Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

As a Software Engineer at Citadel, you will build systems for investments, collaborate with researchers, and tackle complex problems.

11-week software engineering internship building high-performance, large-data research platforms and trading tools. Work in small teams on system architectures, distributed systems, NLP and ML, and web frameworks while collaborating with senior engineers.

Develop high-performance research platforms and tools that bring trading strategies to life. Work in small teams to design, build, and deploy resilient systems using distributed computing, NLP, and machine learning to solve large-data problems in finance.

Lead architecture, modernization, and development of Group Insurance applications. Modernize mainframe monoliths into Java microservices and micro-frontends on cloud, mentor distributed Agile teams, collaborate with enterprise architecture, product owners and infrastructure, and enable test automation and integrations. Approximately 10% domestic travel.

Build and optimize backend data pipelines and calculations for 7M+ securities using Python/Django. Implement Airflow pipelines, pandas/Celery-based async calculations, database query tuning, caching, scalable data models, incident investigation, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration to ensure timely, accurate financial data.

Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

Build and own end-to-end patient onboarding features that improve acquisition, registration, eligibility verification, and conversion. Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineers to run experiments, ship scalable frontend/backend systems, optimize performance and resilience, and iterate based on data to improve patient outcomes.

Lead frontend-leaning full-stack implementation work for carrier and enterprise integrations: architect reusable UI and API layers, author RFCs, guide technical delivery, enforce testing and security best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to scope and ship production integrations.

Build and own Eve's marketing site and GTM engineering stack: integrate and optimize external tools, design AI agents for sales and marketing, implement webhooks and middleware to sync product/CRM data, and create programmatic campaigns and internal tools in partnership with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Product to drive growth and automation.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Lead the design and implementation of backend services for data cataloging and ML training systems, focusing on performance and scalability.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Trust & Safety, you'll analyze threats, design systems for abuse detection, and collaborate with teams to implement scalable defenses.

The role involves leading application performance improvements across multiple platforms, focusing on measurable metrics and driving engineering standards and workflow optimization, using both hands-on coding and strategic influence.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable full‑stack systems. Contribute to API and architecture design, write testable code, debug complex issues, improve performance, automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable systems and APIs across a primarily TypeScript stack. Deliver features independently, improve performance and observability, contribute to architecture and CI/CD, debug complex issues, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and maintain scalable integration and end-to-end test automation frameworks, optimize CI pipelines and test execution, improve test stability and reporting, support engineering teams with triage and best practices, write technical specs/ADRs, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the company test strategy.

Develop and implement full stack features for a healthcare platform, focusing on both frontend (React) and backend (Node.js) development. Responsible for performance optimization, API creation, testing, and collaboration with data engineering teams.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.

The Software Engineer, Production Support will debug product issues, provide fixes, improve system reliability, and support the support team while addressing customer feedback and enhancing debugging workflows.

As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll build scalable systems for a next-generation search platform, ensuring data integrity and user experience while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed storage systems ensuring data durability, availability, and performance. Build and maintain replication, erasure coding, and lifecycle systems; write high-quality Go/Rust/C++ code; participate in on-call rotations; troubleshoot production incidents; collaborate with networking, hardware, and capacity teams; lead scoped projects and drive infrastructure evolution.

As a Billing & Analytics Software Engineer, you'll design and maintain the billing pipeline, integrate billing systems, and develop customer-facing analytics dashboards to support revenue recognition and operational observability.

Build and scale consumer-facing mobile and web applications and backend services. Own features end-to-end across frontend and backend, optimize databases and queries, integrate third-party APIs, implement algorithms for risk and transaction evaluation, improve reliability and CI/CD, and contribute to testing, monitoring, and internal tools to support customer operations.

Build and maintain frontend and backend platform components for AI infrastructure using Python and TypeScript. Support and develop the open-source SDK, create APIs and UIs, collaborate with engineering and AI teams, write tests, and follow CI best practices. Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and continuous learning to improve platform scalability and developer experience.