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

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Leads enterprise software architecture and development across multiple product lines, establishes design standards, reviews solutions, troubleshoots complex issues, and provides technical guidance across teams. Supports modernization of on-premise systems and migration to Azure cloud. Partners with engineering and executive leaders on technology strategy, security adaptability, automation, and solution design using agile methods.

Owns the full lifecycle of operational software products, from concept through production. Builds and tests reliable, user-focused features; scales prototypes; triages issues and identifies root causes; and partners with product teams, mission engineers, architects, and end users to deliver effective solutions. The role requires strong React, TypeScript, and Python skills, performance optimization experience, and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, developer tools, migrations, and lifecycle automation. Solve database scaling, performance, reliability, and availability problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend services. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and queries, lead technical projects, modernize platforms, participate in incident response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, and developer tools for provisioning, migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Solve scaling, performance, reliability, and data correctness challenges across databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and platform adoption, lead technical projects through rollout, participate in on-call response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Build and operate production-grade Python backend services, APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and agentic workflows for an AI observability platform. Own ambiguous projects from prototyping through architecture, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation. Collaborate with product, machine learning, and infrastructure teams, while contributing React front ends when needed. The role requires strong backend depth, distributed-systems expertise, cloud experience, and end-to-end product ownership.

Design and build scalable frontend and backend features for route planning, routing, navigation, and route execution products. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve planner efficiency, leverage AI appropriately, and promote technical excellence. Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team growth, engage with customers, and help scale products across industries and customer verticals.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Develop and maintain scalable control-plane software for DigitalOcean’s network products. Responsibilities include building APIs and microservices, implementing and optimizing services, troubleshooting customer issues, supporting existing products, improving development processes, and contributing to architecture and engineering best practices. The role involves end-to-end SDLC ownership, CI/CD deployment, distributed systems, containerized workloads, and collaboration across networking teams.