Top Entry Level Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports scalable enterprise software across web, native, and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include system architecture, cloud applications, APIs, integrations, data systems, security, performance optimization, technical documentation, Agile delivery, and production support. The role collaborates with distributed engineering and cross-functional teams, translates requirements into technical solutions, evaluates architectural tradeoffs, mentors engineers, and supports technologies including Salesforce, Azure DevOps, generative AI, and mobile frameworks.

Develop and maintain Tailscale’s open-source client and backend networking software. Design, test, document, and optimize networking components, distributed systems, and overlay routing features. Own services through observability, incident response, and customer escalations while collaborating with product managers and designers. Apply security-first practices and improve system efficiency, scalability, and stability in a fully remote, asynchronous startup environment.

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.

Build and maintain developer tools, SDKs, CLI, MCP interfaces, integrations, and supporting backend services. Collaborate on API contracts, compatibility, testing, releases, documentation, and shared tooling. Support developers through GitHub issues and pull requests while designing reliable systems with authentication, retries, idempotency, rate limits, monitoring, and error recovery.

Build full-stack tools, backend services, APIs, dashboards, and data workflows for assessing and improving AI training data and evaluations. Partner with quality and research teams to inspect agent trajectories, validate graders, measure quality, investigate workflow issues, and turn internal prototypes into reliable production platform capabilities.

Build and operate Origin’s AI observability platform across data-collection agents, backend services, infrastructure, inference pipelines, APIs, and React interfaces. Design distributed systems using AWS, EKS, ClickHouse, and Kafka for high-throughput, multi-tenant production workloads. Develop internal coding agents and define AI-native engineering practices while making decisions around storage, APIs, performance, and reliability.

Entry-level software engineering role in NOV’s one-year Pathway Rotational Program. Responsibilities include designing and debugging software for drilling equipment and applications, maintaining documentation, supporting implementation and training, troubleshooting software and hardware, gathering requirements, working with customers, and participating in design reviews. Candidates should be graduating in May 2027 or have graduated within the past two years in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline.

Designs and develops enterprise software applications and microservices, including architecture, technical proofs of concept, Git-based build and deployment integrations, data modeling, requirements, design documentation, scripting, and unit and integration testing.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Develop and improve SingleStore database engine software, including query execution, optimization, storage, indexing, transactions, and distributed-system components. Write production code, tests, documentation, and technical designs while investigating performance, scalability, and correctness issues. Collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams through regular release cycles.

Develop and operate production-quality cloud software for managing customer workspaces and databases. Responsibilities include building backend services, APIs, automation, provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups, recovery, observability, and reliability improvements. The role involves writing code, tests, documentation, and technical designs; investigating performance and scalability issues; and collaborating with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams.

Build and maintain versioned data ingestion and conflation pipelines that transform complex retail and spatial data into accurate, reliable insights. Responsibilities include entity resolution, golden-record creation, rules-based normalization, RegEx logic, LLM integration, schema evolution, and cost-effective scaling. The role emphasizes engineering rigor, high-fidelity outputs, and production-ready data for consumer dashboards.

Designs and operates production data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, containerized AWS services, and graph-based systems. Responsibilities include relational, document, and graph database architecture; data quality and lineage; CI/CD automation; and integration of blockchain, financial, and investigative data. Partners with R&D, data scientists, and investigations teams to deliver production software for federal and commercial clients.

Design, develop, and implement cloud applications and automated tests on Microsoft Azure using C#/.NET and full-stack technologies. Evaluate architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and maintenance risks; make technical trade-offs; design comprehensive test coverage; troubleshoot issues; and deliver moderately complex features. The role collaborates with software engineering teams while working independently on larger assignments and using Agile and AI-assisted development practices.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Build and maintain enterprise web applications, APIs, and containerized microservices using Python and Django. Develop workflow engines, financial validation logic, relational database schemas, asynchronous integrations, role-based access controls, and CI/CD automation. Support complementary applications across multiple technology stacks while maintaining secure, auditable, and reliable systems.

Develop and deploy reliable software for a distributed SQL database in a fast-paced production environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and owning projects throughout the product lifecycle. Work may involve LLMs, vector indexes, database fault tolerance, SQL query performance, SIMD, LLVM code generation, search, and query optimization. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams while developing professionally alongside experienced engineers.

Develop and deploy reliable software for SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and improving systems involving query optimization, fault tolerance, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, LLMs, vector indexes, SIMD, and LLVM code generation. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration across teams, and participation throughout the product lifecycle.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Lead the architecture, technical evolution, and hands-on development of a mission-critical software platform using Java, C++, and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, security, technical planning, customer troubleshooting, deployment support, documentation, and engineering leadership. The role requires occasional customer travel and may support critical incidents outside normal business hours.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Own growth across the customer journey, including landing-page conversion, activation, paid conversion, retention, expansion, and monetization. Build and optimize product experiences, run A/B experiments, analyze results with SQL, and identify high-impact revenue opportunities. Develop scalable software using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and related technologies while applying AI to accelerate engineering workflows.

Build and own user-facing frontend interfaces across AI agents, app-building tools, mobile PWA experiences, and marketing pages. Responsibilities include frontend architecture, system design, data modeling, API design, maintaining high-quality monorepo code, independently shipping customer features, and delivering polished UX/UI. The role requires strong TypeScript and React expertise, familiarity with AI coding workflows, and ideally experience with containers, Postgres, and Redis.

Build and own user-facing features across Hercules’ AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, mobile app, and platform. Design scalable systems, APIs, data models, and high-quality code in a monorepo. Ship SaaS capabilities such as billing, analytics, feature flags, internationalization, and notifications. Apply strong product and UX judgment while working with TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI coding tools.