Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The Backend Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, contribute to system reliability and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally while taking ownership of projects.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.

As an Engineer II for Backend APIs, you'll design, develop, and test APIs for the Reporting & Insights team, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Your role involves ensuring high code quality, ownership of services in production, and leveraging AI tools in development.

Design, implement, and operate critical, highly scalable backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Collaborate across teams, ensure availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. Build, test, debug, and participate in incident resolution while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and maintain secure, production-ready code.

Seeking a backend developer and DevOps hybrid to build tech infrastructure for the Dreamwave events platform, focusing on Node.js and GCP services.

The Marketing Backend Developer will build and maintain backend services and APIs for marketing operations, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrations, with a focus on performance and scalability.

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and monitoring backend applications. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design/version APIs, build event-driven/asynchronous systems, improve performance and reliability, and drive CI/CD and observability best practices. Ship high-quality, well-tested features and support platform scalability and maintainability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and Postgres. Architect systems for high performance, implement third-party integrations, develop internal fulfillment and ML tools, set backend engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, data, and frontend teams while ensuring security, documentation, and testing.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to design, build, and scale backend services, web applications, and data pipelines. Solve complex cross‑persona problems, implement performant ELT/data integrations, and perform data analysis to investigate and resolve issues, driving engineering best practices and customer‑centric solutions.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, implement, and operate critical scalable services, collaborate across teams, and uphold best practices for software quality and system operations.

As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for an internal platform that provides operational visibility into high-volume fund movements. Drive AI-first tooling, build fault-tolerant search and remediation systems, align cross-functionally, and elevate engineering quality through mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.

The role involves designing and expanding backend systems, mentoring engineers, and executing technical strategies to modernize architecture and improve system performance.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and build scalable platforms for processing sensor data, define engineering standards, and collaborate on backend system development.

You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.

Build and improve frontend experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/org support. Contribute to migrating main views to React Native, design high-performance React/TypeScript UIs, collaborate with backend engineers and product teams, and write well-tested, reliable code to maintain low-latency user surfaces at scale.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for an AI-driven logistics platform while ensuring system reliability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include designing architecture, implementing data pipelines, collaborating with teams, and mentoring new members. The role requires proficiency in backend languages and cloud infrastructure.

Design and develop backend systems, optimize performance, manage APIs, and lead integration efforts in healthcare software.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for commerce workflows using Python/Django. Improve reliability, performance, and observability, operate AWS deployments, work with PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS), modernize legacy systems, and support CI/CD, testing, and production troubleshooting.