Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Develop and modernize Credit Risk technology applications using Java or Python, SQL, and Databricks. Design, build, test, debug, and maintain secure, scalable production software; create architecture artifacts; analyze large datasets; troubleshoot complex systems; and improve coding practices and system architecture. Use authorized AI-assisted development tools responsibly, validate generated outputs, and contribute to engineering standards and automation.

Develop and operate backend systems supporting post-transaction processing for Affirm Card. Break down projects, write tested and extensible code, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, participate in on-call support, and contribute to code reviews and team development.

Design and own secure, scalable wallet infrastructure for custody, key management, transaction signing, authorization, recovery, and multichain systems. Architect support for MPC, HSMs, secure enclaves, TEEs, smart contract wallets, account abstraction, and emerging cryptographic approaches. Define security boundaries, policy engines, secrets management, authentication, and programmable authorization while making foundational build-versus-buy decisions and guiding systems from first principles through production.

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.

Build and scale Go backend services for agent quoting, configuration, and application submission. Design APIs and distributed systems, write unit and integration tests, resolve partner-specific issues, contribute to architecture, support production debugging, improve CI/CD automation, and use AI coding tools in daily engineering workflows. Collaborate with adjacent teams and mentor teammates through pairing and documentation.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

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

Leads development of enterprise Java services and data platforms supporting data catalogs, lineage, entitlements, and data quality. Designs secure, resilient production software, reviews code, automates testing and remediation, and promotes CI/CD and approved AI-assisted engineering practices. Provides technical leadership in Agile teams through architecture ownership, mentoring, standards development, and vendor evaluations. Works with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging, search, caching, and modern data platforms.

Lead an agile software engineering team developing secure, scalable, high-quality technology products. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing Java and Spring code, guiding technical teams, shaping product and application design, supporting production systems, influencing engineering practices, and serving as a subject matter expert. The role requires experience with system design, testing, production support, XZBoost, model hosting, and low-latency, high-throughput systems, with preferred exposure to Big Data and agentic AI.

Lead a team of software engineers supporting critical retail-banking applications. Design and develop software solutions, provide technical guidance, review code and documentation, troubleshoot complex incidents, and apply SRE practices. Maintain on-call rotation for after-hours critical incidents. Use OpenShift, Hogan, Dynatrace, and Linux; collaborate on releases and modernize application delivery.

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.

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.

Build and independently deliver full-stack healthcare software features using Java or Groovy, React and TypeScript, MongoDB, and Kafka. Responsibilities include design, implementation, testing, deployment, production debugging, code reviews, design documentation, dependency coordination, process improvements, and mentoring. The role requires reliable delivery with minimal oversight and collaboration across engineering, product, and QA teams in a remote-first environment.

Develop and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer app and website. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to break down projects, make technical decisions, write tested and extensible code, launch scalable APIs, monitor service health, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviewing.

Leads development of secure, scalable Java full-stack software for a digital identity team. Designs, codes, tests, troubleshoots, and reviews production applications; improves resiliency and automation; promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices; and evaluates vendor and architectural solutions. Requires cloud-native experience with AWS and Kubernetes, REST API development, agile delivery, security, and CI/CD. Familiarity with IAM technologies and ForgeRock or Ping Identity is preferred.

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.

Develop and improve MongoDB’s distributed database networking and observability components. Responsibilities include writing production-level C++ code, enhancing performance, availability, scalability, and resource efficiency, integrating observability frameworks, leading medium-sized projects, collaborating across the product lifecycle, and participating in code reviews and technical design. The role requires strong software architecture fundamentals and an interest in networking, observability, and computer systems internals.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, production-grade data-intensive applications and platforms. Build reusable frameworks, leverage enterprise AI-assisted development tools responsibly, collaborate across teams, and ensure scalability, observability, and operational stability for a global KYC and risk data platform.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.