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Backend Engineer jobs in California

We've aggregated 96 backend engineer jobs across California from company career pages and re-verified each listing so you won't hit dead ends. Upload your resume once to see honest match scores for roles at companies like OpenAI, including scores that are low—so you can see exactly which skills to build. When you find a fit, we send you directly to the original posting to apply.

113
Live verified roles
34
Companies hiring
5%
Remote-eligible
1
Posted in the last 7 days

The backend engineer market right now

Measured across the 113 live postings on this page — not an estimate, and not a forecast.

113
Open postings
34
Companies hiring
1
Posted in the last 7 days
5%
Remote-eligible
Pay
Median $205,000/yr · most between $178,500 and $222,000
From the 33 postings here that publish a range.
Most asked for
Python50%AWS22%Kubernetes19%System Design14%SQL12%
Type of work
Full-time 99% · Temporary 1%

Updated , when we last re-checked these listings.

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Showing 80 of the 80 most recently verified
F
Fivetran
6 roles shown here
Show 1 more at Fivetran
C
Chime Financial, Inc
5 roles shown here
R
Roblox
6 roles shown here
Show 1 more at Roblox
R
Robinhood
6 roles shown here
Show 1 more at Robinhood
V
Vercel
1 role shown here
D
Discord
5 roles shown here
L
Lyft
3 roles shown here
B
Brex
3 roles shown here
O
OpenAI
6 roles shown here
Show 1 more at OpenAI
S
Stripe
5 roles shown here
B
Baseten
2 roles shown here
C
Checkr
2 roles shown here
S
SoFi
2 roles shown here
D
Databricks
4 roles shown here
P
Perplexity
4 roles shown here
S
Sigma Computing
2 roles shown here
A
Attentive
2 roles shown here
P
Pinterest
6 roles shown here
Show 1 more at Pinterest
M
MongoDB
3 roles shown here
D
Deepgram
1 role shown here
H
Harvey
2 roles shown here
C
Cursor (Anysphere)
1 role shown here
E
Exa
1 role shown here
B
Browserbase
1 role shown here
H
Hightouch
1 role shown here
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Top companies
OpenAI6
Robinhood6
Pinterest6
Roblox6
Fivetran 6
Stripe5
Chime Financial, Inc5
Discord5
Location
CA75
Remote (US)5
Salary band
Yearly USD postings only — nothing here is converted or estimated.
$150k+24
$100k – $150k1
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Finding Backend Engineer jobs worth applying to

Topezia lists Backend Engineer jobs from employers who are genuinely hiring right now, not a stale scrape of postings nobody's looked at in weeks. Every listing here is pulled straight from the employer's own careers page or applicant-tracking system, then checked again against that same source multiple times a day. When a role is paused, filled or quietly pulled, it comes off this page within about a day rather than sitting here as a dead link — so the 113 openings you see are ones you can actually act on today.

Backend Engineer jobs here span the full range of seniority Topezia has classified this way, from entry-level and junior openings through senior, staff and leadership titles.

Verified, not just collected

Most job boards will happily show you a posting that closed weeks ago. Topezia re-confirms every one of these Backend Engineer jobs against the employer's own page on a regular cadence, and anything that's gone quiet is pulled rather than left up to waste your time. That's also why the count on this page moves — it's a live number, not one frozen the day this page happened to be built.

Pay, exactly as posted

Where an employer publishes a salary or rate for one of these Backend Engineer jobs, it's shown exactly as written — no rounding it up to look better, no converting it out of the currency it was actually posted in. Where nothing was published, the card says nothing rather than guessing; an invented number would be a worse answer than an honest gap.

Match scores instead of guesswork

Upload a resume once — or connect a Topezia profile — and every listing on this page gets scored against what you've actually done, gaps included. That honest score is what the resume builder and application tracker build on next, so you spend your next application on Backend Engineer roles you're a real fit for, not a hopeful guess.

New Backend Engineer jobs are added throughout the day as ingestion runs. Save this search for a digest of the ones that match your profile, or browse every category if Backend Engineer isn't where your next move is.

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Common questions

How often are Backend Engineer jobs checked?

Multiple times a day, against the employer's own posting. When a role closes or is pulled, it comes off this page within about a day rather than sitting here as a dead link.

Do these listings show salary?

When an employer publishes a range, yes — shown exactly as posted, in the currency they used. When they don't publish one, the card leaves it blank rather than guessing.

What experience levels are included?

This list already spans every seniority Topezia has data for under Backend Engineer — entry-level through senior and leadership titles. The related links below narrow further by location or by a more specific role.

Are remote roles included?

Yes, wherever they exist for this category — each card is tagged with its location or remote scope so you know before you click through.