Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and mentor an engineering team to deliver high-quality SaaS features end-to-end. Drive architecture and technical decisions, manage execution and support escalations, improve CI/CD and observability, track delivery KPIs, and participate in hiring and career development to scale the team in a fast-growing startup environment.

Lead full‑stack modernization of a legacy .NET/SQL Server payment-integrity platform. Build modular Angular frontends and resilient .NET microservices, improve APIs, optimize database performance, embed security/privacy, use AI coding agents to accelerate refactors, and drive delivery with strong observability and testing practices.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you will design and build internal tools for go-to-market teams, focusing on applications that enhance sales and customer engagement, employing modern tech and AI workflows.

The Backend Engineer will improve reliability and scalability of services, develop new services, and analyze operational efficiencies while collaborating closely with the engineering team.

Build and maintain an agentic support platform and full‑stack support tooling (UI, APIs, jobs, integrations). Integrate CRM/ticketing/data systems, implement LLM-driven workflows with safe handoffs, observability, and on‑call ownership to improve support efficiency and SLAs.

Design, develop, test, and deploy Salesforce solutions including Apex, Flow automations, and Lightning Web Components. Work with clients to gather requirements, participate in Agile sprints, perform code reviews and unit testing, troubleshoot issues, and produce technical documentation while following SSDLC practices.

Lead design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade React Native iOS and Android apps. Drive mobile architecture, CI/CD, security (OAuth2), performance optimization, testing, and cross-functional collaboration. Mentor developers and support production releases.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to design and deliver scalable, high-performance systems. Define technical roadmaps, set code quality standards, drive architecture and technical debt resolution, collaborate with Product and Design, make technology decisions, lead hiring and interviews, and research new tools to solve complex problems while advocating for engineering priorities and timely feature delivery.

Design, develop, and maintain Linux kernel components for Rocky Linux. Write and review C code, build kernel testing and automation, debug kernel-level issues, optimize performance, collaborate with hardware engineers, document designs, and mentor junior developers.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.