85 senior backend engineer jobs found in San Francisco, CA

We're looking for a motivated, experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team. Based in the heart of San Francisco's scenic Financial District, you'll join our Engineering team in building out an extraordinary web-based platform that has helped thousands of people save money, and aims to help millions more. If you've been seeking a product that's worthy of your skills, then read on. Sample Projects Include: Implement a tool that fetches normalized data from lenders and serves it to the appropriate user profiles quickly and coherently.   Craft a protocol that integrates with disparate lender APIs that provide data through XML, JSON, and others, both synchronously and asynchronously, in real time.   Build out our rules engine that serves borrowers with the appropriate offerings according to their financial information.   Minimum Skills and Qualifications: BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or highly similar degree is required.   5+ years of...

With us, we're bringing a novel, data-driven approach to helping brands tell stories that are relatable and personalized with a platform that solves the content creation problem through a diverse community of photographers, videographers, models, influencers and more. We're growing fast and want to add great people that want to tackle this challenge to our hard working and passionate team! We're looking for a talented and experienced engineer that can meet our high technical bar, wants to take over the backend of the platform, and is a great fit for our open, driven, and collaborative team culture. Join our small but growing engineering, design and product teams by making a significant impact as we tackle challenging problems and innovate for great brands and talented content creators across the world! As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for: Building and architecting backend frameworks and components to support our growing team of engineers Helping to...

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our Innovation Labs team in San Francisco HQ. This is a lean team comprising of a front end developer, designer, PM, and this open position. This group will be building a brand new product that doesn’t exist in the market so you will be constantly exploring new ideas and coming up with prototypes quickly. You'll work very closely with the executive team and your work will directly impact the future of this business. You'll also have the security and resources of a stable business that has raised over $100 million and has established market fit. Job Duties:   --Work on our newest products from scratch; which will require coming up with prototypes quickly and brainstorming with stakeholders to evolve and drive our upcoming offerings.   --Develop efficient, reusable, reliable, and scalable software   --Optimize existing stack and architecture   --Architect backend, high-concurrency, multithreaded, server-side systems...

We are a messaging, scheduling and productivity application geared for teams, mobile bound and hourly workers. Our user base is growing and we are looking for a back-end engineer to build and scale our real time communication platform. As a backend engineer, you will:   * Be a strong developer, with at least 5 years experience developing in Java (or other OO language.)   * Have a solid understanding of databases and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB.)   * Be experienced in building and scaling systems (AWS.)   * Write great code, building new features at a rapid pace. For us, it starts with the healthy balance between great code and moving fast.   * You’ll work with a small team, but we expect you to be the backend expert, laying the foundation of great code yourself and helping others around you to code to those standards.   * Be responsible for communicating with the client application leads and coordinating releases of new features. We release new features on 3 clients at the...

We are the real-time source of truth on over 2 million companies around the world. Sales, marketing, and finance professionals all rely on us to understand their markets and prioritize which companies they should be targeting. We are looking for a data-driven, full-stack Senior Software Engineer who can take initiative and think creatively to build and maintain our enterprise product. You will work on our user experience from web application to API to Chrome Extension to integrations in order to extend our leadership in automating the grunt work it takes to make business decisions. Here are some ways you'll make an impact:   - You'll work closely with PMs and UX engineers to develop APIs that support our many customer facing applications.   - You'll tackle difficult technical challenges from high-volume crawling to machine learning to data matching and deduplication.   - You'll be a mentor and source of learning for less-experienced engineers - though you'll also continue to...

With us, we’re transforming the $3 trillion agriculture industry with two products, our Farm Management Software (FMS) and AcreValue. Our typical customer is a multi-generational, large family farm looking for software to help them get more done and make better decisions. We collaborate closely with customers and industry experts to guide our efforts and build our products. We’ve had an exciting 3+ years of building product and growing our customer base (we have customers in over 40 states and help them manage over 1.5 million acres of farmland) and are looking to grow our team to continue our exciting trajectory. We are a startup funded by Andreessen, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Tao Capital. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team working on our FMS or AcreValue products. WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON Work closely with other developers, product managers, data science and design to develop a high-performance, scalable web application for...

We are the AI platform for data-driven sales and marketing, built on a massive graph of business relationships. We give sales leaders a complete picture of sales activities and leverage AI to help them manage their teams based on hard data, rather than assumptions. Marketing teams gain visibility into how their leads move through the funnel after being passed to sales, allowing them to attribute sales activity to the right leads, campaigns, and opportunities. With AI, we are finally bridging the gap between sales and marketing. You’ll be joining a veteran team with experience at market leaders including Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce, Box, Lattice Engines, and Responsys. We are backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top VC's including Lightspeed, Shasta Ventures and Index Ventures. Our engineering team is focused on solving complex technical problems at a massive scale. Our vision is ambitious and we're looking for engineers who are up to the challenge. As a Senior Backend...

