Backend Engineer
Quick facts
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Mateo, California
- Background
- Master's degree
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Skills
- Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Industry
- Information Technology — 615 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Hiring: Senior Backend Engineer
Role Details
- Location: San Mateo, California
- Work Model: Hybrid, minimum 4 days onsite per week
- Employment: Full-time
- Visa: TN and H-1B transfers considered case-by-case; eligible OPT candidates may also be considered.
- Candidates must be local to the Bay Area or willing to relocate.
We are hiring Senior Backend Engineers for a well-funded, Series A AI startup building next-generation AI-native business intelligence solutions for enterprise customers.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex backend engineering problems, building scalable data infrastructure, and taking ownership of critical product systems in a high-performance engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale large-scale data pipelines supporting latency-critical analytical workloads.
- Develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient backend systems and services.
- Architect and optimize distributed systems, data processing workflows, and backend infrastructure.
- Work across the product and codebase, contributing to backend, platform, and infrastructure engineering.
- Collaborate closely with ML engineers to build AI-powered analytics and data intelligence capabilities.
- Drive system design, technical architecture, performance optimization, and production reliability.
- Take end-to-end ownership of engineering projects, from design and implementation to deployment and optimization.
- Collaborate directly with co-founders, product teams, and customers to influence technical and product direction.
Must-Have Skills & Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience in Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building or scaling large-scale data pipelines and data-intensive backend systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience developing and maintaining production-grade backend services.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and low-level coding capabilities.
- Experience working in strong product engineering environments with high standards for code quality, architecture, and engineering ownership.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or Statistics.
Preferred Background
Experience at engineering-driven product companies such as Google, Meta, Uber, Rubrik, Glean, Ramp, Brex, DoorDash, or similar technology organizations.
Rust experience and prior startup exposure are additional advantages.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Digivance Solutions in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Software Developers · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $137,093 | ~15% |
| Level II | $165,131 | ~31% |
| Level III | $193,149 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $221,187 | ~61% |
The listing has no salary, so we can't place it on a wage level. Ask the employer which wage level they'd file at: Level III–IV registrations get 3–4 entries in the H-1B lottery.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.