Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Own Alkira’s global platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, shared databases and storage, service lifecycle, disaster recovery, Terraform modules, observability, and production tooling in Go or Python. Drive architectural decisions, cost reduction, reliability, security, and multi-team platform adoption while mentoring engineers and participating in on-call support.

Design and build shared backend services, APIs, distributed primitives, and developer tooling used by engineering teams. Own complex platform capabilities from architecture through production support, troubleshoot Linux-based environments, improve scalability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations. Mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance while developing cloud-native microservices with Golang, gRPC, and Protobuf.

Develops, tests, documents, maintains, and enhances software solutions using established design principles and development practices. The role addresses defects, security vulnerabilities, and performance improvements; participates in requirements analysis, planning, and user story development; documents standards and changes; and collaborates with and mentors software engineers. Work involves .NET technologies, source control, software development lifecycle practices, and potentially Azure or AWS cloud development.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Lead technical direction and multi-quarter delivery for a platform modernization effort. Architect TypeScript, Java, PHP, and cloud systems; guide monolith decomposition, distributed services, databases, observability, security, and operational excellence. Mentor engineers, coordinate stakeholders, establish engineering standards, and lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted development across the organization.

Staff Software Engineer leading hands-on full-stack development across C#/.NET services, Angular interfaces, databases, and AWS-hosted applications. Builds healthcare data integrations using HL7, FHIR, and X12 EDI; modernizes legacy systems; improves performance; applies secure coding and HIPAA practices; supports production incidents; reviews code; mentors engineers; and collaborates with product and QA teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a company-wide data lakehouse platform. Build platform-as-product components (SDKs, CLIs, control planes), optimize distributed compute/storage, prototype performance R&D, ensure compliance-by-design (lineage, PII masking, access control), enable real-time AI data ingestion, drive engineering standards, and mentor cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and workflow systems supporting healthcare claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, legal datasets, and transactional data while developing fault-tolerant Temporal workflows. Maintain AWS infrastructure and secure deployment pipelines using Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and related technologies. Collaborate with product, business, and data science teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance systems in a regulated startup environment.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Build and modernize Carrum Health’s data platform by developing Python and SQL pipelines, AWS services, Terraform infrastructure, dbt transformations, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Automate carrier integrations, reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and support Databricks adoption. Extend AI-assisted ingestion and classification using Bedrock and collaborate across engineering, analytics, data science, and client-facing teams. The role includes production ownership, incident response, technical documentation, and healthcare data platform development.

Build reusable interactive front-end components for a browser-based product, focusing on graphics rendering, performance, and engaging user experiences. Own features from concept through release, collaborate with product, design, and content teams, and maintain clean code that supports both human developers and AI tools. The role requires solving demanding browser-rendering challenges and designing clear APIs for people and automated systems.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Own and evolve patient-facing clinical application surfaces, including a React widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Lead full-stack architecture, AI application integrations, encounter data flows, internal tooling, versioned shared components, and operational reliability. Partner with AI engineers on LLM-enabled workflows, maintain dependencies, protect consumers from breaking changes, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires durable ownership of rapidly built systems and delivery of critical healthcare technology.

Build and maintain developer-facing tools and APIs for MongoDB Atlas and Compass. Work full-stack on customer-facing UIs and backend services, design scalable, highly available web applications, collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot distributed systems, and improve performance and developer experience.

Lead full-stack software development across frontend and backend systems, delivering user-facing healthcare features from concept through iteration. Design APIs and application architecture, write technical specifications, improve testing and CI practices, collaborate with product, AI/ML, clinical, and UX teams, and guide cross-team technical decisions. The role involves React, Python, cloud infrastructure, databases, asynchronous workflows, and healthcare data technologies.

Build and evolve scalable systems that capture, ingest, and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams from telephony and meeting platforms. Design distributed media pipelines optimized for reliability, performance, and low latency; provide technical leadership and mentorship; solve complex systems problems; implement testing and quality practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; and maintain security and compliance standards.

Build and ship product features incorporating machine intelligence and large language models. Architect scalable AI-powered functionality, conversational agent experiences, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with subject-matter experts and designers, make pragmatic technical decisions, and mentor teammates on data and AI practices. The role requires hands-on server-side web development, flexible scripting skills, strong system design judgment, and experience delivering AI-enabled products in a startup environment.