Top Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Build full-stack applications supporting rocket design and manufacturing operations. Develop responsive front ends, scalable back ends, data pipelines, telemetry analysis tools, production planning systems, and real-time dashboards. Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iterative improvement. Collaborate with design, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and factory-floor teams while following agile, continuous integration, and continuous deployment practices.

Build full-stack applications supporting rocket design and manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include developing responsive front ends, scalable back ends, data pipelines, telemetry analysis tools, production planning and supply chain applications, and real-time manufacturing dashboards. The role covers the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, continuous integration, and iterative improvement with engineers and factory operators.

Develops and verifies vehicle management flight software for aerospace and autonomy platforms. Responsibilities include translating requirements into software designs, integrating functions, building simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments, creating automated test frameworks, executing manual and automated V&V activities, supporting CI/CD, investigating defects, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating verification across multifunctional teams. The role is fully onsite and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and up to 10% travel.

Build and own foundational Android platform infrastructure, including architecture, shared libraries, tooling, observability, performance systems, and developer experience. Lead cross-organizational technical initiatives, establish Android engineering standards, evaluate AI-assisted development tools, and build AI-powered platform capabilities. Collaborate across mobile, web, backend, product, and design teams while mentoring engineers and driving large-scale organizational impact.

Staff Android Software Engineer responsible for owning Cash App’s foundational Android platform, including architecture, shared libraries, infrastructure, developer tooling, observability, performance, and experimentation systems. The role drives AI-native engineering practices, leads cross-organizational technical initiatives, establishes standards, mentors engineers, and partners across mobile, web, backend, product, and design teams. Requires deep Android expertise and organizational-level impact.

Build and deploy full-stack healthcare financial products used by millions of patients. Develop AI- and ML-powered features, integrate LLMs, enhance an AI billing assistant, and create patient payment solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver production-ready software. Contribute to technical planning, coordinate complex development efforts, mentor peers, and maintain high standards for testing, code quality, efficiency, and technical debt management.

Designs, develops, tests, integrates, debugs, and maintains non-embedded software for classified defense programs. Translates customer requirements into software architectures, interfaces, algorithms, and designs; supports system integration and lifecycle processes. The role also handles technical issues, improves development processes and metrics, conducts software research, and ensures compliance with quality, safety, regulatory, and customer standards. Work involves Java, ReactJS, DevOps tools, Agile methodologies, and classified-program environments.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve reliability, performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call and incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews and documentation.

Design, build, test, and operate mission operations software for the Mars 2028 spacecraft, including command generation, validation, sequencing, telemetry processing, data dissemination, interfaces, visualization, and data pipelines. Develop automated testing and validation frameworks, support simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing, document external APIs and data formats, and collaborate with mission operations, flight software, instrument teams, and external partners. Shift work and on-call availability are required during critical mission phases.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Develop and maintain distributed spacecraft ground control software in Elixir, including satellite command and control, mission planning, mission data processing, and data analysis systems. Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews while collaborating across engineering disciplines. The role involves solving greenfield problems involving resilient, fault-tolerant, concurrent, and real-time distributed systems.

Build and improve full-stack software for engineers operating mission-critical hardware. Responsibilities include developing React and TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces, contributing to backend services and APIs, creating reliable data flows, debugging across systems, writing tested code, and collaborating on greenfield products. The intern will work closely with software engineers and operators while gaining experience across frontend, backend, databases, and hardware-connected systems.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Lead the architecture and evolution of native iOS foundations supporting seller-facing applications. Identify systemic problems, define platform strategy and standards, build prototypes and reference implementations, lead multi-quarter migrations, and establish practices for quality, testing, observability, release safety, and maintainability. Develop senior engineers and create scalable ownership models across teams.

Design, implement, and maintain APIs, backend services, and front-end interfaces for mission planning and satellite/ground systems. Lead feature development across the full lifecycle in an Agile DevSecOps environment, emphasizing automation, testing, security, performance, and code quality. Support integration, CI/CD pipelines, and geospatial visualization for defense communications systems.

Develop and maintain telemetry and command database schemas, data models, APIs, services, pipelines, and database-backed applications for spacecraft and flight-test systems. Translate engineering requirements into reliable data solutions, implement automated validation and testing, optimize database performance, troubleshoot data pipelines, support CI/CD and migrations, and collaborate with systems, flight software, test, database, and mission operations teams.

Design, develop, and support AR engine and Lens Studio features for Snapchat and Specs. Build agentic development workflows and tooling, contribute to architecture and technical roadmaps, participate in reviews, and collaborate cross-functionally. Improve code quality, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer productivity while integrating AI-assisted and agentic capabilities into software systems.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Develop and maintain software requirements, architecture, algorithms, interfaces, APIs, backend services, and user interfaces for SATCOM mission-planning systems. Work throughout the Agile and DevSecOps lifecycle, including design, coding, integration, testing, deployment, code reviews, automation, security, and performance improvements. Support CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes optimization, databases, geospatial visualization, and software for space systems and ground segments.

Lead design, architecture, and implementation of APIs, front-end interfaces, and backend services for satellite and ground systems. Guide Agile/DevSecOps development, CI/CD, automated testing, and security practices; lead code reviews, mentor team members, and own features through full lifecycle to deployment.

Design, implement, operate, and improve highly available backend services and distributed systems at significant scale. Collaborate across teams to deliver product solutions, test and debug code, and promote availability, scalability, operational excellence, security, and cost management. Investigate incidents, provide technical leadership, and use AI-assisted engineering workflows while maintaining production-quality standards.

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys safety-critical flight software for Relativity Space’s Terran R rocket. Responsibilities include architecting real-time systems, integrating guidance and control algorithms, processing vehicle sensor data, controlling equipment, developing telemetry infrastructure, supporting hardware and physics simulations, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead design, development, integration, and validation of complex ground-system software. Define software architecture, derive and trace software requirements, participate in system reviews, collaborate with hardware/network/test teams, and support customer-facing technical deliverables.