engineering leadership to design, build, and scale the core systems that power our platform. You will: Architect and develop scalable backend services and APIs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliv…
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Backend Developer jobs in New York, NY
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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$46–$121/hr
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Senior Backend Software Engineer Broadway, NY Position Overview The Senior Backend Software Engineer / Consultant is a hands-on engineer responsible for developing, integrating, testing, deploying, and supporting backend…
Job Title: .Net Backend Developer (Oracle, SQL) Location: BROADWAY, NY (Hybrid) We are currently seeking candidates who meet the following qualifications: Job Description Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Com…
$168.48k - $189.28k
our diverse collective of pioneers and disruptors. As a Senior Backend Engineer at MoneyLion, your expertise will be pivotal in... ...related field. At least 4+ years of experience building and developing software would…
trust the platform. When it doesn't, markets go stale, resolution breaks, and confidence erodes fast. We're hiring an early-career backend engineer to join the Markets automation team and own meaningful pieces of this in…
powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure. About the role Polymarket is looking for a senior/staff backend engineer to own the systems that connect our exchange to the outside world — market d…
media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure. About the role Polymarket is looking for a senior backend engineer to build and scale the payments infrastructure that powers deposits, withdr…
$200k - $300k
client, a growing venture-backed Healthcare startup, is hiring a Backend Engineer to join their team in New York. The successful... ...strengthen their services to patients. Responsibilities ~Design, develop, and maintai…
$130k - $220k
client, an Early-stage user data AI platform, are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team in New York. The successful... ...ensure long-term system health and support product evolution. ~ Develop and maintain…
Who we are About Privy Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. We build simple, flexible developer tooling that make it easy to build products that put users first. By leveraging modern cryp…
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The Hyperlane protocol is pioneering permissionless and modular interoperability. Providing developers with an API to connect between blockchains, Hyperlane is the first tool that allows anyone to add interoperability ca…
Perplexity, SSI, and more. Read more about our vision for the future of infrastructure here. The role We’re hiring a Senior Backend/ Platform Engineer to scale the systems that power Antimetal’s investigation and automat…
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What backend developers earn in New York
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $46–$63 | $95k–$132k |
| Mid level | $63–$92 | $132k–$191k |
| Senior | $89–$121 | $185k–$251k |
Adjusted for the New York 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
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