Top Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

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.

Develop and maintain web-based and native front-end applications for animation production users. Collaborate with product, engineering, backend, UX, and production teams on requirements, architecture, performance, testing, deployment, and feature roadmaps. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, prototypes, user studies, and iterative UX improvements. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and translate complex production pipeline requirements into intuitive visual tools.

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.

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.