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maintain technical documentation, including solution design documents, call flow diagrams, integration specifications, and runbooks· Develop and execute test plans and scripts for System Integration Testing (SIT) and Use…
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Backend Developer jobs in Salt Lake City, UT
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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$36–$94/hr
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$126k
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related Microsoft cloud technologies, ensuring alignment between technical execution and business objectives. This role helps design, develop, test and support solutions while managing risks, dependencies, and delivery o…
$130k - $200k
deployment, and production support. Key responsibilities include:Lead technical workstreams for CCaaS and Contact Center AI implementations. Develop solution designs, integration patterns, technical specifications, and i…
Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our cli…
$105k - $131.33k
're accelerating the energy transition by delivering innovative solutions that power the world's fastest-growing industries. As a Developer, Gas Generation, you'll play a key role in developing generation projects that e…
working adults use to navigate their education, monitor progress, connect with mentors, and determine what comes next. The team is now developing an AI assistant integrated into the portal and grounded in WGU’s systems t…
administration.Partner across multiple teams to identify and solve critical technical challenges, risks, and dependencies.Mentor and develop engineers through formal and informal coaching, technical leadership, and colla…
$77k - $202k
break down complex concepts.Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy. Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.Use re…
management informed of status and significant problems.ABOUT THE ROLEWe are looking for a skilled Salesforce Engineer II to design, develop, and maintain scalable CRM solutions that power our go-to-market teams. In this…
position is based onsite at a client location in the Salt Lake City, UT area. Your future duties and responsibilities: Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable enterprise applications and AI-enabled product ca…
$110k - $170k
Company Founded by CPAs, tax attorneys, and engineers, Taxbit is the leading innovator automating global tax reporting for the digital economy. Taxbit's AI-enabled platform streamlines compliance related to digital asset…
you’ll need: Experience. You've played a crucial role in building and maintaining of large scale products and have worked both backend and frontend Systems thinking. You know how to think high level about end-to-end syst…
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What backend developers earn in Salt Lake City
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $36–$50 | $74k–$103k |
| Mid level | $50–$72 | $103k–$149k |
| Senior | $69–$94 | $144k–$196k |
Adjusted for the Salt Lake City 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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