Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs, develops, tests, integrates, debugs, and maintains non-embedded software for classified defense programs. Translates customer requirements into software architectures, interfaces, algorithms, and designs; supports system integration and lifecycle processes. The role also handles technical issues, improves development processes and metrics, conducts software research, and ensures compliance with quality, safety, regulatory, and customer standards. Work involves Java, ReactJS, DevOps tools, Agile methodologies, and classified-program environments.

Design, develop, and support AR engine and Lens Studio features for Snapchat and Specs. Build agentic development workflows and tooling, contribute to architecture and technical roadmaps, participate in reviews, and collaborate cross-functionally. Improve code quality, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer productivity while integrating AI-assisted and agentic capabilities into software systems.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys safety-critical flight software for Relativity Space’s Terran R rocket. Responsibilities include architecting real-time systems, integrating guidance and control algorithms, processing vehicle sensor data, controlling equipment, developing telemetry infrastructure, supporting hardware and physics simulations, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

As a Principal Flight Software Engineer, you will lead the architecture and development of flight software for space missions, ensuring safety and reliability while collaborating on technical decisions and standards.

As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will assist in the software development cycle, integrate GNC algorithms, maintain command telemetry databases, and develop reusable driver libraries for flight hardware.

Design and implement Android features from design through launch, optimize mobile UX and performance, perform code reviews, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and use AI tools to streamline development while maintaining security and production-quality code.

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you'll design and implement flight software for deep-space missions, ensuring integration with spacecraft hardware and supporting verification processes for mission success.

The Staff Flight Software Engineer will design and develop flight-critical software for spacecraft, ensuring integration and operational success. Responsibilities include full lifecycle software development, collaboration with various teams, and support for testing and mission simulations.

Build and architect frontend user interfaces for the Service Monetization Platform, focusing on acquisition and secure checkout. Collaborate with design, product, QA, and data teams to solve complex problems, optimize performance, and deliver features through end-to-end delivery, testing, and deployment in an Agile environment.

Build and support rights and availability management systems for Disney media distribution. Design, implement, and integrate APIs and data workflows while ensuring platform performance, scalability, resiliency, and application health. Contribute to architecture and technical strategy, review code, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor junior engineers. Develop responsive React applications and Java/Spring services using AWS, event-driven architectures, and relational databases.

Design, architect, implement, and optimize high-performance iOS camera features (primarily Objective-C). Develop and launch stable mobile features, collaborate with Design, perform code reviews, and leverage AI tools responsibly to accelerate development while ensuring performance, security, and production quality.

Develop and operate high-reliability mission ground software supporting telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, mission control interfaces, simulation, and automated testing. Build scalable services, operator dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and deployment systems across laboratory, test, and mission environments. Collaborate hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF and ground systems, and mission operations teams.

The Software Engineer will manage data collection processes, enhance cloud infrastructure, and collaborate on dataset roadmaps to improve Speechify's audio data ingestion pipeline.

The Software Engineer will develop and optimize data collection, integrate with cloud infrastructure, and collaborate on data pipeline advancements for AI models.

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, develop, and support reusable components, interactions, frameworks and SDKs for Spectacles AR glasses and SnapOS. Contribute to OS components, participate in code and design reviews, and collaborate with design, engineering, and product teams to launch performant, test-covered features.

Design, implement, and optimize full‑stack web and mobile applications. Ship scalable, production‑ready features and UI components, improve performance and reliability, contribute to shared libraries, and use AI tools and metrics to inform 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.

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.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Design, build, and scale backend services and integrations for payment, billing, identity, and partner systems. Own API scoping, design, implementation, deployment, and production operations with minimal oversight. Build fault-tolerant systems, data pipelines, and scalable architectures while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and external partners. Contribute to reliability monitoring, observability, automation, technical standards, and mentoring in a distributed team.

Build and own full-stack MarTech services, scalable APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, and customer-facing web experiences. Integrate advertising, analytics, messaging, and marketing platforms while supporting attribution, identity resolution, experimentation, acquisition, and retention. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, data, design, and engineering teams to launch measurable growth initiatives. Mentor engineers and establish technical best practices across high-scale marketing infrastructure.

Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution and platform integrations. Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals, deploy cloud-native services on AWS EKS and Kubernetes, and ensure reliability, observability, and scalability. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions while mentoring junior engineers. The role requires expertise in backend or data engineering, distributed systems, streaming technologies, cloud deployment, data modeling, and high-throughput databases.