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

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, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

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.

Operate at Staff-level to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues, contribute production-quality code to GitLab, drive AI adoption (Duo Agent Platform), and translate field learnings into durable product improvements, guidance, and thought leadership while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

Manage and grow the Video Enablement engineering team, own core video pipeline (ingest, transcode, storage, playback), enable third-party device integrations, collaborate on video roadmap, ensure scalable resilient AWS infrastructure, mentor engineers, contribute technically when needed, and support production incidents and cross-team enablement.

Build and operate billing and payments services using Node.js/Go and Vue.js. Develop integrations with payment and accounting systems, ensure runtime reliability on AWS (SQS, Lambda), drive CI/CD and automated testing, write design docs and runbooks, mentor engineers, and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.

Lead the technical lifecycle of mission-focused software products: design and prototype full-stack features, validate UX and performance, bridge prototypes to production, diagnose and fix production issues, engage end users, and align engineering choices with mission constraints while collaborating across product, platform, and mission teams in a hybrid environment.

Develop fullstack web applications, enhance platform performance, collaborate on high-impact opportunities, and ensure stable, scalable solutions. Engage in rapid iterations and be a committed team player.