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Lead Backend Software Engineer in United States

2,434 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

Explore current lead backend software engineer jobs across United States. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

Hiring demand

51/100

steady · 543 related jobs

Hiring trend

-76.6%

Job postings compared with the previous 30 days

Remote options

15.1%

Share of matching jobs listed as remote

Typical salary

$177.2K – $177.2K/yr

Based on 29 salary observations

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.2%
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About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are hiring a Lead, Ads Prospecting & Growth Intelligence to build the intelligence and orchestration platform powering OpenAI’s ads business. This person will help us identify the right companies and people, understand why they are relevant, determine the right next action, and learn from what happens afterward. Own the prospecting function for the ads business, serving SMB Ads while building a foundation reusable across segments. Set the vision, operating model, roadmap, platform choices, business rules, adoption, and outcomes; and partner with Ads Engineering, Data Science, and internal platform teams. Decide what to build in-house, enable through internal platforms, or deliver through selected vendors and partners. In This Role, You Will Lead the function’s strategy, roadmap, operating model, and adoption. Connect platform investments to measurable advertiser and business outcomes. Define a unified prospect, account, contact, and advertiser data model. Establish standards for identity, data quality, provenance, freshness, confidence, and consent. Combine market, intent, behavioral, product, CRM, campaign, and customer-success signals to improve targeting and customer engagement. Design enrichment and verification workflows. Evaluate in-house cap

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -85.6%

From $145.7K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . tvScientific by Pinterest is the Performance TV platform built for advertisers who want to drive measurable business outcomes. We combine media buying, optimization, measurement and attribution in one platform to make CTV a more accountable, effective performance channel. We’re looking for a Lead Ads Product Marketing Manager to oversee go-to-market strategy for tvScientific’s integration into Pinterest Ads Manager. You’ll turn complex product capabilities and performance insights into clear customer value, compelling narratives and launch programs that drive adoption. What you’ll do: Set and execute the go-to-market strategy for CTV capabilities in Pinterest Ads Manager, shaping positioning, messaging, launch planning, enablement and adoption across Product, Sales, Marketing and Pinterest Ads teams. Translate technical product capabiliti

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -85.6%

From $119.5K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The tvScientific by Pinterest team is building a new enterprise cross-sell motion focused on growing off-platform revenue in close partnership with Pinterest’s NAMER Enterprise sales team. As a Senior Client Partner, you’ll help establish how we go to market together across CTV, video and programmatic opportunities, creating a seamless experience for customers with integrated needs. You’ll play a key role in shaping the team’s operating model, strengthening collaboration across sales teams and driving incremental revenue across enterprise accounts. What you’ll do: Lead enterprise cross-sell efforts for tvScientific by Pinterest in partnership with Pinterest’s NAMER Enterprise sales team, with a focus on growing off-platform revenue across CTV, video and programmatic opportunities Build and execute joint account plans with Enterprise Client

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.2%
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About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation. Translate

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📍 Ncd 0375 Brooklyn Park, MN 55445, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +89.4%

$132K – $238K/yr

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The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . JOIN TARGET AS A LEAD FULL STACK ENGINEER - ADVANCED AI About us: Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here . About the role Target’s Advanced AI team

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📍 Ny Nyc Metro, United States· Remote
✓ Quality checkedDemand 51/100Company trend +310%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

Become a part of our caring community The Lead Software Engineer codes software applications based on business requirements. The Lead Software Engineer works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. The Lead Software Engineer standardizes the quality assurance procedure for software. Oversees testing and debugging and develops fixes. Researches complaints and makes necessary adjustments and/or recommendations to resolve complex software related issues. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision, Uses independent judgment requiring analysis of variable factors and determining the best course of action. Key Responsibilities Technical Architecture and Ownership:** Design and own the end-to-end architecture of Centerwell's AI systems, including LLM-powered clinical tools, RAG pipelines, harnesses, agent-based workflows, and intelligent automation. Make and communicate foundational technical decisions in close collaboration with the broader engineering team. Model Development and Fine-Tuning:** Evaluate, select, and where appropriate guide the fine-tuning of foundation models. Establish model evaluation frameworks that prioritize safety, accuracy, and clinical relevance. Clinical and Product Partnership:** Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, clinicians, and data stakeholders to understand care delivery workflows and translate them into well-scoped, high-impact AI features. HIPAA Compliance and Responsible AI:** Ensure all AI systems are designed, deployed, and monitored in compliance with HIPAA and Humana's Responsible AI standards, including participation i

