Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems for Catering & Events. Own architecture, drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Design, ensure scalability, reliability, observability, and champion AI adoption to improve developer productivity and product capabilities.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.

Lead design and build of scalable AWS cloud-based backend services and APIs powering web and mobile customer experiences. Own end-to-end feature delivery, improve grading and authentication workflows for scale and reliability, leverage AI tools to accelerate development, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Design, build, and operate the core data warehouse, ingestion, orchestration, and cataloging platform. Develop batch and streaming pipelines, ensure data quality, governance, observability, and provide ML data platform capabilities. Lead architecture, improve platform reliability and performance, and collaborate with product, engineering, data science, security, and compliance teams.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

Lead the design and evolution of predictive maintenance platform, build and scale ML-powered features, and mentor other engineers.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

Lead design and development of high-performance endpoint agents in Go across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Build concurrent, performance-sensitive telemetry systems, integrate with backend REST APIs, use AI tools responsibly, mentor engineers, and collaborate on testing and DevOps to support threat-hunting at scale.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

Lead architecture and technical vision for integrations that ingest external data (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot) into Jasper's IQ layer. Design scalable, secure data ingestion, define context primitives, drive cross-team alignment, and deliver staff-level initiatives that improve reliability and AI-driven product quality.

Own and modernize the governance domain (auth, roles/permissions, orgs, billing) as a Staff-level backend IC: set architecture, refactor for scale and AI-native workflows, write critical-path code (70-80%), mentor engineers, and partner with product to deliver enterprise-grade governance and compliance features.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

Lead architecture and technical vision for Rula's RCM Payments team. Design scalable, distributed payment and claims systems, partner with product and clinical stakeholders, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and apply modern engineering practices including microservices, event-driven systems, and full-stack TypeScript/React/Node.js development.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.