Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Leads the design and development of a highly distributed edge computing platform using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building scalable and fault-tolerant systems, designing APIs, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting complex distributed software issues, optimizing performance and security, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, planning projects, and maintaining technical documentation.

Develop and support a cloud-native workload credentials management solution within a SaaS platform. Responsibilities include designing scalable full-stack services, orchestration, APIs, distributed systems, and microservices; providing technical leadership; leading projects through delivery; collaborating cross-functionally; mentoring engineers; and applying engineering best practices. The role requires extensive Go development, cloud and SaaS expertise, modern JavaScript frameworks, and experience operating enterprise systems at scale.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Suwali, translating broad goals into practical plans and delivering work from exploration through deployment and follow-up. Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues, assess user feedback and data, communicate progress clearly, and contribute to product decisions. The role requires production engineering across frontend and backend systems, with potential future responsibility for managing and mentoring engineers.

Own and re-architect Filevine’s end-to-end CI/CD systems across .NET, Python, and Svelte. Build internal developer tooling, improve testing and feedback cycles, enhance local development and onboarding, instrument DORA delivery metrics, and introduce AI-assisted development practices. The role includes infrastructure-as-code, containerization, mentorship, cross-team process improvement, and on-call ownership for delivered systems.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Develop and assure safety-critical software for autonomous ground vehicles. Perform hazard analyses including FHA, FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and robotic capability assessments; define safety architectures, requirements, mechanisms, and verification activities; support testing, technical reviews, and safety audits. Collaborate across engineering teams on MIL-STD-882E processes, model-based safety, embedded systems, AI/ML, and autonomous vehicle capabilities while communicating safety considerations and technical progress.

Design, build, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, mobile platforms, booking systems, clinical integrations, and healthcare data systems. Own features end to end, make architectural decisions, improve security and reliability, and contribute to cloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps. Collaborate with clinical, operations, and patient experience teams to deliver secure digital tools that improve patient care and clinic efficiency.

Owns the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of production software. Builds C#/.NET backend services, Angular web applications, and .NET MAUI mobile apps; optimizes SQL Server databases; resolves production issues; improves reliability, security, performance, and observability; writes tests and documentation; participates in code reviews; and translates ambiguous business needs into maintainable technical solutions.

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

Drive projects that improve AI agent effectiveness across software development workflows. Build and maintain reliable developer tooling, iOS frameworks, libraries, build systems, and testing infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to improve developer productivity, increase AI agent efficiency and reliability, and deliver roadmap initiatives across large-scale codebases.

Design and implement experiments deep within browser engine subsystems, including DOM, layout, rendering, accessibility, JavaScript runtimes, and networking. Investigate browser behavior, prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction, measure performance and correctness, profile overhead, and document results. The role requires hands-on systems engineering, browser platform expertise, large-codebase development, and collaboration on AI-agent tooling.

Build and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test reliability, observability, and engineering productivity at scale. Own services from architecture through production, including SLOs and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional technical projects, partner with engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy.

Build and ship customer-facing transaction features end to end, including APIs, data models, pipelines, integrations, and user interfaces. Collaborate with product and design teams, contribute high-quality code, drive technical discussions, identify risks, and deliver production systems using a modern Python stack.

Develop and maintain full-stack TypeScript applications using React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Build intuitive user interfaces, scalable APIs, and secure systems; collaborate on architecture, code reviews, testing, deployments, incident response, and infrastructure improvements. Mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, participate in Agile ceremonies, and support production systems in a remote-first environment.

Build and maintain full-stack software supporting patient-centered healthcare products. Contribute to architecture, technical standards, code reviews, design discussions, and reliable implementation. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, while advocating for privacy, security, and access to care. Mentor engineers, document knowledge, identify technical improvements, and help shape project direction. The role requires backend, database, cloud, and AI development-tool experience in a fully remote environment.

Build full-stack software, backend services, APIs, frontend experiences, and shared integration capabilities supporting AI initiatives across Keeper’s products. Integrate LLMs, agents, and tool-calling workflows into secure production environments while maintaining zero-knowledge principles. Troubleshoot cross-product systems, improve reliability and observability, contribute to architecture and code reviews, automate testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure. Implement SRE practices, monitoring, observability, capacity planning, Kubernetes and Helm deployments, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud security controls. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure compliance, and mentor engineers while improving reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.