Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design, build, and maintain backend services powering Clerkie's platform. Improve reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and support feature development. Participate in technical design, cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and own projects end-to-end in a fast-moving startup environment.

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

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

Design, implement, and operate highly-available, large-scale backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Lead architecture and delivery of distributed systems, collaborate across teams, ensure operational excellence, use AI tools responsibly, and participate in incident response and on-call ownership.

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

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, 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.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.

The Senior Backend Engineer II will design, build, and maintain backend services for financial workflows, collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance system reliability and performance.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

Design and deliver LLM-powered, agentic AI systems to automate customer support and compliance. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Go, integrate third-party models/APIs, implement grounding and guardrails, and measure performance. Lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and participate in on-call and incident response to improve resolution times and reduce operational costs.

Design and implement high-performance backend systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle (debugging, testing, optimization), integrate third-party devices and data, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and lead architectural and technical strategy across teams.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Build and optimize high-performance backend systems for an xOT security platform using Rust. Participate across development lifecycle, design scalable microservices, integrate third-party devices and data providers, incorporate AI tools, and improve observability and reliability through testing, debugging, and peer review.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based backend services and APIs for the Collectors Vault. Own architecture and delivery, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development and engineering velocity.

Build and operate the Power Packs customer experience and backend services. Design data foundations, APIs, and integrations across platform services. Troubleshoot distributed systems, contribute full-stack plumbing as needed, improve observability and documentation, and collaborate with Product and partner teams to deliver scalable, multi-tenant marketplace capabilities.

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 build a centralized reliability platform and developer-facing APIs. Implement AI agents for incident triage, log/trace summarization, and recommended actions. Own projects end-to-end and collaborate with product, infra, data, and SRE teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop scalable applications, enhance DevOps practices, and drive continuous improvement within infrastructure and systems.

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