We are the AI platform for data-driven sales and marketing, built on a massive graph of business relationships. We give sales leaders a complete picture of sales activities and leverage AI to help them manage their teams based on hard data, rather than assumptions. Marketing teams gain visibility into how their leads move through the funnel after being passed to sales, allowing them to attribute sales activity to the right leads, campaigns, and opportunities. With AI, we are finally bridging the gap between sales and marketing. You’ll be joining a veteran team with experience at market leaders including Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce, Box, Lattice Engines, and Responsys. We are backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top VC's including Lightspeed, Shasta Ventures and Index Ventures. Our engineering team is focused on solving complex technical problems at a massive scale. Our vision is ambitious and we're looking for engineers who are up to the challenge. As a Senior Backend...

Our mission is to make the best mental health tools radically accessible for everyone. We are a venture-backed startup building company, a chatbot that helps people regulate their moods and learn powerful techniques to challenge distorted and negative thinking. Our bot uses scientifically proven techniques from CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and is based on 10 years of cutting edge research at Stanford University. We are the only mental health chatbot with empirical evidence to support its efficacy for anxiety and depression. Not only can he deliver significant mood improvement in just 2 weeks, but research has demonstrated that we are capable of creating a therapeutic relationship with users. We are pioneering a new era in mental health care and tackling problems of access to reduce the burden of mental health problems at scale. About this role:   We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer that will have a leading role in our Engineering team as we grow our...

About You: You're an engineer who loves challenges, learning, and making people's lives easier. You write reliable code and embrace automated testing as an unequivocal Good Thing. Balancing cutting edge technology with stability and robustness entices you, and building something useful drives you. You want to work with a driven team, build things you can be proud of, and avoid workplace politics as much as possible. You will be successful in this role if you've done some or all of the below: * Have experience with server-side coding and API design   * Have worked at a high-traffic website   * Have worked with search engines like ElasticSearch or Solr   * Pick up new ideas and technologies quickly and love learning them   * Love using code to make people's lives easier   * Enjoy helping others around you grow as developers and be successful   * Can be autonomous and self-driven   * Get inspired on a daily basis; think of new ideas, and like to share them with others...

Our mission is to make the best mental health tools radically accessible for everyone. We are a venture-backed startup building the company, a chatbot that helps people regulate their moods and learn powerful techniques to challenge distorted and negative thinking. Our bot uses scientifically proven techniques from CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and is based on 10 years of cutting edge research at Stanford University. We are the only mental health chatbot with empirical evidence to support its efficacy for anxiety and depression. Not only can he deliver significant mood improvement in just 2 weeks, but research has demonstrated that we are capable of creating a therapeutic relationship with users. We are pioneering a new era in mental health care and tackling problems of access to reduce the burden of mental health problems at scale. About this role:   We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer that will have a leading role in our Engineering team as we develop...

About Us We are a startup that is disrupting the $185 billion car insurance market by offering an entirely new model where the monthly bill is based on miles driven, paired with a smart driving app. Our product marries engineering and data science to deliver mobile technology, automotive telematics, and data-driven applications to make a car's data accessible and useful to modern drivers, including street sweeping alerts, trip stats, decoded check-engine lights, and car location. We aim to make car ownership as simple and affordable as it can be. You could think of us as the David to the auto insurance industry's Goliath.  Buckle up and get ready to drive with us. We're proud to say that we have been named on Glassdoor's Best Place to Work in their 2018 Employees' Choice Awards list for the second year in a row! About the role The Backend team lives and breathes Java, Python, Go,  AWS and SQL. The tech stack is built on and uses several services offered by AWS. As...

We are the largest real estate startup tackling a problem that affects over 100 million renters across the US and Canada. We believe that renters shouldn't engage with technology only to search for their next home or apartment rental. We believe that you should be able to walk into an open house or appointment, pull out your phone, and make a binding application and offer for that unit right there. This is how the next generation of the rental market will function, and us— with a unique twinned B2B and Consumer approach — is leading the way. You will write the code that underpins every single company initiative, critical to every new product, and have a massive impact on technology choices and product direction. Write the core services and APIs used across multiple platforms and two major brands, and help craft the next generation of apartment finding technology! Responsibilities   • Help guide and drive the platform into the future   • Care and growth of an extensive JSON...

