Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead an engineering organization building secure enterprise container and Kubernetes platforms. Define technical strategy, improve platform resilience and operational excellence, embed security throughout the SDLC, balance feature delivery with stability, hire and develop engineering talent, and collaborate with product leaders, executives, and enterprise customers.

Build Doowii’s conversational analytics platform across frontend, backend, data interaction, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include creating data-query interfaces, developing APIs, integrating AI-driven features, optimizing query and storage performance, managing AWS and GCP systems, designing data models, and maintaining ingestion pipelines involving NiFi, Kafka, Iceberg, and BigQuery. The role also involves model evaluation, schema evolution, change data capture, high-throughput streaming, automation, and rapid startup iteration.

Provides executive leadership for software engineering across regulated clinical, patient-facing, platform, and device-integrated systems. Oversees delivery, scalability, quality, compliance, engineering operations, CI/CD modernization, AI-assisted development, and organizational growth. Leads engineering executives and partners cross-functionally across product, clinical, regulatory, quality, security, machine learning, and IT. Requires extensive leadership of Software as a Medical Device products through development, validation, regulatory approval, commercialization, and post-market support.

Leads a hands-on software engineering organization developing AI-enabled legal automation platforms. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, owning delivery and platform reliability, managing distributed teams, translating legal workflow requirements into scalable systems, and partnering with product, legal operations, executives, vendors, and clients. The role requires oversight of multi-tenant security, AI capabilities, Agile delivery, hiring, mentoring, and engineering quality.

Lead end-to-end development of modern frontend initiatives using React and Electron. Design scalable architecture, improve performance and test coverage, resolve production issues, influence technical decisions, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams. The role includes mentoring engineers, maintaining code quality, supporting observability and incident response, and building secure, high-quality customer-facing payment and form workflows.

Executive technology leader responsible for strategy, modernization, and operations across a global fintech SaaS portfolio. Oversees software engineering, QA, DevOps, cloud operations, security, customer engineering, and technology partnerships. Leads AI adoption, platform consolidation, cloud optimization, compliance, reliability, customer implementation, budgeting, vendor management, and organizational transformation across complex, regulated products.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize high-performance iOS and macOS applications using SwiftUI. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver reliable user experiences for artists, managers, and touring crews. Apply testing strategies, ensure application stability across devices and workflows, and stay current with SwiftUI and software development trends.

Leads development and sustainment of the DOW logistics application using Java, JavaScript, and SQL. Designs application components, integrations, backend services, and system architecture; provides technical guidance; troubleshoots issues; improves performance; enforces code quality; collaborates with QA, DevSecOps, and systems engineers; and maintains technical documentation.

Owns day-to-day database operations and backup/recovery for a large multi-account AWS environment. Maintains RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases, validates backup restoration, executes disaster-recovery runbooks, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud architecture teams. Supports escalations from a 24x7 monitoring team and helps advance managed services and Cloud Center of Excellence capabilities.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.