Top Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design Engineer will rapidly prototype and iterate mobile products (primarily iOS), build tooling and internal systems, collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to drive product strategy, test with researchers, and ship polished experiences to hundreds of millions of users. Role involves presenting work to leadership and occasionally prototyping on web, AR, and AI platforms.

Lead design and build of an AI-powered, spec-driven development platform: evaluate frameworks, architect end-to-end tooling, integrate with CI/CD and Kubernetes, partner with DevOps, MLE, and Security, instrument adoption and velocity metrics, and drive org-wide rollout and training to enable non-engineers to author specs.

Lead design and delivery of scalable budgeting and pacing infrastructure. Build and maintain high-performance Java production systems, collaborate with engineering and product teams, apply data-driven decision making, and ensure reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of distributed systems.

Design, build, and scale cloud-based backend platform components and connectors for ERPs, banks, payments, tax and subledger systems. Lead architecture, deliver highly available multi-tenant SaaS services (API gateway, event bus, identity, scheduler, search, workflow orchestration), ensure performance, security, extensibility and testability, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and support deployments and occasional off-hours support.

Design and build core services for Metropolis Web Services, focusing on distributed systems. Collaborate with multiple technical teams and mentor engineers. Architect scalable systems and establish operational standards for high reliability and performance.

Lead and grow a software engineering team owning delivery, quality, and operational health. Provide technical oversight for architecture and code quality, drive planning and execution cadence, adopt AI-assisted development tooling, recruit and onboard engineers, remove blockers and manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with product and design to deliver high-impact work.

Build and operate Block’s data platform, including warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable Python services, developer tools, and Terraform infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish engineering standards, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, reliability, observability, usability, and data governance.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Build and operate a scalable data platform supporting warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop Python services, Terraform infrastructure, and developer tools for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish security and reliability patterns, set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.