We are the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs. We are already preloaded on 37% of TVs shipped in the US and are consistently the top-rated news service on platforms such as Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV and Android TV. Google selected us as the “Best TV Experience” for the 2017 Google Play Awards together with Netflix and RedBull TV. This is a unique opportunity to become a core team member of a rapid growing and lean startup changing the TV News landscape. If you're hungry to learn new technologies, are comfortable with uncertainty (e.g. don't need someone prescribing how to do things), and want to work with a small team on BIG projects; we should talk. Responsibilities:   • Architect and develop a scalable infrastructure to deliver personalized video news   • Tackle complex problems and clearly identify tradeoffs between various approaches and techniques   • Work and collaborate within a small team   • Learn new technologies and leverage new tools to ensure...

Here’s a crazy idea: build a voice and text chat app people actually care about with a remarkable, creative, hilarious (read: insane) team. Do you get excited about working on a distributed system with millions of concurrent users? How about writing and deploying code to it without any downtime? What about keeping API latency under 15ms? How about making sure the system handles failure and heals itself so the team can sleep at night?   If these are the kinds of problems that interest you, then we would love to chat. What you'll be doing   -Participating in building and running a distributed, worldwide, real-time system that processes millions of events per second.   -Working with a modern tech stack built on GCE with Elixir/Erlang, Python, Go, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a hint of C++ where appropriate.   -Architecting efficient and creative solutions to scale our backend systems.   -Deploying your own code.   -Building internal tools and libraries. What you...

The front page of the internet," we bring over 330 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. Come for the cats, stay for the empathy.  With us, we work hard to earn our users trust every day. Anti-Evil is a small and scrappy team, working closely with ops to defend our integrity by fighting spam, abuse, bots, and fraud. Anti-evil team members are motivated to find innovative, state of the art solutions, leveraging ML models, data systems and user insights to pursue the highest possible quality and safety standards for users across our products.  If ensuring the safety of users on the 4th most popular website in the US excites you, then youve found the right place. Were a small, tightly knit company with one of the highest user: employee ratios in the industry, giving you a tremendous opportunity for both scope and impact. Key Responsibilities: Architect and...

Welcome to the company. We believe in using space to help life on Earth. Our mission is to image the whole world every day and make global change visible, accessible and actionable. We build compact satellites and have launched the largest fleet of satellites in history. We control every component of hardware design and manufacturing, so our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains. With our humble beginnings in a Cupertino Garage, to a scrappy team of engineers hacking our initial satellite builds, we now find ourselves with brand new technology and market traction for our revolutionary web-based platform. Customers now have insight into the massive data we are collecting from space as well as the opportunity to perform advanced analytics and solve difficult problems with new insights.  We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we are iterating in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for...

With us, we're bringing a novel, data-driven approach to helping brands tell stories that are relatable and personalized with a platform that solves the content creation problem through a diverse community of photographers, videographers, models, influencers and more. We're growing fast and want to add great people that want to tackle this challenge to our hard working and passionate team! We're looking for a talented and experienced engineer that can meet our high technical bar, wants to take significant ownership of parts of the platform, and is a great fit for our open, driven, and collaborative team culture. Join our small but growing engineering team by making a significant impact as we tackle challenging problems and innovate for great brands and talented content creators across the world! As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll be responsible for: Playing a major role in architecting frontend / backend frameworks Developing major application features for the...

ABOUT THE ANDROID TEAM Our Android team is in its infancy, and is looking to grow up. We are responsible for creating an amazing app from scratch for both phones and tablets. Our primary focus is to create a robust, testable and delightful app that will help help our customers manage their financial life. We work closely with our backend developers as well as design and product teams.   WE’RE LOOKING FOR A SENIOR MOBILE ENGINEER WHO WILL   Team up on the architecture, and development of our Android application   Use modern but proven technologies to create an app that will run on multiple devices   Deliver polished and beautiful UI with smooth animations and delightful interactions WHAT WILL HELP YOU BE GREAT   Excellent knowledge of Java and/or Kotlin   Experience with mobile application architectures (MVVM, MVP, Clean) and knowledge of their pros and cons   Experience with Material design   Knowing everything there is to know about Activities, Fragments, Lifecycles,...

Senior Software Engineer, Android About Us With over 10 million active users and $90 million in venture funding, we are the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are very focused on location sharing and safety, but our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. Our team is focused on building technology that helps families feel safe and together even when they are outside of the home and apart. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect if you are in a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day. You will be joining us at a key moment in our history. We doubled active users and tripled revenue in 2017, and we are scaling our team to accommodate this rapid growth. We currently have 75 full time employees, with...