Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and maintain full-stack web applications, including responsive front ends, server-side logic, RESTful APIs, microservices, and SQL/NoSQL databases. Collaborate with product managers and designers, participate across the software development lifecycle, troubleshoot application issues, optimize performance and security, and ensure cross-platform responsiveness. The role requires strong coding, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills in a remote-first agile environment.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

Build and lead architecture for ServiceTitan’s AI-native developer platform, including coding-agent runtimes, orchestration layers, harnesses, build systems, CI/CD, developer portals, safety guardrails, and compliance infrastructure. Deliver production-scale platform projects autonomously, influence engineering direction across teams, anticipate long-term technology needs, establish reusable engineering patterns, and mentor senior engineers.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Architects scalable distributed systems and low-level cloud platform services, establishes engineering standards and SLOs, designs CI/CD and deployment safety pipelines, leads complex incident escalations and postmortems, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires full-stack, API, and microservices development in Linux or Unix environments, strong SRE expertise, architectural leadership, and US citizenship with eligibility for security clearance.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for AccessOne’s financing platform across frontend, backend, data systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. Modernize production systems, build accurate and auditable financial workflows, lead complex initiatives through deployment, and establish engineering practices. Use AI coding tools responsibly while ensuring software quality, security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.

Leads engineering strategy for platform systems, including modularizing a Python/FastAPI monolith, advancing AI-native development, enabling AI feature delivery, and strengthening application security. Oversees identity, audit logging, API and MCP gateways, reliability, and shared services. Manages engineering managers and senior engineers, drives organizational alignment, reduces technical debt, recruits talent, and builds secure, high-velocity developer platforms.

Design, develop, and support enterprise API/SOA integrations using Apigee, Axway, and Oracle SOA. Build transformations (including B2B-EDI/XML), perform testing, participate in 24x7 on-call rotation, and collaborate with analysts, PMs, and stakeholders to maintain and improve mission-critical integration platforms.

Build and deploy production full-stack web features using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. Own front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, cloud services, testing, security, debugging, documentation, and deployment. Collaborate directly with leadership, mentor volunteers, and rapidly deliver reliable software for a global nonprofit platform.

Build secure software for government and defense clients using Palantir Foundry and modern engineering practices. Responsibilities include decomposing business problems, supporting agentic development, pairing with client and military engineers, delivering continuously, measuring user outcomes, facilitating technical discussions, managing technical debt, and mentoring less experienced engineers. The role requires full-stack development, API development, containerization, DevSecOps, TDD, agile methods, and active DoD clearance.