Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build cloud-native backend services using Golang, deploy in Kubernetes, and lead architecture projects in a startup environment.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

Lead technical direction and execution for Code Plane products (Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI). Translate customer feedback into roadmap, ship agent-focused features, mentor engineers, own architecture and quality, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, and Customer teams to deliver scalable AI-agent developer tools.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Own the architecture and technical direction of conversational AI and voice-ordering systems. Design reliable, low-latency backend services for live drive-thru traffic, lead cross-system integrations with POS and hardware, improve AI evaluation and observability, mentor engineers, and resolve complex production issues involving real-time audio, distributed services, and third-party integrations.

Own the architecture and technical direction of conversational AI and voice-ordering systems. Design reliable, low-latency backend services, POS and hardware integrations, AI evaluation and observability systems, and production monitoring. Lead cross-cutting initiatives, mentor engineers, partner with product and operations, and resolve complex issues involving real-time audio, third-party integrations, and distributed services.

Owns firmware and host software for field-deployed edge devices powering an AI voice drive-thru system. Responsibilities include developing microcontroller firmware, managing real-time full-duplex audio pipelines, designing serial communication and health monitoring, debugging hardware/software integrations, enabling fleet deployment and remote management, and implementing reliable recovery and over-the-air updates.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance. Design scalable systems using domain-driven design and microservices, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance and code reviews in an Agile Scrum environment.

Designs, develops, tests, audits, troubleshoots, and improves scalable software applications for new business initiatives. Owns technical solutions from conception through deployment, works in an Agile environment, mentors engineers, performs code reviews, recommends technology choices, and drives continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders.

Design and maintain Golang backend services, APIs, microservices, automation tools, and Terraform infrastructure modules. Provision and manage cloud resources, troubleshoot application and deployment issues, and improve reliability and performance. Participate across the software development lifecycle, review code and infrastructure configurations, collaborate with technical teams, and communicate project risks. Use AI tools such as Claude, mentor colleagues, and contribute to client-focused technical solutions.

Lead front-end modernization and deliver full-stack features using React, .NET, PostgreSQL, and cloud technologies. Build accessible, performant applications and design systems; extend APIs, optimize SQL, contribute to Kafka pipelines, and improve testing, observability, CI, and security. Use AI coding agents for migrations, refactoring, and test generation while applying strong engineering judgment. Collaborate with product, UX, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver reliable healthcare payment-integrity software.

Design, deploy, and operate large-scale workflow orchestration platforms (Argo/Airflow/hybrid) for simulation, ML training, data pipelines and CI/CD. Build SDKs, abstractions, and self-service tooling; ensure reliability, observability, cost-efficiency, GPU and cross-cluster scheduling on Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem; integrate with storage, streaming, registries, and CI/CD; document best practices and mentor engineers.

Design and build scalable, secure, high-performance systems using Python and AWS. Lead design/code reviews, enforce SDLC best practices, optimize with tools like AWS X-Ray, collaborate with stakeholders across lines of business, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to trade and risk management solutions while leveraging Generative and Agentic AI.

Design and implement advanced dexterous manipulation algorithms for high-DOF humanoid robots, integrate perception-to-control pipelines, develop digital twins in simulation, perform rigorous sim-to-real testing, and collaborate with ML teams to train and deploy models for complex manipulation tasks.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Lead quality assurance and test strategy across Agile teams, drive automation for testing, mentor QA teams, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop new products and improve engineering infrastructure while taking ownership of product deliverables and enhancing technical architecture.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.