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📍 Woonsocket, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary Health100 is America's trusted front door to health and care. The Health100 platform integrates any participating health plan, PBM, pharmacy (retail and specialty), provider, digital health point solution provider, and employer, and addresses the top health care challenges for the consumer. We are looking for a hands-on, passionate engineering leader to join a high-energy, mission-driven team on the forefront of digital health innovation — reinventing how consumers engage with their health. As the Lead Director of Software Engineering, you will lead the strategic vision, development, and execution of our platform engineering roadmap. You will drive innovation, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality products that exceed consumer expectations. As a key strategic leader, you will own integration strategy and execution across multiple domains, managing partner requirements, technical constraints, and external commitments while advancing platform modernization initiatives. You will partner closely with external stakeholders, understand their technical constraints and success criteria, and communicate risks and feasibility clearly in both technical and business terms. Responsibilities: </

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📍 Huntington Beach, Canada
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +515.8%

Lead Electrophysics Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS) is seeking highly motivated Lead Electrophysics Engineer (Level 5) to support various programs located in Huntington Beach, CA, Seal Beach, CA , or El Segundo, CA . As a part of one or more Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) teams, you will provide technical engineering and program support, while serving as the core point of contact between your payload products and the broader system team. In this role you will serve as the technical owner for a range of RF related payload products, with an emphasis on system performance, integration, supplier technical management, and cross-organizational interface management. Your products will include both experimental and operational systems, extending through all lifecycle phases (early feasibility studies through operation and disposal). An ideal candidate will be highly motivated, with a strong technical background in RF and Radar systems, space environments, and RF payload integration onto air or space platforms. Position Responsibilities: Provide expertise over a broad range of radar related activities, including performance and trade studies of radar systems and architectures Oversee development and implementation of radar signal image processing techniques Perform system engineering and integration of Radar Warning Receivers (RWR) into various systems Developing Concept of Operations for the design and utilization of RF products Perform Mission Design and payload effectiveness analysis Lead technical teams, including subcontractors, to oversee hardware and processing

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📍 Louisville, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +310%

Become a part of our caring community Humana is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect – NoSQL Databases to provide strategic leadership, architecture direction, and engineering oversight for enterprise NoSQL database platforms across Humana’s cloud environments. This role will focus on the design, implementation, modernization, and governance of NoSQL database solutions, including MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, and vector database technologies. The successful candidate will help define and advance Humana's enterprise NoSQL strategy, support platform rationalization initiatives, and ensure database solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, automated, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. This role requires hands-on technical depth, strong cloud architecture experience, and the ability to collaborate across security, engineering, quality, application, and business teams. Key Responsibilities Develop, document, and maintain enterprise-wide NoSQL database standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Lead architecture and engineering efforts for NoSQL platforms including MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, and vector databases. Support NoSQL platform rationalization and modernization initiatives, including migration planning and execution from Cosmos DB to MongoDB where appropriate. Architect secure, highly available, scalable, and performant NoSQL database solutions across cloud environments, including Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform. Define database architecture patterns for document databases, graph databases, key-value workloads, and vector search use cases. Guide application teams on NoSQL data modeling, partitioning, indexing, query patterns, performance optimization, and operational readiness. Oversee automation of NoSQL provisioning, configuration, monit

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📍 Berkeley, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +515.8%

Lead RF Engineer - Aperture Architect Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security is seeking a Lead RF Engineer – Aperture Architect to serve as the engineering lead for the antennas and apertures on a major air proprietary program. As the Lead RF Engineer – Aperture Architect, you will provide technical leadership and drive technical execution in the development of advanced RF antennas that balance performance across sensing, structural, and low observable requirements. You will be the technical lead for a team of engineers designing and integrating modern RF apertures and antennas. You will work with the IPT leader and IPT Chief Engineer to ensure the team produces a compliant system design. Position Responsibilities: Drives technical excellence throughout all aperture design activities Provides technical leadership and ensures use of best practices across programs Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products, and processes. Works closely with program managers, program chief engineers, and other Boeing teams to ensure mission success and prompt resolution of anomalies Provides mentoring and coaching to other aperture design engineers Captures lessons learned and best practices for implementation on future programs Resolves complex problems impacting completion of program milestones Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience): Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement <

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📍 Herndon, United States
✓ Quality checkedDemand 51/100Company trend +515.8%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

Lead Java Software Engineer - Developer Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Software Engineer - Developer to join the Advanced Ground Architecture team located in Herndon, Virginia, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mesa, Arizona, Seal Beach, California and El Segundo, California. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Software Engineering organization. The Advanced Ground Architecture (AGA) software team is dynamic group of software engineers creating the future of Ground support with the extensibility and adaptability to be used across ALL Boeing programs. The software team is executing this vision through modern software technologies (Java, ReactJS, python, CI/CD pipelines) and methodologies (Scaled Agile). AGA is looking for self-motivated high performers to lead and execute the large scope of Java development needed for the program's vision. The ideal candidates will provide Java software development leadership for the Advanced Ground Architecture program, specifically the System Planning and Scheduling team. These positions will be responsible for accelerating complex java development, shepherding peer reviews for code merge requests at a faster cycle time, providing sub system leadership on key components, mentoring early and mid career software developers in AGA to be higher performers, and assisting P6 and Chief Engineering on architecture and software system engineering duties and decisions. These responsibilities are in addition to monitoring overall cost and schedule performance to meet or exceed expectations. Position Responsibilities: Oversees the design, deve

