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Backend Development Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 58+ backend development jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include MongoDB, CHAOS Industries, and ZoomInfo.

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summer Fridays 2
flexible hours 3
unlimited PTO 20
best places to work 17
generous parental leave 12

Updated September 3, 2026

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Software Engineer, Cash App Taxes

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Block · Remote · New York, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$180k – $270kPro · early access

Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity

1mo

Hospitable · Remote · Oregon, USA

73 · GreatGenerous PTO$124k – $154k

Senior Product Engineer, Scalability

2mo

Railway · Remote · Worldwide

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

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Staff Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering

4mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$204k – $255k

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

14d

SmarterDx · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $230k

LDAP Software Engineer

1mo

JumpCloud · Remote · India

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer/ Tech lead - SaaS Platform & Product, OSS Product

2mo

DataHub · Remote · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Software engineer (Furnishing Platform)

3mo

Affirm · Remote · Spain

61 · GoodBest Place to Work€86k – €122k

Edge Functions Engineer

3mo

Supabase · Remote · Worldwide

61 · GoodFlexible Hours

Software Engineer, Identity

4mo

Twilio · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$117k – $172k

Senior Software Engineer, Scheduling

3mo

Toast · Remote · Canada

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$125k – $175k

Sr. AI Engineer

22d

Samsara · Remote · California, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$127k – $214k

AI First Software Engineer

Ecare · Hybrid · Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

82 · Great4 Day Work Week€6,250/mo

Software Engineer III

NEW

ZoomInfo · Hybrid · Bethesda, MD, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$112k – $176kPro · early access

Senior Software Engineer I-Agentic AI

DigitalOcean · Hybrid · Hyderabad, India

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Associate Backend Engineer

Eulerity · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays

Mid-Level Software Development Analyst

Experian · Hybrid · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior AI Software Engineer

4mo

Forter · Hybrid · Tel Aviv or London

73 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Senior AI Software Engineer

4mo

Forter · Hybrid · Tel Aviv or London

73 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Staff Software Engineer

Procore · Onsite · Bangalore, India

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Backend Development on this page include MongoDB, CHAOS Industries, and ZoomInfo. Backend Development roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Backend Development is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Backend Development roles span the full seniority range — we list 58 open roles requiring Backend Development across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Backend Development hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Backend Development roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Backend Development candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Backend Development on current listings.

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Browse 58+ backend development jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include MongoDB, CHAOS Industries, and ZoomInfo.

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