Top Senior Python Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead design, standardization, and governance of enterprise NAS architecture. Drive vendor evaluations, platform performance improvements, automation/guardrails, and cross-team integrations. Support SRE escalations and adopt AI-enabled workflows to optimize operations, reducing incidents and improving resiliency.

Lead and coach multiple software engineering teams building post-trade technology, drive adoption of enterprise AI-assisted development, set SDLC automation and operating practices, influence budget and technical strategy, and ensure secure, resilient, and measurable delivery outcomes.

Lead and deliver front-office desk workflow applications for commodities systematic trading: partner with traders, own end-to-end SDLC, implement front-to-back integrations across Athena and partner systems, apply AI-enabled spec-driven development, mentor engineers, set enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices, and ensure operational robustness, security, and measurable delivery outcomes.

Lead full-stack engineering on cloud-native (AWS) systems for market and model risk. Design, develop, review, and operate secure production code, drive automation and CI/CD, adopt and validate AI-assisted engineering practices, improve resilience, and collaborate with product and regulatory stakeholders while mentoring teams and evaluating vendor solutions.

Lead SRE for Market Risk technology driving reliability, resiliency design, incident leadership, and mentoring. Uses observability and CI/CD tooling, container orchestration, and enterprise-authorized AI to improve SRE workflows, establish SLOs/error budgets, and reduce toil while ensuring security and auditability.

Lead technical design and delivery of cloud-native, resilient, and secure infrastructure for the Athena platform. Drive architecture, automation, IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes adoption, CI/CD, operational stability, and team best practices including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Lead development of a real-time equities derivatives pricing and risk platform. Collaborate with business, quant, and global technology teams; design, build, and enhance services; mentor Java developers; drive adoption and safe use of AI-assisted engineering; perform JVM performance tuning and third-level production support; document releases and ensure robust, test-driven solutions.

Lead an agile engineering team to design, develop, and operate secure, scalable applications. Provide technical guidance, write and review production code, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, influence product design, and promote firmwide SDLC practices using cloud-native, microservices, and Big Data technologies.

Lead and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native software solutions; write and review code; drive AI-assisted engineering adoption; evaluate vendors; promote operational stability and engineering best practices.

Lead full‑stack development of scalable, secure services and UI using Java, Python, and React. Build AI/agentic capabilities with Smart SDK, design data/search solutions (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch), drive cloud-native engineering on AWS with Terraform, improve SDLC via AI-assisted tooling, mentor engineers, and deliver operational reliability.

Lead and support reliability, performance, and operational integrity of equities electronic trading systems. Provide hands-on DevOps/SRE production support for FIX connectivity, Linux troubleshooting, Grafana observability, Kafka on AWS, incident triage, root cause analysis, automation via Python and Bash, and cross-team collaboration including investigating C++ components.

Lead the design, operation, and resilience of block/file/object storage across on-prem and cloud. Drive incident response, performance tuning, capacity planning, automation, SLO/SLI ownership, observability/AIOps implementation, runbooks, backups/DR, and cross-team collaboration to meet reliability targets.

Lead design and implementation of automated, secure, scalable database platform services. Build backend services, APIs, self-service tooling, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines; drive automation, code quality, and technical leadership across global teams.

Lead an agile team to design, build, and deliver secure, scalable full-stack applications. Drive adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering, evaluate vendors, mentor engineers on responsible AI, and promote best practices across software development and cloud infrastructure.

Lead architecture and engineering for a global commodities trading platform. Design and deliver low-latency, scalable distributed systems, collaborate with traders, quants, and product teams, set engineering standards, and modernize platform capabilities across trade capture, pricing, risk, and downstream processes.

As a Software Engineer at Citadel, you will build systems for investments, collaborate with researchers, and tackle complex problems.

Lead and manage a team building highly available, scalable full-stack microservices for global payments. Drive cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and occasionally write or review code. Ensure regulatory-compliant, secure, and performant payment infrastructure.

Lead a team and portfolio building resilient, high-throughput full-stack microservices for Capital One's Global Payment Network. Collaborate with product, mentor engineers, modernize cloud-based platforms, and occasionally code or review solutions using cloud, containers, databases, and multiple programming languages.

Lead diverse technology projects and teams to create solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and implement cloud-based solutions.

Lead and deliver cloud-based, full-stack solutions for a global payments network. Manage a portfolio and team, design distributed microservices, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and use cloud, container, database, and multi-language technologies to meet regulatory and business needs.

Lead and manage a team building scalable, resilient distributed and full-stack payment systems. Define technical strategy, drive architecture, deliver cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers to meet regulatory and performance needs for high-throughput transaction processing.

Perform classical and FEA structural analyses (linear/nonlinear statics, modal, transient, random, frequency response) to ensure hardware integrity. Calculate failure modes (fatigue, fracture, buckling), evaluate joints, support design reviews, prepare reports and certification documentation, and coordinate with project teams and customers. Support fracture control and fatigue-life assessments for aerospace and oilfield hardware.

The Senior Software Developer will design and develop scalable backend services, manage databases, build user interfaces, and implement AI/ML models while collaborating across teams to enhance a marketing technology platform.

The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for ensuring software quality through test automation, designing test strategies, mentoring, and collaborating in an agile team.

As a Software Engineering Architect, you'll lead teams in developing complex software and cloud solutions, engaging with clients, mentoring junior staff, and utilizing diverse technologies to solve business challenges.