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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Become a part of our caring community You have shipped AI products before. You understand the difference between a demo and a production system. You have strong opinions about evaluation frameworks because you have experienced the consequences of operating without them. You are at your best when you own architecture decisions while continuing to build and deliver critical code yourself. We build the platform that transforms millions of clinical documents into trusted, actionable data. Our systems use large language models (LLMs) to read medical records, extract structured facts, answer complex questions with citations back to source documents, and route complex cases to human experts. The output of these systems supports healthcare decisions that impact real members. As a Lead AI Applied Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for AI-enabled products and platforms, define architectural direction, establish engineering standards, and personally design and build the most critical components of our systems. You will lead through both technical expertise and execution, helping the team deliver reliable, scalable, and auditable AI solutions in a highly regulated healthcare environment. Why Join Us Lead the architecture of production AI systems where LLMs are foundational to the product experience. Make key technical decisions regarding model selection, system boundaries, platform architecture, and build-versus-buy strategies. Own the highest-risk and highest-impact technical challenges involving reliability, explainability, and correctness. Influence engineering culture and establish standards that shape how the team builds and ships AI products. Work on systems operating at meaningful scale, processing millions of documents and supporting healthcare decisions across a large member population. Partner

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📍 Louisville, United States
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Become a part of our caring community Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Interactive Voice Response (IVR) team. In this role, you will deliver innovative IVR solutions and develop robust omnichannel APIs for our enterprise platforms. You will have the opportunity to drive the success of a high-impact, customer-facing application within a Fortune 50 company, working closely with multiple teams throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Lead Engineer –Omnichannel Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Omnichannel team. In this role, you will design, develop, secure, and enhance enterprise APIs that support high-impact, member facing, applications across Humana's digital and voice channels. This role offers the opportunity to modernize and strengthen existing API capabilities while helping deliver resilient, scalable, and secure omnichannel solutions within a Fortune 50 organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable Omnichannel APIs that support enterprise applications and customer-facing capabilities. Enhance the security, resiliency, performance, and reliability of existing APIs through modernization, improved architecture, observability, testing, and operational controls. Apply AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate development, improve quality, automate testing, enhance documentation, and identify opportunities for optimization. Partner with architecture, security, cloud, product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient, and enterprise-aligned API solutions. Collaborate with agile teams to plan, track, and deliver API enhancements, platform improvements, and cloud-based capabilities. Develop proofs of

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📍 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States
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Lead Data Scientist Ready to turn bold ideas into real-world impact? At Genpact, we don’t just adapt to change, we lead it. AI and digital innovation are transforming the way businesses work, and we’re at the forefront of it. Genpact’s AI Gigafactory , our industry-first accelerator, exemplifies how we scale advanced technology solutions to help global enterprises work smarter, grow faster, and transform at scale. Whether tackling complex challenges through large-scale models or agentic AI , our breakthrough solutions tackle companies’ most complex challenges. If you thrive in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment, love building and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions, and want to push the boundaries of what’s possible, this is your moment. Genpact (NYSE: G) is an agentic and advanced technology solutions company. We leverage process intelligence and artificial intelligence to deliver measurable outcomes. With a strong partner ecosystem and decades of client trust, we provide innovative solutions that transform how businesses run. Powered by a team with an active learning mindset and client centricity at its core, we deliver lasting value for the world’s leading enterprises. Get to know us at genpact.com and on LinkedIn , YouTube , X , and Facebook . Job Description The Artificial Intelligence Lead Data Scientist is responsible for leading the development and implementation

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📍 Pittsburgh, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary: Curious what a career in a closed-door pharmacy setting could look like? Join our Omnicare pharmacy team as a Support Staff member and work in a collaborative environment focused on delivering the best customer support. Day in the Life: As a Front-End, Pharmacy Support Staff member, you will assist in order entry tasks and medication dispensing processes. Our front-end team is focused on entering in orders, working alongside the pharmacist to ensure accuracy, and providing best in customer service. Additional tasks and responsibilities include: Calculating and/or verifying correct dosage based on prescriptions Entering new and refilling orders in a timely and accurate manner Preparing backup pharmacy orders Complying with a process that addresses all state and federal guidelines regarding medication labeling The Team: Omnicare, a CVS Health Company, provides care to those in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and chronic care settings. Although Omnicare pharmacies are not open to the public, you’ll work amongst great colleagues in a supportive environment aligned with the company’s mission, allowing our customers to focus on giving their patients the best care. Required Qualifications: Certification/licensed/registered pharmacy t

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