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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…
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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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Job Title: ForgeRock Developer Duration : Contract to Hire Location : Midvale/Salt Lake City, UT Work Mode : 5 Days Onsite Systemone is looking for a talented, driven, and experienced ForgeRock Developer with a passion f…
: Details Open Date 03/21/2024 Requisition Number PRN38022B Job Title Web Software Developer Sr Working Title Web Software Developer Sr Job Grade G FLSA Code Computer Employee Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hour…
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: Details Open Date 01/11/2024 Requisition Number PRN37404B Job Title Web Software Developer Sr Working Title Sr Web Software Developer Job Grade G FLSA Code Computer Employee Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hour…
reside within the continental US. Responsibilities: Design, develop, and implement AI-powered features across healthcare product... ...care coordination, and operational efficiency. Develop APIs, backend services, automa…
We are seeking a talented and experienced developer with extensive knowledge of GenTax systems to work closely with an IT development team supporting enterprise tax and motor vehicle applications. This role designs, impl…
$89.6k - $156.7k
across mission-critical enterprise environments. Your future duties and responsibilities How you'll make an impact • Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable enterprise applications and AI-enabled product features usin…
Job Title: Mainframe Developer (COBOL, CICS, DB2) Description: Mainframe Developer (COBOL, CICS, DB2) Position Description Are you an experienced Mainframe Developer (COBOL, CICS, DB2) looking to work on mission critical…
office, one day remote 3form is hiring a junior to mid-level full stack web developer to help build and improve our website and ecommerce platform. This role includes both frontend and backend work, with a stronger empha…
risks before they impact delivery, quality, or system performance. Software Development Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, and backend services. Lead the development of modern user experiences usi…
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Unlock your potential in an exciting role as a NAV Developer, where your expertise can drive meaningful change. This permanent, onsite position offers the chance to work with MS Dynamics - NAV (Navision) and contribute t…
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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