Senior backend engineering jobs

If you're a senior backend engineer with 5+ years, the right role is usually 2 ATS pages away — not on the top of LinkedIn's feed. Zeeker crawls 1,200+ company career pages so you don't have to.

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Senior backend hiring in 2026 is a buyer's market for candidates who know how to find the listings. Companies are running leaner — Series B-D scale-ups especially — and the senior roles that get posted are real openings, not pipeline-building. The catch is that the best teams post on their ATS first, share once on Hacker News or X, and never push to job boards. By the time a senior backend role hits LinkedIn it's usually been open for 3+ weeks and the team is deep in interviews. The listings here are filtered for actual senior-band scope and linked direct so you can apply ahead of the LinkedIn queue.

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Senior backend engineering jobs

Senior Backend Engineer – Python & Rust (m/w/d) ML / AI - Healthcare (Graz, Linz oder Wien)

Senior Backend Engineer Rust

Senior Backend Engineer – Rust

Senior Backend Golang Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer (Go, Rust, Python, TS) - Bengaluru

Senior backend engineer - NodeJS / Rust

Senior Backend Developer (Rust)

Senior Backend Engineer – Rust

Senior Backend Engineer (Rust)

Senior Backend Engineer (Rust)

Senior Backend Engineer (Rust)

Senior Backend Engineer / Technical Lead (Go | Java | Node.js | Rust)

Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Engineer – Agents

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Senior Backend Dev (Rust and English)

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: AI Coding