Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

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, implement, and operate critical, highly-scalable backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Collaborate across teams, evaluate trade-offs, test and debug, and ensure availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. Participate in incident response and deliver medium-sized features.

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

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.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

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.

Lead and deliver quarterly goals for a backend team; guide engineers through ambiguous problems; collaborate with product, design, and analytics; identify and resolve project and technical issues; ensure operational availability and on-call readiness; set code and design quality standards; and mentor and develop team members.

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for an insurance platform. Integrate external services and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, participate in architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and support internal tooling and deployment practices.

The Backend Engineer will develop infrastructure for product integration, create documentation for team training, and influence technology decisions.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

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, 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.

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.

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.