Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Set the multi-year technical direction for the Builder Platform, leading agent platforms, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Establish governance, architecture, standards, metrics, and adoption strategies across the company. Partner with engineering and business leaders to prioritize AI opportunities, improve developer productivity, guide customer-zero feedback into products and open-source frameworks, mentor technical leaders, and reduce operational burden through systemic improvements.

Build and operate Temporal’s internal Agent Platform, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, agents, workflows, and engineering tools. The role includes establishing governance and reliability controls, partnering cross-functionally to accelerate work, driving adoption, measuring usage and productivity, contributing to open-source architectures, and participating in on-call support.

Lead the rearchitecture and development of a cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and partner integrations using modern cloud, DevOps, observability, and security practices. Drive architectural strategy, technical debt reduction, incident response, code quality, compliance, and continuous delivery. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product and architecture teams, evaluate emerging technologies, and own capabilities through project delivery.

Develop and maintain runtime products by researching legacy codebases, backporting CVE security patches, building packages across Linux distributions and architectures, and creating automated testing and AI-assisted security workflows. The role requires deep C/C++ systems expertise, build-toolchain archaeology, cross-compilation experience, and strong ownership of correctness. It also includes customer support for compatibility and upgrade issues.

Develop and maintain Pioneer Desktop, an Electron application connecting sewer inspection trucks with cameras, sensors, and cloud services. Responsibilities include hardware integrations, reliable video recording, offline data storage, cloud synchronization, crash diagnostics, software updates, testing, and release management. The role also involves debugging Windows systems, resolving field issues, collaborating with product and design teams, visiting customers and hardware vendors, and improving operator workflows.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Build core banking activation experiences for administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Design and implement scalable microservices using domain-driven design, emphasizing clean, tested, documented code, error handling, logging, and performance. Contribute to system architecture, advocate for technical decisions, review code, and provide technical guidance to teammates in an Agile Scrum environment.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers. Develop streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations such as Plaid and SendGrid. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance considerations. Apply system design, domain-driven design, and microservice architecture while working in an Agile Scrum environment. Provide architectural guidance, technical recommendations, and code reviews to improve team output.

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Build customer-facing AI products for fitness and wellness businesses, develop agentic workflows, modernize architecture, and improve infrastructure, CI, observability, and production reliability. Own features end to end, work across the TypeScript and JavaScript stack, ship iterative product improvements, and mentor teammates through code review and pairing. The role requires strong product judgment, autonomy, full-stack capability, and hands-on experience with AI tooling and production systems.

Administer and engineer enterprise observability platforms spanning infrastructure, applications, cloud resources, and telemetry. Lead technical onboarding, monitoring design, alerting, dashboards, automation, integrations, troubleshooting, capacity planning, licensing optimization, upgrades, and migrations. Establish standards and documentation, collaborate with vendors and procurement, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong systems thinking, cloud and production support experience, scripting or infrastructure-as-code expertise, and the ability to resolve complex reliability and performance issues.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.

Lead architecture and development of significant backend platform features from concept through release. Design scalable distributed systems, write technical proposals, assess business impacts, and ensure dependable performance. Use AI coding assistants while validating code quality and safety, coach engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams. The role requires expert Node.js and TypeScript skills, experience with message queues, and ownership of substantial product areas.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

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.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug C++ software for ultra-low-latency WebRTC streaming. Implement real-time transport, security, media, and congestion-control protocols; contribute to standards and protocol solutions; define streaming quality KPIs; and integrate software with platform, connectivity, automotive, and hardware systems.

Develop and maintain automated integration and deployment for components in a Kubernetes-based software stack. Manage third-party dependencies, validate compatibility, maintain integration workflows, troubleshoot cross-component issues, and ensure compatibility with NVIDIA hardware. The role requires extensive Linux software development experience, Python proficiency, Kubernetes and container expertise, and collaboration with QA, CI/CD, development teams, and upstream projects.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

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.