Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

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

Leads development of secure, scalable Java full-stack software for a digital identity team. Designs, codes, tests, troubleshoots, and reviews production applications; improves resiliency and automation; promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices; and evaluates vendor and architectural solutions. Requires cloud-native experience with AWS and Kubernetes, REST API development, agile delivery, security, and CI/CD. Familiarity with IAM technologies and ForgeRock or Ping Identity is preferred.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, production-grade data-intensive applications and platforms. Build reusable frameworks, leverage enterprise AI-assisted development tools responsibly, collaborate across teams, and ensure scalability, observability, and operational stability for a global KYC and risk data platform.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend systems while collaborating across teams.

Leads software engineering within JPMorganChase’s Corporate Data and Analytics team. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, debugging, and supporting secure, scalable production systems; reviewing code; improving operational stability; automating recurring remediation; and evaluating architectural solutions. The role also drives responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, coaches teams on secure validation practices, manages stakeholders and vendors, and supports data ingestion, management, and analytics initiatives.

Lead UI architecture and design for responsive web applications; build reusable components with Angular/React/Vue and TypeScript/JavaScript; integrate UIs with RESTful microservices; enforce accessibility, security, testing, and CI/CD standards; mentor developers and collaborate with UX, backend, and DevOps teams in Agile environments.

Design and implement CIAM backend services for authentication and authorization. Integrate identity systems, manage secure flows, and automate infrastructure.

Supports, maintains, troubleshoots, tests, and improves PDI enterprise software products. Diagnoses production issues, tunes SQL performance, documents solutions, estimates feature work, and collaborates with product and engineering stakeholders in an Agile environment. Uses AI-assisted development tools and contributes to AI-powered engineering workflows. Provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers and communicates customer risks, status, and escalation needs.

Leads design, development, testing, debugging, and operational stability for secure, scalable Java microservices using Spring and JPA. Reviews production code, automates recurring remediation, improves CI/CD and software delivery, and promotes enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering practices. Evaluates architectures and vendors, leads technical communities of practice, and coaches teams on responsible, secure AI adoption and software engineering standards within financial services.

As a Billing & Analytics Software Engineer, you'll design and maintain the billing pipeline, integrate billing systems, and develop customer-facing analytics dashboards to support revenue recognition and operational observability.

Leads development of secure, scalable software for a distributed multi-tenant platform, including APIs, data ingestion, pipelines, dashboards, and isolated AWS deployments. Designs and operates cloud-native Kubernetes workloads, promotes automation and AI-assisted engineering practices, and champions security, privacy, and supply-chain controls. Evaluates architectures, mentors teams, improves operational stability, and supports platform delivery across regulated environments.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Design, implement, and maintain partner integration solutions; translate partner requirements into scalable technical implementations; troubleshoot and automate fixes; collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve tools and ensure successful partner onboarding and launches.

Lead design and delivery of scalable customer-facing features, services, and APIs that process real-time data and AI-powered insights. Build web experiences, contribute to LLM/AI workflows, ensure reliability through observability and rollout practices, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Leads full-stack software engineering for JPMorganChase’s Wholesale Credit Risk technology team. Designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, and reviews secure production code; improves application resilience and operational stability; promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices; automates recurring remediation; and evaluates architectures and technologies with vendors and internal teams. The role requires cloud-native development, agile SDLC expertise, financial services knowledge, data architecture, modern front-end technologies, GraphQL, and API development.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Leads development of secure, scalable software solutions within an agile financial-services environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, debugging, reviewing production code, improving application stability through automation, applying AI-assisted engineering practices responsibly, and evaluating vendor and architectural solutions. The role requires advanced Python expertise, cloud-native experience, SDLC proficiency, software security knowledge, and familiarity with banking technology systems.

Leads design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and operational stability for secure full-stack software solutions. Develops Java and Scala statistical algorithms, React-based applications, microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native services using AWS, Hadoop, Databricks, and Kubernetes. Reviews code, improves automation and resiliency, performs unit and integration testing, and promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, secure coding, and compliant validation across an agile team.

Design, scope, and implement scalable backend and platform solutions for a reservations and waitlist product. Improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, identify high-impact opportunities, and contribute across the stack including APIs and front-end integration.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Architect and re-engineer highly scalable, resilient backend data systems supporting patient services. Lead distributed systems strategy, make architectural decisions, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, establish operational practices, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape engineering and product direction.