Software Engineer jobs in California

impact.com

Full-time · Santa Barbara, CA · $80,000 – $90,000

This is an entry-level software engineering role at a commerce partnership platform company where you'll write and test code for their core product alongside senior engineers. It suits someone with a computer science degree or equivalent experience who is ready to apply Java, Spring, and cloud platform skills in a distributed agile team.

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XPeng

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $174,720 – $295,680

This role builds internal AI engineering platforms that help XPENG's engineers develop and deploy software more effectively, with a focus on agentic systems that can understand and act on engineering decisions across connected infrastructure. You'll design distributed systems, create automation for repetitive workflows, and work with internal teams to drive adoption of these developer tools.

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Terran Orbital

Full-time · Irvine, CA · $160,000 – $190,000

A Staff-level embedded Linux engineer at a satellite manufacturer, leading a small team while architecting and developing high-reliability software for spacecraft systems. This role suits experienced C/C++ engineers comfortable with low-level hardware integration, real-time operating systems, and satellite payloads who are ready to mentor others and interact with customers.

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Front

San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $205,000

Front is seeking a fullstack engineer to lead technical delivery on their Core Product Experience team, which handles the critical workflows where users triage conversations and collaborate. This role suits someone with 4+ years of experience who enjoys owning complex projects end-to-end, working across React/TypeScript and backend systems, and shaping product direction alongside design and product teams.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $115,000 – $150,000

This role develops software to test and validate satellite hardware components and integrated systems, supporting Astranis's vehicle integration and test operations. It suits engineers with embedded systems experience who want to work on flight-critical software in a fast-paced space technology environment.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $250,000

A senior engineer role building customer-facing visibility and observability systems at an AI cloud platform. This suits engineers experienced with distributed systems and data pipelines who want to own significant backend features and set technical direction.

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Protegrity

Menlo Park, CA · $209,100 – $234,100 · Remote

This role involves building backend systems that integrate generative AI safely into enterprise products, using Python, Kubernetes, and vector databases. It suits experienced backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of AI systems and data security infrastructure.

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GumGum

Santa Monica, CA · $186,000 – $215,000

GumGum is building an AI-powered software development platform and seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to evaluate and implement spec-driven development frameworks that will become the standard across their engineering organization. This role combines architectural ownership with hands-on development, requiring someone to make critical build-vs-buy decisions and drive org-wide adoption of tools that enable 10x faster feature delivery.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $195,000 – $293,000

GoFundMe seeks a senior payments engineer to design and scale their in-house payout infrastructure, handling billions in transactions while reducing reliance on external fintech vendors. This role suits an experienced technical leader comfortable with complex architectural decisions in ledgering, money movement, and disbursement systems.

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Oura

San Francisco, CA · $127,500 – $178,000 · Remote

This role involves building and maintaining scalable web applications for an e-commerce platform using React, Next.js, and Node.js, collaborating with product and design teams to deliver features that directly impact customer experience. It suits developers with several years of full-stack JavaScript experience who want to work on high-performance systems in a fast-paced health tech environment.

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Mem0

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $150,000 – $250,000

You'll build end-to-end features for Mem0's AI memory platform, working across Next.js and Python to ship scalable product experiences. This role suits a full-stack engineer who thrives owning features from design through deployment and wants to shape an early-stage AI infrastructure company.

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Pylon

Internship · San Francisco, CA

Pylon is seeking a software engineering intern to build AI-powered features for their B2B customer support platform, working alongside senior engineers from top companies and shipping real product quickly. This role suits someone graduating in 2026-2028 who wants hands-on full-stack experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

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Obsidian Securty

Full-time · Palo Alto, CA · $155,000 – $180,000

This role involves building security products that detect and mitigate risks from AI and agentic tools accessing enterprise SaaS platforms through integrations. You'll work on threat modeling, data pipelines, and backend systems that protect customers from emerging AI attack vectors like prompt injection and over-permissioned OAuth scopes.

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Pika Labs

Palo Alto, CA · $250,000 – $350,000

Pika is hiring a senior product engineer to lead the development of user-facing features for their AI video creation platform, building real-time collaboration tools and integrating generative AI workflows. This role suits experienced engineers who care deeply about creative user experiences and can architect systems that scale across web and mobile.

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Thrive Market

Full-time · Playa Vista, CA · $175,000 – $190,000 · Remote

A Senior iOS Engineer role focused on modernizing Thrive Market's mobile app from a legacy codebase into a scalable, modular architecture. This suits experienced Swift developers who want to work on personalization features and technical infrastructure for a consumer e-commerce platform with social impact.

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InstaLily

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $120,000 – $140,000

InstaLILY is building AI infrastructure for enterprise operations, and this role involves developing their core platform while working directly with customers to ship features that power billion-dollar businesses. It suits engineers who want immediate impact, can own problems end-to-end, and thrive in a small, fast-moving team.

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Labelbox

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $250,000 – $280,000

This role builds infrastructure and systems for AI model development, including evaluation platforms, fine-tuning pipelines, and agent-first tools that handle massive scale. It suits experienced full-stack engineers who thrive in startup environments, ship production code quickly, and want to work directly on frontier AI capabilities.

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Suno

Full-time · Los Angeles, CA · $228,000 – $363,000

Suno is seeking experienced Android engineers to build the core mobile app for an AI-powered music creation platform. You'll own significant features across creation, discovery, and playback, collaborating closely with product and design to ship a polished, high-performance app that millions use.

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Eight Sleep

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $235,000

Senior iOS engineer role at a sleep technology company building consumer health products with millions of users worldwide. Suits experienced developers who want to work on high-quality native apps in a fast-paced, high-stakes startup environment where technical excellence is non-negotiable.

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Voyager

Full-time · El Segundo, CA · $180,000 – $250,000

This role leads the development of large-scale software systems for processing and analyzing geospatial data, particularly Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery, supporting U.S. government defense and security missions. It suits experienced software architects who can bridge complex algorithm research with production systems and are comfortable working in highly regulated, security-focused environments.

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