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architects, engineers, product partners, and operations teams to turn business needs into high-quality technical solutions. We develop, test, deploy, and support application features and services across the software deve…
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Backend Developer jobs in Pittsburgh, PA
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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role offered or a related IT position. We require 10 years of progressive experience using Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to develop user interface applications. We require 10 years of experience writing unit tests w…
$30k - $55k
appropriately at scale, is important. Experience using AI-enabled capabilities, including GenAI or machine learning services, to improve developer productivity, system intelligence, or customer outcomes is required, alon…
personalizationCore pharmacy infrastructureDevelopment of entirely new product linesWhat You’ll Do:Technical Leadership & ExecutionDesign and evolve backend and frontend architecture for scalable, high-performance system…
$30k - $55k
ideas clearly. We value exposure to AI-assisted experimentation and evaluation frameworks. Responsibilities: We design and develop regulatory and AI-powered solutions to address complex enterprise data and analytics chal…
Job Requirements We are seeking T2 Angular developer resource with 8 years of exp.Core Languages: Expert-level Frontend: Strong proficiency... ...with component libraries like Angular Material or PrimeNG. Backend: Solid…
$100k - $150k
Senior Backend Developer - Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic…
testing, deployment, and support. The engineer will code across backend services in Java and frontend in Angular, work with SQL and... ...stack, partnering with cross-functional teams, mentoring junior developers, and ma…
Job Title: Full Stack Developer Location: Dallas or Plano, Texas. No.Openings: 3 Description:... ...and responsibilities . Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications and RESTful APIs using Python and Fas…
, LA | Birmingham, AL Position Overview Seeking a Senior AWS Full Stack Engineer to develop cloud-based enterprise applications across frontend, backend, databases, APIs, DevOps, and AWS. The role requires broad full sta…
$70.8k - $156.7k
Senior Java API Developer - Backend Position Description We are seeking an experienced Sr Java API Developer to drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high performance API solutions. The ideal candidate…
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What backend developers earn in Pittsburgh
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $34–$47 | $70k–$97k |
| Mid level | $47–$68 | $97k–$141k |
| Senior | $65–$88 | $136k–$184k |
Adjusted for the Pittsburgh 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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