Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX
Backend Engineer jobs in Austin, Texas are concentrated in the Domain, Downtown, and East Austin tech corridor, with strong demand from fintech, enterprise SaaS, and cloud infrastructure companies. Employers hiring right now include Commerce, Realtor, and QUO. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Software Engineer III - Backend Search and Retrieval Systems
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Indeed
Software Engineer III - Backend Search and Retrieval Systems
Austin, Texas
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Software Engineer III - Backend Search and Retrieval Systems
Indeed·Austin, Texas
Job functions:
$164k - $197k/yr
Remote (US)
Military encouraged
10,000+ employees
Job Description
Our Mission
As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.
(*Comscore, Total Visits, March 2026)
Day to Day
- Write software to fulfill larger, less well-defined full-stack work requests and backend recommendation and search features for the main site-search engine.
- Take on large, loosely defined priorities and broad technical challenges, independently researching, designing, and implementing solutions within our large-scale distributed architecture from scratch without requiring granular product management specifications.
- Own, improve, and evaluate services in production by analyzing logs, traces, and metrics to understand performance and business value- prioritize, investigate, and implement fixes for performance, reliability, and efficacy.
- Proactively analyze logs, trace metrics, manage resource utilization, and resolve issues before they impact users or SLAs.
- Perform deep systems analysis to act as an escalation point for complex distributed systems issues, untangling and fixing problems across both legacy and modern codebases, inside and outside of the services that the team owns.
- Serve as a technical bridge for cross-functional collaboration by digging into what partner teams are building, conducting design and code reviews, and ensuring interacting architectures align with our operational standards and SLAs.
- Evaluate high-level architectural decisions that balance engineering time against infrastructure costs (e.g., deciding whether to optimize an algorithm or scale compute power to free up engineering resources).
- Lead process improvements, write comprehensive system documentation, and mentor peer and junior engineers by providing constructive feedback on code, design, and execution.
- Independently identify and design new systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new features and products, as well as improve quality, scalability, and performance.
- Work with business partners to clarify requirements, to decompose large requests into smaller ones that can be executed sequentially or in parallel, and to refine and clarify Product and Engineering goals and ensure that they align with company objectives and are sufficiently defined for junior developers to successfully work on.
- Share your expertise on products and technologies by mentoring other engineers and by helping them prioritize work items based on urgency, business impact, and goals.
Position is in Austin, Texas. Up to 100% telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related computer technical field.
- Five (5) years of experience in a software developer-related occupation.
- Three (3) years of experience in: analyzing software and customer requirements, and preparing a development plans, including estimation, risks, analysis, unit tests, functional tests,and code design; investigating issues related to products/computer software applications, analyzing code, deployments, and logs for origins of bugs, and recommending solutions; implementing software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including requirement gathering, coding standards, peer code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations; and analyzing third-party tools and software and providing recommendations based on analysis.
- Two (2) years of experience in: investigating and characterizing the performance of a distributed web-app, and identifying opportunities to improve performance; designing and operating large-scale, globally distributed recommendation and search architectures handling high transactional throughput across extensive machine fleets, while balancing architectural requirements between search/retrieval and usage-based optimization algorithms and maintaining personalization in both; designing and building test harnesses for n-tier applications utilizing service APIs, mocked data/stubbed responses, stored request data, and stored results for regression and performance testing; implementing, engineering, executing, tracking, troubleshooting, and documenting configuration management projects; and performing build engineering and defining dependencies in quality assurance, pre-production, and production environments utilizing build tools.
Education and experience may be gained concurrently.
Multiple positions available.
Salary Range Transparency
Salary range: $163,550 to $197,000 per year.
Salary Range Disclaimer
The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site (https://www.indeed.com/careers/paytiers), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.
Benefits - Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing
We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits!
Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement
Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
Indeed provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please visit https://www.indeed.com/careers/accommodations. If you are requesting accommodation for an interview, please reach out at least one week in advance of your interview.
For more information about our commitment to equal opportunity/affirmative action, please visit our Careers page (https://www.indeed.com/careers).
Inclusion & Belonging
Inclusion and belonging are fundamental to our hiring practices and company culture, forming an integral part of our vision for a better world of work. At Indeed, we’re committed to the wellbeing of our employees and on a mission to make this the best place to work and thrive. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment where every employee feels respected and accepted benefits everyone, fueling innovation and creativity.
