetesMicroservicesOraclePl/SqlRest ApiServicenowSonarSpringSpring BootSQLStashUdeploy
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