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 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.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Build backend-focused Java/Kotlin APIs and data-driven product features, while contributing to React dashboards and workflows. Design scalable systems, participate in architecture and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues using observability tools, and collaborate with data, reporting, design, and product teams to launch emerging products.

Own the design and implementation of native iOS and Android SDKs supporting mobile device intelligence and fraud detection. Investigate complex systems-level engineering problems, evaluate platform behavior and technical tradeoffs, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Fraud Intelligence, and Sales, and establish SentiLink’s mobile engineering capabilities.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.