We value diverse experiences, including those who have had prior contact with the criminal legal system. We are committed to providing individuals with criminal records, including formerly incarcerated individuals, a fair chance at employment.
Those with military experience are encouraged to apply.
Indeed’s Employee Recruiting Privacy Policy
Like other employers Indeed uses our own technologies to help us find and attract top talent from around the world. In addition to our site’s user and privacy policy found at https://www.indeed.com/legal, we also want to make you aware of our recruitment specific privacy policy found at https://www.indeed.com/legal/indeed-jobs.
Agency Disclaimer
Agency Disclaimer
Indeed does not pay placement fees for unsolicited resumes or referrals from non-candidates, including search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies (each individually, an "Agency"), subject to local laws. An Agency seeking a placement fee must obtain advance written approval from Indeed's internal Talent Acquisition team and execute a fee agreement with Indeed for each job opening before making a referral or submitting a resume for that opening.
AI Notice
Indeed is committed to ensuring fairness and transparency throughout our hiring process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of applicants for this position by analyzing information provided in resumes and applications. Our use of AI does not replace human decision-making.
Unless otherwise notified, Indeed does not use AI constituting an AEDT or an ADMT as those tools are defined in applicable laws.
Reference ID: 47562
The deadline to apply to this position is September 18th, 2026.
#IND123
Reference ID: 47562
Indeed
Software Engineer III - Backend Search and Retrieval Systems
Austin, Texas
Added 2d ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$164k - $197k/yr
Remote (US)
Military encouraged
Job Description
Our Mission
As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.
(*Comscore, Total Visits, March 2026)
Day to Day
- Write software to fulfill larger, less well-defined full-stack work requests and backend recommendation and search features for the main site-search engine.
- Take on large, loosely defined priorities and broad technical challenges, independently researching, designing, and implementing solutions within our large-scale distributed architecture from scratch without requiring granular product management specifications.
- Own, improve, and evaluate services in production by analyzing logs, traces, and metrics to understand performance and business value- prioritize, investigate, and implement fixes for performance, reliability, and efficacy.
- Proactively analyze logs, trace metrics, manage resource utilization, and resolve issues before they impact users or SLAs.
- Perform deep systems analysis to act as an escalation point for complex distributed systems issues, untangling and fixing problems across both legacy and modern codebases, inside and outside of the services that the team owns.
- Serve as a technical bridge for cross-functional collaboration by digging into what partner teams are building, conducting design and code reviews, and ensuring interacting architectures align with our operational standards and SLAs.
- Evaluate high-level architectural decisions that balance engineering time against infrastructure costs (e.g., deciding whether to optimize an algorithm or scale compute power to free up engineering resources).
- Lead process improvements, write comprehensive system documentation, and mentor peer and junior engineers by providing constructive feedback on code, design, and execution.
- Independently identify and design new systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new features and products, as well as improve quality, scalability, and performance.
- Work with business partners to clarify requirements, to decompose large requests into smaller ones that can be executed sequentially or in parallel, and to refine and clarify Product and Engineering goals and ensure that they align with company objectives and are sufficiently defined for junior developers to successfully work on.
- Share your expertise on products and technologies by mentoring other engineers and by helping them prioritize work items based on urgency, business impact, and goals.
Position is in Austin, Texas. Up to 100% telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related computer technical field.
- Five (5) years of experience in a software developer-related occupation.
- Three (3) years of experience in: analyzing software and customer requirements, and preparing a development plans, including estimation, risks, analysis, unit tests, functional tests,and code design; investigating issues related to products/computer software applications, analyzing code, deployments, and logs for origins of bugs, and recommending solutions; implementing software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including requirement gathering, coding standards, peer code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations; and analyzing third-party tools and software and providing recommendations based on analysis.
- Two (2) years of experience in: investigating and characterizing the performance of a distributed web-app, and identifying opportunities to improve performance; designing and operating large-scale, globally distributed recommendation and search architectures handling high transactional throughput across extensive machine fleets, while balancing architectural requirements between search/retrieval and usage-based optimization algorithms and maintaining personalization in both; designing and building test harnesses for n-tier applications utilizing service APIs, mocked data/stubbed responses, stored request data, and stored results for regression and performance testing; implementing, engineering, executing, tracking, troubleshooting, and documenting configuration management projects; and performing build engineering and defining dependencies in quality assurance, pre-production, and production environments utilizing build tools.
