Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Leads Windows Server infrastructure engineering across physical, virtual, and container environments. Designs automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and machine imaging; supports cloud migration, resilience, security, compliance, and modernization. Drives complex infrastructure programs, enterprise software engineering standards, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. Collaborates with cross-functional teams and communicates technical outcomes to business and leadership stakeholders.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Lead software engineering role supporting FICC and trading systems across front-, middle-, and back-office operations. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining secure, resilient production software; leading AI-assisted engineering adoption; automating recurring remediation; and evaluating vendor and architectural solutions. Requires advanced programming expertise, AWS cloud-native experience, financial services knowledge, and strong software development lifecycle skills. Preferred experience includes AWS certifications and AI engineering involving LLMs, agentic AI, automation, and anomaly detection.

Leads full-stack software engineering for market risk, model risk, and treasury technology. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, debugging, and operating secure, scalable applications; providing technical direction; governing AI-assisted engineering practices; validating AI outputs for security and correctness; improving SDLC automation; and serving as a subject matter expert across engineering teams.

Leads software engineering for JPMorganChase risk technology, designing, coding, testing, and delivering Python or Java solutions, automation, AI-assisted engineering, data pipelines, and resilient production services. Owns application risk, security, compliance, observability, reliability, remediation, and operational improvements. Collaborates across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, promotes responsible AI tool adoption, and drives secure, scalable, high-quality software delivery.

Design, implement, maintain, integrate, and test flight software for Nebula spacecraft. Responsibilities include hardware/software integration, I/O performance assessment, serial and packetized communications, unit and integration testing, and collaboration with hardware engineering teams.

Develops and maintains high-fidelity spacecraft simulation models, including environmental, vehicle, sensor, effector, and interface models. Responsibilities include real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation, HWIL testing, FDIR fault modeling, verification and unit testing, SQA tool development, and support for flight software, ground software, and operations teams. The role collaborates with aerospace, GNC, vehicle software, and subsystem engineers.

Lead software engineering for secure, scalable applications in Java, Python, and Node.js across AWS and Kubernetes environments. Responsibilities include system design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, code review, SDLC improvement, and technical guidance. The role leads responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, establishes validation standards, supports automation, and influences application design and technical operations.

Lead software engineering efforts across Java, Python, and cloud-native environments. Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain secure software using AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker. Provide technical guidance, review code, improve SDLC automation, and promote responsible AI-assisted engineering practices. Influence product design and technical operations while supporting resilient, scalable applications and mentoring teams.

Leads full-stack software engineering within JPMorgan Chase’s supply chain technology team. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining secure, scalable production systems; advancing AI-assisted engineering practices; automating recurring issue remediation; ensuring application resiliency and security; and evaluating vendor and internal technology solutions. Requires strong software development, cloud-native, agile, financial-services technology, and responsible AI expertise.

Lead technical strategy and execution for foundational Trust and Safety systems supporting consumer risk and credit reporting. Design and operate highly available backend systems, improve reliability and monitoring, establish engineering standards, guide complex cross-functional initiatives, and mentor engineers. The role involves ownership of system architecture, technical planning, operational readiness, code quality, and team development.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Build and ship production software for Toast’s retail platform, partnering with engineering, product, and customers. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, designing and prototyping end-to-end solutions, making foundational technical decisions, incorporating customer feedback, tracking industry trends, and deploying AI-powered experiences. The role supports large grocery and convenience-store customers and may involve visiting stores to understand operator workflows.

Build and scale the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers across PSA Partner Offers and eBay Consignment. Responsibilities include developing buyer tooling, pricing and ranking engines, seller experiences, microservices, distributed event-driven systems, and observability. The role owns end-to-end product delivery, cross-functional execution, technical architecture, ecosystem integrations, and production outcomes while using AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Build and own full-stack services and APIs enabling businesses to offer and manage 401(k) plans. Design scalable features, evolve system architecture, establish engineering best practices, collaborate with product, design, compliance, and operations, debug production issues, and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling. The role requires end-to-end system ownership, production support, and cross-team technical influence.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Develop fullstack web applications, enhance platform performance, collaborate on high-impact opportunities, and ensure stable, scalable solutions. Engage in rapid iterations and be a committed team player.

Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance software systems and public-facing APIs. Lead system design, apply agentic coding workflows, collaborate with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers, and own initiatives improving efficiency, performance, and customer satisfaction. The role requires extensive experience with highly available distributed systems, API versioning and rate limiting, modern backend and frontend technologies, AWS, and Domain-Driven Design.

Design, build, and own backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting customer care workflows. The role connects Salesforce, billing, identity verification, document management, and iPaaS platforms; requires automated testing, code reviews, incident response, performance monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will also apply AI tools and may build production LLM solutions.