Top Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Own and architect the frontend platform for a unified, safety-critical operator interface. Lead application shell, design system, shared data layer, frontend consolidation, performance optimization, real-time telemetry rendering, cross-team technical direction, and mentorship. Build data-intensive applications using advanced state management and streaming technologies.

Own the architecture, scalability, reliability, and delivery of complex software systems. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, design AI-friendly APIs and agentic workflows, improve performance and cost efficiency, partner with product managers, mentor engineers, influence hiring, and drive engineering quality and technical direction with substantial autonomy.

Build and scale full-stack product features, backend services, APIs, integrations, and user-facing applications. Own projects from technical design through rollout, monitoring, and maintenance. Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience while mentoring engineers and contributing to architecture and engineering standards. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to solve ambiguous technical problems, and use AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery.

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 architecture and technical direction of Metropolis Recognition Platform, including edge-to-cloud pipelines, identity resolution, real-time decisioning, privacy and consent models, observability, and progressive delivery. Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, computer vision, data, security, platform teams, and partners. Establish RFCs, SLOs, testing standards, operational practices, and architectural best practices while mentoring engineers and managing high-scale distributed systems.

Build and own a browser-based React and three.js rendering layer for 3D mission data, including spacecraft, orbits, sensor volumes, telemetry, and common operating picture controls. Develop polished front-end interactions, optimize real-time rendering performance, manage 3D scenes, shaders, lighting, cameras, and level of detail, and rapidly prototype visual concepts. Collaborate with data and platform engineers while contributing to data visualization and standard front-end development.

Design, implement, test, and maintain real-time satellite payload models and integrate them into system-level simulators. Perform full software lifecycle activities, develop verification plans and test environments, create automation tools, collaborate with cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, flight software), and deliver high-impact solutions in an agile CI/CD environment.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead the Discovery Platform team, overseeing the development of scalable, high-performance systems for retrieval and ranking to enhance the user experience in Whatnot's live social marketplace.

Lead a product-facing engineering team focused on acquisition and conversion. Set priorities and metrics, partner with cross-functional teams, drive experimentation and funnel optimization, hire and coach engineers, ensure secure, reliable, and scalable systems, and balance speed with long-term technical health and team sustainability.