Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

Design, implement, and operate scalable ads delivery backend services. Own serving-time systems, collaborate with Product/ML/Infra, ensure availability and efficiency, use observability and automation, and apply AI-assisted workflows to ship production-quality code and optimize platform architecture.

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

Design, implement, and operate critical, highly scalable backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Collaborate across teams, build and test distributed systems, ensure availability and operational excellence, use AI tools to accelerate development, and participate in incident response and debugging.

Design, implement, and evolve complex backend features and architecture. Improve reliability, performance, and security at scale. Mentor engineers, participate in incident response, set backend standards, and integrate agentic AI into production workflows.

Own and evolve the Subscriptions and Payments backend: design APIs, integrate providers, improve reliability and scalability, lead architecture and code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in on-call rotations.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and work-item hierarchies, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor contributors, and participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.

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.

Maintain and improve GameChanger's backend API server and SDK. Implement API/SDK changes, improve developer ergonomics, optimize performance and scalability, design critical systems, document and mentor teammates, and participate in on-call rotation.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

As a Staff Engineer for Revenue, you'll shape technical vision and architecture for billing and pricing systems, ensuring correctness while enhancing cross-team collaboration.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

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.

Develop, test, and improve the OT Security Platform as part of the Microsegmentation Product Team, ensuring high-quality software and architecture.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Design, build, and improve scalable backend systems that collect hard-to-access OSINT; build pipelines and ETL for messy data; collaborate with product and mission teams; mentor engineers and ensure reliable data delivery for DoD workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.

Lead delivery for the Batch Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable compute platforms for scheduled and on-demand batch workloads. Collaborate with product/design/analytics, define technical plans, ensure availability (monitoring/on-call), set code and design standards, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and quality.