$88.38k - $106.44k
Salary: $88,382 - 106,438 per year Requirements: We are looking for a junior to mid-level full-stack developer with 3–6+ years of experience. We prefer prior experience in an agency or fast-paced client services setting.…
Engineering & IT · Cleveland, OH
Backend Developer jobs in Cleveland, OH
Backend developers build the server-side logic, APIs, and data layers that applications run on. The job is designing services that stay correct, fast, and secure as usage grows.
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$32–$84/hr
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$113k
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Software Engineer III who is passionate about innovation and backend technologies to join our development team. Flexjet empowers... ...DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Directly responsible for designing, developing and troubl…
: The Manufacturing Systems Full Stack Developer is responsible for the design, development, integration, implementation, and support... ...Optimize components for maximum performance and reusability. Backend Development…
strategies to serve our clients across the globe. Great marketing, powered by great people. Our team of talented creators, developers, writers and artists come together to craft innovative solutions that resonate with yo…
The Full Stack Application Developer will be responsible for supporting the broader process of developing and deploying enhancements and/or new applications used in local, networked, cloud-based or internet-related compu…
reliable, enterprise-ready applications. By designing stable backend architectures and seamless integration layers, you will ensure... ...experience should you have: ~12+ years of years experience developing and deployin…
Role Overview The Java Full Stack Developer to join our technology team at a leading retail bank. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-grade custom microservice applications using modern Ja…
Role Overview The Lead Java Full Stack Developer will join our technology team at a leading retail bank. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-grade custom microservice applications using mo…
Job Description Job Description Sr. Backend AI Engineer Location: Cleveland, OH Role Overview Move beyond traditional... ...of unstructured data. Build Self-Healing Infrastructure: Develop autonomous reliability layers t…
Job Description Job Description Senior Frontend Developer (AI Tech Enablement) Role Summary: We are seeking a visionary Senior UI Developer to join our Technology Enablement team. In this role, you will bridge the gap be…
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setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft... ...complete them within 1 week. What Yo u’ ll Do Design, develop, and maintain…
Go Maverick Group is seeking an experienced System Developer / Administrator to join a dynamic and agile team of IT support specialists... ...automation between systems, and modification of system code and backend report…
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What backend developers earn in Cleveland
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
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| Entry level | $32–$44 | $66k–$92k |
| Mid level | $44–$64 | $92k–$133k |
| Senior | $62–$84 | $129k–$175k |
Adjusted for the Cleveland market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
A server language (Java, Go, Python, C#)API design (REST, gRPC)SQL and schema designCaching and queuesAuthentication and securityDistributed systems basicsDocker and CI/CDObservability and logging
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design an API for a feature like comments or notifications.
Clarify requirements, then cover endpoints, data model, pagination, and error handling. Mentioning versioning and rate limits shows production experience.
How would you find and fix a slow database query?
Walk through reading the query plan, checking indexes, and considering caching or denormalization. Ground it in a query you actually fixed.
How do you keep two services consistent when both need to update data?
Discuss transactions, idempotency, and eventual consistency with outbox or saga patterns. Acknowledge tradeoffs rather than promising perfect consistency.
What do you monitor on a service you own?
Name the basics — latency, error rate, saturation — plus business-level signals. Bonus points for talking about alerts you tuned to reduce noise.
Tell me about a production incident you handled.
Structure it: detection, mitigation, root cause, prevention. Emphasize what changed afterward, not just the firefight.
How do you approach securing an API?
Cover authentication, authorization, input validation, and secrets handling. Naming OWASP-style risks concretely is enough; you are not expected to be a security engineer.
When would you choose a message queue over a direct call?
Talk about decoupling, retries, and absorbing spikes, and be honest about the added complexity of async debugging.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For backend developers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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State scale where you can: requests per second, data volume, or number of services — it is the fastest way to signal seniority.
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Name the databases and infrastructure you ran in production, not just languages.
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Describe reliability work — migrations without downtime, incident reduction, test coverage on critical paths.
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If you designed an API others consume, say so and note how many teams or clients depend on it.
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Avoid listing every framework you have touched; two stacks with depth read better than eight without.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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