Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

Own customer data integrations for hospital systems and suppliers. Lead technical discovery, design and operate production data pipelines, troubleshoot live integration issues, build reusable connectors, and document support processes. Partner with product and engineering teams to improve the platform while communicating risks and timelines to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, production integration experience, customer-facing communication, and comfort working in ambiguous environments.

Build and maintain developer tools, SDKs, CLI, MCP interfaces, integrations, and supporting backend services. Collaborate on API contracts, compatibility, testing, releases, documentation, and shared tooling. Support developers through GitHub issues and pull requests while designing reliable systems with authentication, retries, idempotency, rate limits, monitoring, and error recovery.

Build and own production entity-resolution capabilities, including blocking, candidate generation, pairwise scoring, clustering, threshold policies, deduplication, and known-entity checks. Develop provenance systems for traceable, explainable graph relationships and matching decisions. Evaluate matching performance, document implementation logic, and balance false merges against false splits. Work remotely with occasional travel while supporting government mission applications.

Design, develop, test, and deploy supply chain software for inventory, warehouse, and fulfillment systems. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional Agile projects, decompose work, delegate tasks, and promote strong development and testing practices. Build monitoring systems that ensure business-process correctness and support high-volume, data-intensive applications.

Own database performance, reliability, observability, migrations, capacity planning, backups, and recovery for a distributed CockroachDB environment. Diagnose query, indexing, schema, contention, and transaction issues; guide database design and changes; support incident response; improve operational practices; and mentor engineers across infrastructure, platform, and application teams.

Own engineering delivery, organizational design, security, infrastructure, fraud initiatives, incident escalation, and cross-functional prioritization. Build scalable team structures, propose hiring plans, represent engineering to executives, and oversee infrastructure and data decisions. The role requires substantial engineering leadership experience, hands-on backend or full-stack development experience, and a track record of scaling engineering organizations at startups or scaleups.

Develops and maintains ServiceNow ITSM applications, workflows, integrations, Service Catalog, and CMDB capabilities. Leads sprint development, testing, demonstrations, UAT, stakeholder acceptance, secure coding, release documentation, and platform change processes. Implements customer-confirmed ticket closure workflows, supports Service Portal and analytics integrations, mentors developers and testers, and maintains technical standards. The hybrid Quantico role supports a government IT program and requires active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and up to 10% travel.

Administer and develop SharePoint and Power Platform solutions, including sites, forms, workflows, apps, reports, dashboards, migrations, and automations. Gather requirements, design and test solutions, troubleshoot issues, maintain documentation, provide technical support and user training, and communicate directly with clients. The role requires adherence to governance standards, independent testing, and delivery of customer-focused solutions.

Build applications, dashboards, workflows, and automations that solve operational challenges for public safety agencies. Embed onsite with agencies to understand their workflows, translate needs into technical requirements, develop and test solutions, drive adoption, and measure outcomes. Serve as a technical resource coordinating with Axon teams on deployments and complex issues, while sharing customer insights and reusable solutions with Product and Engineering.