Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Design and deliver improvements to Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure, write PHP and JavaScript, maintain internet APIs, instrument components, and use caching and persistence technologies. Collaborate across engineering, product, design, client, and volunteer communities; own complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, maintain reliable high-performance software, write tests, address security feedback, and mentor engineers.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable compliance-platform capabilities for government vendors, federal agencies, and SLED organizations. Design new workflows, shared infrastructure, and tagging systems while partnering with engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and early design partners. Translate evolving requirements into durable solutions, lead complex cross-functional projects, and help shape engineering culture in a rapidly scaling environment.

Own the design and implementation of WISEcode’s automated quality engineering ecosystem. Build AI-augmented UI, API, integration, regression, database, performance, and reliability testing frameworks for ASP.NET and Blazor applications. Integrate testing into CI/CD, improve observability and release confidence, investigate failures and race conditions, validate AI/ML outputs, and establish scalable quality standards and metrics across engineering teams.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and development quality of complex Android applications. Mentor engineers, integrate backend services, support offline-first functionality and diverse hardware, oversee CI/CD and releases, and document engineering standards. The role also involves robotics integrations for public safety use cases, including drones and body-worn cameras, while collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Develop and maintain backend applications using .NET, C#, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, and cloud-native technologies. Responsibilities include troubleshooting software issues, optimizing performance and reliability, conducting code reviews, supporting applications, and leading software and process improvements. The role also involves mentoring colleagues, collaborating independently or with teams, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Work with customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver cloud-based solutions. Lead design, identify dependencies, mentor engineers, act as DRI and on-call, and improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance. Contribute to open-source assets and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to produce extensible, maintainable code and scalable solution patterns.

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance and vector search initiatives, designing and implementing new search features, algorithms, data structures, and bug fixes in modern Java. Improve search speed and relevance, contribute to Lucene, collaborate with a globally distributed engineering community, guide projects autonomously, review code, and work with technologies including Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

Design, build, and maintain full‑stack features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (Python, Node.js, or JVM languages). Own end-to-end development, testing, CI, databases, and cloud/distributed systems. Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and pair programming, and work in an agile, remote team.

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for designing and building end-to-end features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (JVM languages, Python/Node.js). Owns code quality, testing, CI, and collaborates in agile teams. Mentors junior engineers, participates in code reviews and pair-programming, and works with cloud, databases, and distributed systems. Remote role with occasional in-person meetups.

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance initiatives, designing and implementing search features, algorithms, data structures, and vector search capabilities. Improve performance, scalability, and relevance; resolve complex bugs; contribute to Lucene; collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source contributors; and provide technical direction. The role requires modern Java development, autonomous project ownership, code review, asynchronous communication, and expertise with search or vector databases at scale.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, storage integrations, observability tools, and infrastructure automation for Kubernetes AI platforms. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage, support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning, and deliver declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows. Architect reliable storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and sovereign infrastructure, including artifact mirrors and PKI/TLS.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.

Lead the design and development of mission-relevant software, build backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and support technical demos.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug ultra low-latency C++ streaming systems and media pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP). Analyze performance across CPU, memory, networking, and scheduling. Integrate streaming software with platform services across Windows, Linux, QNX, and embedded platforms. Define KPIs for networking and streaming quality and troubleshoot across software, OS, platform, and hardware boundaries.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major software products and systems. Design scalable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; drive architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across distributed international teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; drives critical initiatives; and mentors engineers across teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; leads critical initiatives from design through production; improves engineering quality through testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentors engineers across teams.

Design, develop, modify, test, and maintain full-stack software applications. Engineers will understand product areas, codebases, and systems; write high-quality, tested code; analyze data; solve complex problems; collaborate with product and engineering teams; conduct design and code reviews; and mentor junior developers while delivering customer-focused products.

Own and evolve Voltus’s infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes and Nomad workloads, AWS architecture, identity and secrets, stateful systems, observability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and developer tooling. Lead business-critical migrations with minimal downtime, establish reliable deployment and rollback practices, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and build secure infrastructure supporting AI-assisted development.

Lead full-stack growth engineering across eligibility, identity, access, client configuration, and reporting systems. Build Python-based GraphQL and REST APIs, React and React Native experiences, scalable database systems, and secure HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant solutions. Own ambiguous cross-domain technical projects, write RFCs, coordinate roadmap delivery, mentor engineers, contribute to engineering strategy, and participate in on-call operations and remediation.

Design, develop, deploy, and support complex OneStream software features and services. Own end-to-end delivery, APIs, SDKs, data contracts, performance, scalability, reliability, and production quality. Lead technical design discussions and code reviews, mentor engineers, improve CI/CD and testing practices, and collaborate cross-functionally. Build user interfaces with modern frameworks, resolve production issues, and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools while ensuring correctness, security, and architectural alignment.

Build and operate accessible, high-performance member-facing web applications using a front-end-first full-stack approach. Contribute to APIs, backend services, data flows, integrations, frontend architecture, testing, observability, and performance improvements. Own projects from concept through production, collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Clinical teams, improve developer experience, support AI-assisted coding practices, participate in technical reviews and incident follow-up, and mentor engineers.

Develop and maintain software in an agile, test-driven environment using pair programming. Lead technical decisions involving application and data model design, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product and design, and ensure application stability and performance. Participate in on-call support and improve system reliability. Use AI developer tools to accelerate development and improve code quality.

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, optimize performance, ensure security compliance, and mentor junior engineers in a collaborative environment.