Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and mentor a full-stack engineering team while contributing 50% hands-on code. Drive architecture and cloud migration to SaaS, ensure scalability, performance, uptime, and CI/CD/infrastructure practices. Collaborate with product and design to deliver features, address technical debt, and improve velocity and monitoring across multi-region cloud services and client applications.

Provide technical design, configuration, administration, integration, and support for the company Zendesk CRM (Support, Guide, Chat/Messaging, Talk, Explore). Build workflows, triggers, automations, apps, reports/dashboards, and REST API/webhook integrations. Collaborate with business partners, PMO, and senior team members, follow SDLC and change-control processes, and create documentation and user training as needed.

Lead the frontend of a large healthcare application using TypeScript and React. Guide architecture, conduct code reviews, enforce test-first practices, and embed WCAG/Section 508 accessibility. Integrate AI coding assistants, collaborate on RESTful API integration with backend teams, mentor engineers, and participate in Agile planning and release readiness for a customer-facing product serving millions.

Maintain and extend long-term supported forks of major JavaScript frameworks. Develop and secure code in JavaScript/TypeScript, backport fixes, triage and patch CVEs, build CI/CD and automation, collaborate with security and OSS contributors, and drive platform reliability and architecture decisions.

Lead design and implementation of scalable APIs and agent communication layers for an AI-agent driven advertising marketplace. Build high-throughput backend systems, integrate agent frameworks and adtech partners, drive architecture for authentication and protocols, mentor engineers, and prototype agent communication patterns while collaborating with product and design.

Build and own end-to-end, production-grade full‑stack features across backend, frontend, data pipelines, and infrastructure. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business problems into shipped software, drive cross-team initiatives, and improve tooling and code quality. Use AI coding tools daily to accelerate development and maintain reliability for customer-facing products.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Lead frontend technical direction for the Trellis design system: design and build a production component library, define accessibility and theming models, create tooling and migration pipelines (codemods, refactoring automation), leverage AI coding agents, mentor senior engineers, and partner with PM/UX to drive frontend architecture and adoption across product teams.

Develop and maintain user interfaces and digital marketing tools, build reusable scalable front-end code, collaborate with back-end and cross-functional teams, troubleshoot and optimize site interaction and UX, lead projects, and stay current with web best practices and new technologies.