Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead technical direction for a major product domain, reduce architectural debt, mentor engineers, standardize AI-agent workflows, and design scalable backend solutions integrating LLMs and cloud services. Drive cross-team RFCs, cookbook standards, and adopt agentic AI tooling while balancing security, quality, and delivery.

Senior technologist and innovation leader driving cross-domain digital transformation (data, AI, cloud, DevSecOps, ITSM, cybersecurity) in federal consulting. Leads innovation strategy, builds reusable solution accelerators, supports federal proposal development, engages senior government clients, and formalizes innovation methodologies to deliver scalable, secure, mission-focused solutions.

Lead design and implementation of backend services and distributed systems for real-time AI automation. Build scalable, observable microservices, streaming data pipelines, and async event-driven architectures. Collaborate across frontend, product, and DevOps to ensure performance, reliability, and seamless integration at scale.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead operational engineering across three product lines: roadmap delivery, release coordination, incident/on-call programs, staffing and capacity planning, engineering metrics, and AI-native engineering governance. Manage and develop engineering managers, partner with Product and Finance, and quantify AI-assisted development ROI.

Lead architect and SME for Epic interoperability: design complex interfaces (bidirectional, FHIR APIs, cloud services), drive enterprise interface projects, resolve Cloverleaf/Bridges issues, maintain standards and KPIs, liaise with clinical teams and vendors, and mentor analysts.

Provide technical design, development, administration, and support for the company's Zendesk CRM (Support, Guide, Chat/Messaging, Talk, Explore). Build/configure workflows, triggers, automations, macros, views, and dashboards; implement API and webhook integrations; develop Explore reports; troubleshoot in test environments; follow SDLC and change control; produce documentation and train users; collaborate with business partners and PMO.

Lead and mentor a full-stack engineering team to transition desktop and mobile apps to cloud-based SaaS. Own architecture, feature development, infrastructure, reliability, monitoring, and code quality while contributing hands-on (approx. 50% coding, 50% leadership). Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design scalable, performant features and reduce technical debt.

Build and operate backend systems and APIs (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. Lead cross-team integrations, extend AI features into customer experiences, own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive a product-focused roadmap with iterative delivery.

Provide hands-on support for the Mphasis Javelina platform and legacy systems, troubleshoot production and data issues, modernize AS400/finance applications using C#/.NET, automate and maintain reporting and SQL processes, manage accumulator and claims data loads, and develop operational documentation and runbooks to improve reliability and reduce manual work.