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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

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Hiring trend

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Remote options

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Typical salary

$177.2K – $177.2K/yr

Based on 29 salary observations

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. About the Role, Mission or Department Overview We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to shape and lead our People Data & Insights team by turning complex HR questions into scalable, automated solutions. In this high-visibility role, you will partner directly with HR leadership to create our roadmap while managing the end-to-end lifecycle from intake to delivery. You will spend equal time translating business needs with stakeholders and partnering with engineers on technical execution. Beyond building tools, you will own the critical final mile by driving adoption and ensuring leaders understand and trust the insights we deliver. You will report to our Senior Director, People Data & Insights. Responsibilities: You will handle sensitive people data and own the roadmap for people data solutions, from intake through launch, and adoption You will oversee request intake and the prioritization process ensuring requesters understand what is being built, what is not, and why You will translate business questions into solution requirements You will partner daily with the Analytics Engineer and Solutions Architect on scoping, sequencing, and delivery You will build the education layer into the solution itself. You will partner on data governance, contribute to the data dictionary, and hold the line on metric definitions You will manage stakeholders across HR, Technology, Legal, and the business, including senior leaders. You will demonstr

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📍 Armonk, NY, United States
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JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. What this job involves - JLL is seeking a Director of Global Occupancy Planning & Management to lead strategic space planning initiatives across APAC, LATAM, and AMER regions. This role provides crucial global leadership in delivering JLL's best practices through Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools while partnering closely with client real estate teams to drive tactical and strategic planning aligned with portfolio objectives. What is your day-to-day? Strategic Leadership & Accountability Provide strategic oversight of multiple regions while driving consistency, innovation, and excellence across global real estate portfolios Manage global OP account budget for occupancy planning across APAC, LATAM, and AMER, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency Own and manage strategic multi-regional relationships, serving as executive-level point of contact for key client stakeholders Drive space planning and data management programs to help client achieve real estate and workplace objectives Team Leadership & People Management Lead and manage a global team of occupancy planners across three regions with full accountability for performance outcomes Structure, staff, and manage team with clarity of e

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📍 Texas, Austin, United States
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Job Details: Job Description: Responsible for managing the relationship between Intel Data Center and AI (DCAI) and Dell ISG with focus on driving sales strategy of existing Xeon and AI product offerings while expanding Intel design portfolio within Dell's future roadmap to ensure the acceleration of Xeon and AI adoption. Through the design-in process, demonstrate the skills to showcase a quantifiable preference to Intel technology and integrate key learnings into Intel and Dell marketing organizations. The role is critical to establish great relationships and trust with key individuals at Dell and Intel business units and help both companies understand each other's challenges, opportunities to work towards a solution(s) that allows both companies to succeed. The candidate will have enough technical depth to understand the Intel product roadmap, the customer roadmap needs and what the competition is offering and intelligently recommend how to sell the Intel value proposition. Key Responsibilities include: Serve as sales and technical lead for multiple Dell PowerEdge and AI server programs based on Intel Xeon processors and AI accelerators, and collaborate with marketing team to drive complete end-to-end execution. Partner closely with Intel and Dell engineering, product, marketing, and program teams worldwide to align on features, schedules, quality, and issue resolution, ensuring successful product execution. Drive strategic design-win engagements for future Intel Xeon and AI accelerator products, influencing both Intel and Dell roadmaps through deep customer insight, competitive analysis, and early requirements gathering. Act as the primary interface between Intel and Dell, rapidly resolving business and technical issues, managing escalations, and ensuring the highest levels of cus

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels. About the role We’re looking for a Product Marketing Manager, Advertising to help bring together advertiser insights, market understanding, and product knowledge to inform positioning, support product priorities, and execute go-to-market initiatives that drive adoption and measurable business impact. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Partnerships to understand advertiser needs, translate complex AI capabilities into clear customer value, and bring new products and features to market. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with hands-on execution, can independently drive clearly scoped workstreams, and is eager to grow their strategic ownership in a fast-moving environment. In this role, you will: Contribute to the product and marketing strategy for a defined area of OpenAI’s advertising business in partnership with senior product marketers and cross-functional partners. Build an understanding of advertisers through customer research, market analysis, and competitive insights, identifying opportunities to improve positioning, adoption, and the customer experience. Develop and maintain positioning and messaging for assigned products or fe

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly, our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and – in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders – seek to shape policy so that it aligns with and supports our mission. About the role OpenAI is looking for an Applied Risk Standards Specialist to lead standards work for applied risk in applications, including mental health, youth safety, age assurance, functional efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks. You will help turn internal research, safety policies, and evaluation methods into technically sound, measurable, and adaptable standards that build public trust and support responsible deployment. This role sits within our AI standards and global assurance function in Global Affairs. Working closely with Safety Systems, Research, Product, Model Policy, Legal, and third-party evaluators, you will author proposals, negotiate requirements, and represent OpenAI in priority standards bodies. You will take on the drafting and external engagement needed to advance this work, enabling technical experts to focus on the underlying methods and evidence. You will also bring emerging requirements back into internal planning before they become established expectations. Alongside this primary portfolio, you will support the AI Standards and Global Assurance Lead on frontier AI assurance, contributing to risk-management standards, evaluation and benchmarking requirements, and approaches to independent assessment. The role connects technical practice with external standards. It does not replace t

