Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead iOS engineering for the Subscription Growth team, building and improving premium subscription experiences, paywalls, upsell experiments, and promotional offers. Develop high-quality, testable solutions, refactor architecture, support automated app builds and releases, and collaborate across iOS, Android, web, backend, and infrastructure teams. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on design, security, testing, deployment, and rapid experimentation.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Designs and maintains automated and manual testing strategies, test suites, and test plans. Identifies and tracks defects, performs API, load, and performance testing, and contributes to feature development and bug fixes. Provides testing guidance, participates in code reviews and planning, supports release quality decisions, and promotes software quality across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and own production-grade platform subsystems for Stacklok Enterprise, writing Go software that runs on customer Kubernetes environments. Collaborate with leadership, mentor engineers, support customer onboarding and troubleshooting, contribute to the open-source ToolHive project, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role also involves improving engineering workflows through AI-assisted development and owning platform areas from design through ongoing production operations.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Leads architecture, hands-on software development, deployment, and production issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, engineering, product, and customer success teams to prioritize strategic programs, improve customer value, share technical best practices, and remove production blockers.

Provides technical leadership for Azure cloud-scale distributed data platforms processing network telemetry and operational data. Defines architecture and long-term technical strategy, leads streaming and batch system design, resolves complex scalability and reliability challenges, oversees production readiness and continuous improvement, and influences cross-team technical investments. Partners across Azure Networking, conducts design reviews, establishes reusable engineering patterns, improves observability and quality, and mentors engineers and technical leaders.

Leads architecture, development, and operation of Python-based AWS backend and IoT services. Designs Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, databases, device communication, and infrastructure as code. Provides hands-on technical leadership through coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional planning, security practices, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and roadmap development.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Build and scale AI-powered web applications using Ruby on Rails and React. Develop full-stack features, prototypes, and LLM capabilities while independently owning projects from inception through delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, iterate rapidly based on feedback, review AI-generated code, and make sound technical decisions with minimal guidance.

Leads architecture, development, deployment, and operation of scalable Java and Kotlin applications. Responsibilities include backend-focused full-stack development, Kafka data streaming, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, performance optimization, incident response, technical leadership, mentoring, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also drives AI-assisted engineering practices and modernization initiatives while supporting on-call operations.

Own the team’s quality strategy, automation architecture, test frameworks, synthetic-data safeguards, CI feedback, and non-functional testing. Design reliable testing for concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services; diagnose failures across product, automation, data, and environments; and establish AI-assisted quality practices with human oversight. Define risk-based verification, exploratory testing, PHI protections, testability requirements, and residual-risk communication while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Platform.

Design and maintain Anaconda’s internal package build and release platform, improving security, access control, reliability, and operational resilience. Responsibilities include writing software and architecture documentation, reviewing code, diagnosing complex issues, partnering across teams, using AI tools to reduce toil, mentoring engineers, and driving investments that reduce production risk. The role focuses on Python-based infrastructure, platform tooling, DevOps, and SRE practices in a fully remote environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and support of complex, scalable software components and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership through architecture decisions, mentoring, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Partners with product, quality, architecture, and DevOps teams on secure cloud-native solutions, CI/CD, observability, performance, releases, and platform modernization. Participates in hiring and communicates technical risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Design, scale, and maintain high-performance services supporting player registration, authentication, identity verification, fraud and AML screening, geolocation, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and communications. The role involves architecting features, optimizing production systems, managing monitoring and integrations, mentoring engineers, handling migrations, and collaborating across teams. Candidates will operate containerized services, support on-call rotations, and build secure, auditable systems using modern web frameworks, databases, event infrastructure, and authentication standards.

Designs and builds cloud-native maintenance planning software for U.S. Navy and defense customers. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, developing data transformations and APIs, designing microservices, implementing identity and access controls, ensuring data quality and compliance, and leading architecture and technical delivery. The role collaborates with government, vendor, platform, and engineering stakeholders, mentors engineers, documents systems, and supports development through production sustainment in a remote environment.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and support of scalable, fault-tolerant software applications. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, debugging, performance optimization, cloud-native and microservices development, Kubernetes operations, production monitoring, incident response, code reviews, technical planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes to product roadmaps, engineering standards, automation, and on-call support.

Build and maintain scalable billing and monetization systems for subscription, pricing, and payment workflows. Develop large-scale applications using Java, AWS, Lambda, event-driven architecture, REST APIs, and GraphQL. Work with multiple databases, implement automated testing, protect data integrity, and collaborate with internal teams to deliver customer-facing pricing and upgrade experiences.

Build a modern web application from its earliest stages as a contract senior software engineer. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, clean architecture, dependency inversion and dependency injection. The technology stack includes .NET Core, Entity Framework, MediatR, FastEndpoints, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL and Azure.

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

Build and scale a telemedicine platform using React, TypeScript, Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL. Own features through development, deployment, and launch; develop integrations; write tests; conduct design and code reviews; resolve production issues; and collaborate with Product, Design, and Quality teams in a Scrum environment. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and communicating technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.

Lead the design, development, and architecture of scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, integrations, Agentforce, and Salesforce Data Cloud. Responsibilities include AI agent architecture, data ingestion and activation, security and governance, performance optimization, CI/CD support, code reviews, mentoring, troubleshooting, and translating business requirements into technical designs.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into scalable designs, writing and reviewing code, leading sprint teams, removing delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and guiding technical strategy. The role emphasizes microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, APIs, messaging, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for technical direction across customer-facing online experiences. Designs scalable, secure software, reusable architecture, APIs, observability, automation, and resilient production systems. Partners with product, UX, and engineering teams; supports production services, defines reliability objectives, tunes performance, leads testing and incident response, and mentors engineers. The role also applies generative AI and AI-assisted development practices across the product lifecycle.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions for publisher websites. Own Freestar’s Prebid.js and Prebid Server header-bidding wrapper, including architecture, adapters, modules, releases, and performance. Integrate with Google Ad Manager, GPT, IMA SDK, and programmatic advertising systems. Monitor Core Web Vitals, reliability, and network performance while reviewing code, resolving critical issues, and guiding technical decisions.