Staff Backend Engineer Jobs
Staff backend engineer jobs are open across fintech, healthtech, enterprise software, and cloud infrastructure, at every level from senior engineer to principal and staff, with specializations in distributed systems, API design, and database architecture. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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:
Looking for a career that rewards you? As a Back-End Pharmacy Technician with Omnicare, you will not only find rewarding work in your community, but a team focused on providing a supportive and innovative team environment for all members.
Day In The Life:
As an Back-End Pharmacy Technician, you will work to ensure all medication needs and regulatory standards are met for our patients. You will work in various workstations allowing you to grow your skillsets further. Our back-end team focuses on order fulfillment in our closed-door pharmacy setting, including packaging and dispensing of medication, reviewing delivery orders and bins for accuracy, and coordinating stock rotations. Additional tasks and responsibilities include:
- Rotating and working in various assigned pharmacy workstations including: Packaging, Staging, Returns, Receiving, Narcotics, IV, Ekit, Compounding, Omnicell Cycle Fill, Machine Packaging
- Receiving product deliveries, pull and stage product for distribution, rotate stock, and coordinate activities with drivers to ensure shipments are accurate and deliveries are timely
- Performing physical inventories of medication
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 technician or as required by state law
- One (1) or more years of experience as a pharmacy technician or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Skills/Experience, but not Required:
- Prior experience in the long-term care industry
- Prior experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
- PTCB National Certification
- Five (5) or more years of experience as a pharmacy technician or equivalent experience
Education:
- Verifiable High School Diploma or GED
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$16.00 - $26.21This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/31/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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:
Looking for a career that rewards you? As a Back-End Pharmacy Technician with Omnicare, you will not only find rewarding work in your community, but a team focused on providing a supportive and innovative team environment for all members.
Day In The Life:
As an Back-End Pharmacy Technician, you will work to ensure all medication needs and regulatory standards are met for our patients. You will work in various workstations allowing you to grow your skillsets further. Our back-end team focuses on order fulfillment in our closed-door pharmacy setting, including packaging and dispensing of medication, reviewing delivery orders and bins for accuracy, and coordinating stock rotations. Additional tasks and responsibilities include:
- Rotating and working in various assigned pharmacy workstations including: Packaging, Staging, Returns, Receiving, Narcotics, IV, Ekit, Compounding, Omnicell Cycle Fill, Machine Packaging
- Receiving product deliveries, pull and stage product for distribution, rotate stock, and coordinate activities with drivers to ensure shipments are accurate and deliveries are timely
- Performing physical inventories of medication
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 technician or as required by state law
- One (1) or more years of experience as a pharmacy technician or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Skills/Experience, but not Required:
- Prior experience in the long-term care industry
- Prior experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
- PTCB National Certification
- Five (5) or more years of experience as a pharmacy technician or equivalent experience
Education:
- Verifiable High School Diploma or GED
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$16.00 - $26.21This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/31/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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Who's Hiring
- CVS Health29
- ALTRUIST16
- Tillster11
- Affirm7
- Rippling7
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software36
- Insurance9
- Hospitality & Tourism3
- Banking & Financial Services3
- Consulting & Professional Services3
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff backend engineer jobs.
- 7 or more years of professional software engineering experience with backend systems
- Deep proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Python, or Rust at production scale
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems or microservices architectures
- Strong command of relational and NoSQL databases, query optimization, and data modeling
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code tooling
Tips for Your Staff Backend Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to system scale
Staff-level postings expect evidence of scope, not just skills. Rewrite your bullet points to show the size of systems you've owned, the number of services you've architected, and the cross-team impact of your technical decisions, not just the languages you used.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff backend engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies by engineering stage
Staff engineers are hired differently at a Series B startup versus a public company. Early-stage roles want you to set architectural norms from scratch. Late-stage roles need someone to modernize legacy systems. Read the job description for which problem they're actually solving.
Show technical leadership without a title
If you haven't held a staff title yet, your resume still needs to reflect staff-level scope. Document times you drove cross-team alignment on a technical decision, mentored senior engineers, or broke down an ambiguous product requirement into a scalable system design.
Prepare a system design narrative in advance
Staff-level interviews almost always include open-ended system design rounds that go deeper than typical senior screens. Prepare two or three real systems you've built, covering trade-offs you made, constraints you faced, and how the design evolved after you shipped it.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the staff level, the role's actual influence, the team's technical maturity, and your reporting line matter as much as the offer itself. Ask directly about on-call expectations, what systems are yours to own, and how engineering decisions get made before you sign.
Staff Backend Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff backend engineers?
CVS Health, ALTRUIST, and Tillster are hiring the most staff backend engineers right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially high at companies scaling cloud infrastructure and modernizing core platform services.
How many staff backend engineer jobs are remote?
About 72% of staff backend engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong employer flexibility at this seniority level. Roles focused on platform engineering, internal tooling, and API infrastructure tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions tied to on-call production systems may require more in-office presence.
How do you become a staff backend engineer?
Start by consistently operating at a scope beyond your current title: own full systems rather than individual services, drive cross-team technical decisions, and mentor other engineers without being asked. Build a record of shipping resilient, well-documented architecture at scale. When you pursue staff roles, your resume and interview answers need to demonstrate that leadership pattern clearly, not just technical depth.
Can you get hired as a staff backend engineer without prior staff experience?
Yes, but you need to close the framing gap before you apply. Employers promoting from senior to staff want evidence you've already operated at that level, even without the title. Highlight cross-team projects you led, architectural decisions you owned end-to-end, and moments where you shaped technical direction beyond your immediate team. The scope of your work matters more than the title it carried.
What does the staff backend engineer interview process look like?
Most staff backend engineer interview loops include a recruiter screen, a technical phone round focused on backend fundamentals, one or two in-depth system design sessions covering distributed systems and scalability trade-offs, and a cross-functional leadership or behavioral round. Some companies add a take-home design document review. The system design stages carry the most weight and go significantly deeper than senior-level interviews.
Where can I find and apply to staff backend engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff backend engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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