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📍 United States· Remote
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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 We are seeking an accomplished Principal Cloud Storage Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of our private cloud storage platforms. This role will focus on large-scale storage architecture, data protection, cyber recovery, and resiliency technologies across complex enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in storage systems with strong leadership, architectural vision, and the ability to influence technical direction across the organization. Key Responsibilities Architect and engineer enterprise storage platforms that ensure data integrity, availability, security, and disaster recovery readiness Design and implement end-to-end storage solutions, including Software Defined Storage, SAN, NAS, and object storage across private cloud and data center environments Drive strategic technology decisions by evaluating emerging products, tools, and standards supporting storage, data protection, cloud, and compute platforms Lead infrastructure initiatives involving storage modernization, data protection, cyber recovery, data migration, and resilience engineering Develop and execute enterprise strategies for backup, recovery, cyber vaulting, and business continuity Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of storage architectures, configurations, policies, and operation

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📍 New York, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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 The Senior Manager, Market Intelligence will lead strategic workstreams end-to-end, directing team analysis and shaping executive-ready recommendations on the enterprise's most important growth and corporate development questions. Partnering closely with the Enterprise Strategy team, this role drives market research, competitive analysis, and project management to identify growth opportunities, assess markets, and support M&A and partnership evaluation. The Senior Manager will leverage AI-enabled research and market intelligence tools to accelerate insight generation and inform enterprise decision-making, while coaching junior colleagues and building alignment across senior stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Lead one or more Market Intelligence workstreams by defining scope, structuring plans, and adjusting course as priorities evolve. Analyze market trends, competitive dynamics, macroeconomic factors, and growth opportunities to shape strategic recommendations. Direct hypothesis-driven analysis, ensuring insights are accurate, timely, and decision-ready. Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear points of view by challenging assumptions, reconciling differing perspectives, and connecting findings to broader strategic implications. Craft executive-ready narratives, business cases, and recommendations

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📍 Woonsocket 1 Cvs Drive, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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 CVS Health is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Sr. Manager to lead and manage our enterprise Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environment and the transition to Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). This role sits within the Network Engineering team and is pivotal to driving the modernization and scalability of our next-generation data center fabric. This role will help set and drive the network technology strategy for ISTS, ensuring that ISTS delivers on our mission to transform technology and provide an agile, cost optimized and resilient set of network infrastructure services to meet the evolving needs of all the CVS Health lines of business. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting complex enterprise network environments and demonstrate deep expertise in Cisco ACI and NDFC technologies. As a strategic leader, you will be responsible for setting the direction, leading a team of engineers, and ensuring the operational integrity, performance, and evolution of our fabric-based data center architecture. This position will also mentor staff members in an effort to develop excellent enterprise networking skills. Key Responsibilities Lead the deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of the Cisco ACI environment Oversee the strategic transition to and ongoing management of the Cisco

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📍 Work At Home Massachusetts, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead engineering teams building a best-in-class consumer health experience on the Health100 platform, focused on identifying, prioritizing, shaping, and executing complex platform initiatives. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will drive innovation, manage cross-functional teams, and deliver scalable cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions that improve consumer experiences and business outcomes. This role works within a top-notch organization of software developers who identify, design, and deliver technology solutions using Java, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI-powered capabilities to achieve defined business value. You will guide the integration and validation of complex technology solutions, drive engineering excellence, and leverage emerging technologies including Generative AI and intelligent automation to accelerate innovation and efficiency *Remote eligible within the United States. Preference for candidates in close proximity to our Woonsocket, RI headquarters. Resp

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📍 Woonsocket, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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 The Senior Manager of Pickup Innovations and Execution drives forward the strategic innovation of cutting-edge point of sale solutions for pharmacy pick up processes. This role will oversee the current execution of an enhanced and seamless patient experience while managing the POS platform for enterprise offerings and services. As a Sr Manager, you will lead and oversee the prioritization and implementation of pickup functionality with key stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure compliance, regulatory, and growth opportunities are being integrated during the pickup process. You will drive the patient and customer experience through innovating workflows, patient prompting/notifications, and the overall design/functionality of the point-of-sale system. You will also oversee peripheral processes that include Waiting Bin inventories for financial reconciliation, Reconstitution execution, and Drive Thru/Fill Master maintenance with our outside vendors. Key Responsibilities: Lead implementation of Rx POS innovation and enhancements, ensuring alignment with business goals, financial objectives, and customer/colleague priorities. Oversee day to day Rx POS execution including system support, reporting, and customer ser

