Top Remote Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead the Discovery Platform team, overseeing the development of scalable, high-performance systems for retrieval and ranking to enhance the user experience in Whatnot's live social marketplace.

Lead a compliance and risk engineering pillar to design, deliver, and operate regulatory automation, AI/ML, and risk-control platforms. Own roadmap, reliability, incident and defect management, stakeholder communication with Legal/Cyber/Compliance, and hiring and growth of software and quality engineering teams across global jurisdictions.

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.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve reliability, performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call and incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews and documentation.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

Lead the technical roadmap for partner integrations across APIs, SDKs, and web experiences. Design and build scalable products, standardize external partner integrations, and deliver payment and data-sharing capabilities. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, Infrastructure, Sales, Partner, and Customer Success teams while remaining hands-on. Drive architecture, code quality, delivery, stakeholder alignment, and technical strategy for high-impact fintech products.

Build reusable backend platforms and developer-facing tooling for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Enable service teams to independently incorporate performance testing into development and CI workflows through self-service capabilities, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and guidance. Partner with engineering teams, influence adoption, generalize solutions, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

Design and implement backend services, modernize legacy systems into microservices, ensure strong testing and production observability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams. The role requires independent project ownership, strong system design, AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude or Cursor, effective communication with nontechnical stakeholders, and adaptability in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.