San Francisco, CA

Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

The densest concentration of AI and infrastructure startups in the US, plus most large platform companies. Backend engineers build APIs, data models and services. Expect interview focus on schema design, concurrency, caching and API contracts.

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Hiring in San Francisco right now

San Francisco employers posted 15 backend engineer roles in the last five days. Few of these listings publish a salary range; national bands for this role run $115k–$190k.

Local hiring skews toward Java, Go, Python, PostgreSQL. If your resume doesn't name those tools in the same words the job description uses, an ATS keyword filter is the most likely reason you never hear back.

Skills to lead with

  • Java
  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices

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