Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads globally distributed software engineering teams, setting technical strategy, architecture, delivery processes, and engineering standards for AWS-based SaaS products. Partners with Product, Data Analytics, and Customer Success, develops engineering talent, manages vendors, drives continuous improvement, and promotes AI-assisted development practices. The role requires extensive software engineering and executive leadership experience, Ruby on Rails and asynchronous architecture expertise, AWS scalability knowledge, and experience managing remote global teams.

Leads and mentors software engineers while designing, architecting, developing, and delivering scalable web applications. Owns technical solutions from requirements through implementation, conducts code reviews, resolves complex issues, and enforces quality, security, and performance standards. Collaborates with product, architecture, and QA teams on Agile delivery, release management, and DevOps practices. Uses cloud platforms, CI/CD, and modern frontend and backend technologies to build secure software, potentially within regulated medical-device environments.

Build and maintain full-stack features for secure, high-volume fintech and cryptocurrency transactions. Develop Golang and Java backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React/Next.js applications. Integrate third-party systems, implement OAuth 2.0 authentication, work with microservices, and ensure security, performance, reliability, and observability. Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature ownership in a fully remote environment.

Design, develop, and scale mission-critical backend applications and distributed services. Build Python and Celery services, FastMCP services, Docker Swarm environments, and horizontally scalable architectures. Optimize Couchbase and NoSQL data systems, troubleshoot Linux-based distributed environments, and apply cloud-native AWS practices. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, reliable solutions while using spec-driven development and AI coding tools.

Develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Collaborate with architects, product teams, customers, and engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, security and privacy practices, and root-cause analysis. Use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery while maintaining accountability for software quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Develop and maintain scalable cloud-native web applications using Java, Angular, Docker, APIs, and backend integrations. Build secure services within DevSecOps pipelines and Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance, AWS and Security+ certifications, and experience with Kafka, Cognito, Temporal, and potentially Oracle. Preferred qualifications include generative AI, RAG, AI agents, vector databases, and federal or DoD experience.

Build and maintain full-stack applications that deliver AI/ML insights through backend services, REST APIs, containerized microservices, and high-performance front-end interfaces. Responsibilities include cloud-native development on Google Cloud or Azure, database management, testing, CI/CD automation, security, troubleshooting, and Agile collaboration.

Build and maintain data-intensive, interactive web products across the full stack. Architect and implement API and frontend features, validate FastAPI responses with Pydantic, access Postgres via SQLAlchemy, optimize performance and scalability, implement testing and QA, participate in code reviews, refine UX, and help define engineering processes at an early-stage company.

Leads hands-on Appian application development across design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, production support, and incident triage. Serves as the senior developer on an Agile team, coordinating with product owners, business analysts, UX, and QA. Produces architecture and technical documentation, guides integrations and security modeling, oversees development tasks, performs peer reviews, and supports compliance, risk management, and continuous Appian platform improvement.

Build and deploy customer-specific integrations, data pipelines, log-source connections, and detection capabilities for eSentire’s Atlas platform. Own requests from scoping through customer validation, work directly with senior customer engineers, operate independently in a newly established function, and identify repeat solutions that should become broadly available platform capabilities. Success is measured by faster time-to-value, deeper integration coverage, renewals, expansions, and platform improvements derived from customer work.