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📍 Work At Home, United States
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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 As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead product strategy and roadmap development for the organization's Epic electronic health record (EHR) platform and integrated clinical informatics tools. You will own the product strategy and requirements for our Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) domain, which is focused on CDI, coding, billing, collections, integrity and analytics. These are critical for ensuring the end to end workflow from accurate clinical documentation to appropriate coding and A/R completeness. You’ll apply deep Epic platform expertise, user-centric design, and agile methodologies to drive adoption, quality, and safety across enterprise informatics initiatives to improve healthcare delivery for our patients. What You'll Do Responsible for defining the product vision and strategic direction for your Epic Domain, ensuring continuous alignment with senior business and engineering leaders. You'll translate high-level business goals into a clear, actionable product strategy that are tied to OKRs. Partner with business stakeholders to define the product roadmap, overseeing day-to-day backlog management and prioritization to ensure alignment with your strategic vision. You will assess value and develop business cases to inform the nature and scope of new initiatives. This includes evaluating buy vs. build opportunities and identifying

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📍 Hartford, United States
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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 In this role as Manager – FP&A business, you will report to the Lead Director of Service Ops FP&A. You will be responsible for consolidating, reporting and the creation of management presentations and or talking points for forecasts, budget and the strategic plan for the Operations Enablement & Provider Services (OEPS) org within Service Ops. This role will work closely with various leaders within the Business, as well as Finance, ensuring accurate reporting of forecasts, budgets, and strategic plans and providing senior leadership with the appropriate level of detail. The successful candidate should demonstrate strong communication skills, the skill to develop a deep understanding of expense allocations, and the ability to consolidate and report results to business partners and management. You must be able to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment, work independently with guidance from management, and deliver financial reporting and analysis on both regular and ad hoc frequencies, including creating financial models and supporting exhibits in PowerPoint. We are looking for individuals with a solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and analytical financial reporting. Required Qualifications Minimum of 5 years of experience Ability to develop reporting and consolidate results to business p

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📍 Work From Hom, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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 CVS Health is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer, Agentic AI Platform to join and lead engineering efforts for Lumina, CVS Health's enterprise knowledge and agentic AI platform. The Senior Full Stack Engineer, Agentic AI Platform will provide both technical and people leadership while driving the evolution of a platform that delivers trusted, secure, and governed AI experiences across the enterprise. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, Agentic AI Platform, you will own the technical direction, architecture, scalability, and operational excellence of Lumina while leading a team of engineers and data scientists responsible for building and supporting the platform. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring active contribution to production code, architectural decision-making, code reviews, and engineering best practices, while simultaneously coaching and developing team members. The Senior Full Stack Engineer, Agentic AI Platform will play a critical role in advancing agentic AI capabilities, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, enterprise search, knowledge ingestion, and AI governance. You will drive platform enhancements that improve retrieval quality, strengthen security and access controls, expand automation capabilities, and ensure the platform remains reliable, observable, and scalable as adoption accelerates across CVS

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📍 Englewood, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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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. Title: Center Medical Director Company: Oak Street Health Role Description: The purpose of the Center Medical Director role at Oak Street Health is to lead the clinical team at their center in providing the best patient care and a great place to work in order to keep patients happy, healthy and out of the hospital. The Medical Director will practice primary care in our clinics alongside their provider colleagues at 80% clinical time and 20% administrative time. The CMD will have mission-critical leadership responsibilities, which include setting an example for how thoughtful primary care is practiced, serving as a formal mentor, coach, and advisor to providers in Oak Street clinics, and participating in critical organizational-wide strategic initiatives. Core Responsibilities: The Center Medical Director is the medical leader for his/her OSH center. In this role the CMD will have the following responsibilities: Support of Organizational Strategy Work in tight collaboration with the Practice Manager and Outreach Manager/Director to achieve our organizational objectives: Best Care Anywhere Unmatched Patient Experience Exceptional Growth Great Place to Work and Leader in DE&I Drive implementation of OSH strategic initiatives. Follow direction

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📍 Work At Home Connecticut, United States
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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. CVS Health is seeking an SDET Manager to lead Quality Engineering and software delivery transformation across the Medicare Sales & Acquisition ecosystem. This role is critical to modernizing how we build, test, and deliver software, including embedding AI-driven capabilities into the SDLC. You will translate business workflows (Sales, Enrollment, Broker, and Telesales) into scalable, automated testing solutions that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving test automation strategy, enabling intelligent SDLC pipelines, and building a high-performing engineering team aligned to enterprise goals. This role will also help shape the team's transition toward AWS-native test infrastructure and agent-orchestrated cycles, positioning the organization to scale automation alongside delivery volume in future years. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of AI-augmented Quality Engineering solutions — including agentic test generation, self-healing frameworks, and AI-assisted defect analysis — advancing the SDLC toward an AI-driven Automated Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) Drive the migration of automation frameworks and test data management onto AWS-native services (e.g., Bedrock for model orchestration, Lambda/Step Functions for event-driven test pipelines), enabling

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