Education and experience may be gained concurrently.
Multiple positions available.
Salary Range Transparency
Salary range: $163,550 to $197,000 per year.
Salary Range Disclaimer
The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site (https://www.indeed.com/careers/paytiers), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.
Benefits - Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing
We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits!
Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement
Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
Indeed provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please visit https://www.indeed.com/careers/accommodations. If you are requesting accommodation for an interview, please reach out at least one week in advance of your interview.
For more information about our commitment to equal opportunity/affirmative action, please visit our Careers page (https://www.indeed.com/careers).
Inclusion & Belonging
Inclusion and belonging are fundamental to our hiring practices and company culture, forming an integral part of our vision for a better world of work. At Indeed, we’re committed to the wellbeing of our employees and on a mission to make this the best place to work and thrive. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment where every employee feels respected and accepted benefits everyone, fueling innovation and creativity.
We value diverse experiences, including those who have had prior contact with the criminal legal system. We are committed to providing individuals with criminal records, including formerly incarcerated individuals, a fair chance at employment.
Those with military experience are encouraged to apply.
Indeed’s Employee Recruiting Privacy Policy
Like other employers Indeed uses our own technologies to help us find and attract top talent from around the world. In addition to our site’s user and privacy policy found at https://www.indeed.com/legal, we also want to make you aware of our recruitment specific privacy policy found at https://www.indeed.com/legal/indeed-jobs.
Agency Disclaimer
Agency Disclaimer
Indeed does not pay placement fees for unsolicited resumes or referrals from non-candidates, including search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies (each individually, an "Agency"), subject to local laws. An Agency seeking a placement fee must obtain advance written approval from Indeed's internal Talent Acquisition team and execute a fee agreement with Indeed for each job opening before making a referral or submitting a resume for that opening.
AI Notice
Indeed is committed to ensuring fairness and transparency throughout our hiring process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of applicants for this position by analyzing information provided in resumes and applications. Our use of AI does not replace human decision-making.
Unless otherwise notified, Indeed does not use AI constituting an AEDT or an ADMT as those tools are defined in applicable laws.
Reference ID: 47562
The deadline to apply to this position is September 18th, 2026.
#IND123
Reference ID: 47562
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- Energy
- Fintech
- News & Publishing
- Banking & Financial Services
Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a backend engineer job in Austin?
Focus your search on Austin's fintech corridor along the Domain and Downtown, where enterprise SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and payments companies concentrate most of their engineering headcount. Familiarity with distributed systems, API design, and cloud platforms like AWS or GCP gives candidates a clear edge in this market. Attending local meetups in the Austin tech scene also puts you in front of hiring engineers before roles are posted.
Which companies hire backend engineers in Austin?
Employers hiring backend engineers in Austin right now include Commerce, Realtor, and QUO, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Austin's mix of established tech campuses, high-growth fintech startups, and enterprise software firms keeps backend engineering demand broad and consistent across company sizes.
Are there remote backend engineer jobs in Austin?
Yes, backend engineering is among the most remote-compatible disciplines in tech, given that the work centers on code, APIs, and infrastructure rather than on-site equipment. About 78% of backend engineer openings tied to Austin are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how widely distributed engineering teams have become here. Roles focused on cloud services and microservices architecture tend to offer the most location flexibility.
How can I get a backend engineer job in Austin with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Austin is landing a junior or associate backend role at one of the city's many growth-stage startups in the Domain or East Austin, where smaller engineering teams often onboard early-career developers faster than large enterprises. Contributing to open-source projects, building portfolio APIs, and completing internships at Austin-based SaaS or fintech companies all strengthen a candidate's case. Roles like QA automation engineer or DevOps associate frequently serve as lateral entry points into backend engineering teams locally.
Which industries hire the most backend engineers in Austin?
Most backend engineer openings in Austin sit in Technology & Software, Energy, and Fintech, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Austin's long-standing concentration of enterprise software campuses and its fast-growing fintech and cloud services ecosystem drive the sustained demand for backend talent across those sectors.
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