San Jose, CA
Backend Engineer Jobs in San Jose
Silicon Valley proper — semiconductors, hardware and enterprise software headquarters. Backend engineers build APIs, data models and services. Expect interview focus on schema design, concurrency, caching and API contracts.
- Open roles
- 4
- Remote-eligible
- 0
- Sponsorship signals
- 0
- Median salary
- —
Open backend engineer roles in San Jose
- Principal Fullstack/Backend Software Engineer, User ConnectionsRoblox · San Mateo, CA, United StatesonsiteleadQuick applyPosted 13 hours ago
- Principal Software Engineer, Backend - SharingRoblox · San Mateo, CA, United StatesonsiteleadQuick applyPosted 13 hours ago
- Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Co-ExperienceRoblox · San Mateo, CA, United StatesonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 13 hours ago
- Staff+ Software Engineer, BackendAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYhybridstaffQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
Hiring in San Jose right now
San Jose employers posted 4 backend engineer roles in the last five days. Few of these listings publish a salary range; national bands for this role run $115k–$190k.
Local hiring skews toward Java, Go, Python, PostgreSQL. If your resume doesn't name those tools in the same words the job description uses, an ATS keyword filter is the most likely reason you never hear back.
Skills to lead with
- Java
- Go
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs
- Microservices
Companies hiring in San Jose
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