Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and operate SpiceDB and AuthZed’s open-source authorization ecosystem. Design, implement, test, deploy, and optimize distributed systems involving databases, cloud infrastructure, query planning, scalability, reliability, and performance. Participate in production operations and on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with users and contributors, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical documentation and industry discussions.

Design, build, and operate scalable APIs and event-driven backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. Develop infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot production systems, and participate in on-call support. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, API and event standards, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team guidance. Help improve engineering quality, reliability, scalability, development tooling, and adoption of AI-assisted development practices.

Develop and lead implementation of mathematical optimization models for supply chain applications. Investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, translate real-world problems into software, and design comprehensive testing strategies. Build robust C++ software, automated functional, regression, and performance tests, and collaborate with agile teams. Apply AI and other tools to accelerate development while maintaining architectural consistency, security, and code quality. Review AI-generated code for correctness, integration risks, and edge cases.

Develop and maintain automated testing tools and frameworks for complex healthcare software. Create test plans, execute white-box, black-box, UI, API, and performance testing, identify defects and testing gaps, improve CI/CD processes, and collaborate with product managers and developers to support high-quality releases. The role also involves debugging code, participating in demos, and working with distributed teams in a remote environment.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, leads sprint teams, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role emphasizes backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, databases, containerization, DevSecOps, technical strategy, and delivering secure, maintainable, high-quality software.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex software test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and performance tests. Integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyzes test results, enforces coding standards, reviews code, troubleshoots issues, and mentors junior engineers. Collaborates cross-functionally to support quality releases and develops reusable testing solutions using modern programming languages, cloud platforms, containerization, API testing, and automation technologies.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, scalable code; translate requirements into robust designs; lead design and code reviews; guide sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes software quality, security, compliance, maintainability, technical strategy, and delivery of new features across applications.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Leads architecture and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with product managers and stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and technical strategy experience.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing and developing complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include coding, system design, code and design reviews, roadmap delivery, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy, quality, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires extensive software engineering experience, multi-team leadership, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency with modern programming languages, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, APIs, messaging, and DevSecOps.

Develop and support customized Acumatica ERP solutions using the Cloud xRP Platform, C#/.NET, T-SQL, APIs, workflows, dashboards, and reports. Translate business needs into technical specifications, build integrations, conduct testing, troubleshoot issues, document solutions, and collaborate with clients, analysts, project managers, and technical teams. The role also provides technical guidance, manages multiple assignments, and supports continuous improvement.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Babylist, you will develop systems for a high-volume marketplace, collaborating on advertising, commerce features, and infrastructure while leading projects and improving processes with AI-driven methodologies.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure for Roadie’s logistics platform. Identify performance bottlenecks, improve reliability, collaborate with Product, Data Science, and engineering teams, contribute to code reviews and technical practices, and own projects from concept through production.

Develop scalable, secure, performant web applications and data pipelines for healthcare technology. Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps, use Agile practices, improve observability and reliability, and mentor junior engineers through coaching and code reviews. Responsibilities include database querying, technical decision-making, API development, data ingestion, cloud technologies, containerization, CI/CD, and handling sensitive data.

Develop productionized machine learning workflows, cloud infrastructure, distributed data-processing pipelines, and a multi-tenant data lake for autonomous-driving AI. Build internal APIs, CI/CD processes, and developer productivity tools while collaborating with research engineers. The role requires strong software engineering, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, networking, and data infrastructure expertise.

Develop and maintain web and AI-based enterprise applications through design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews. Integrate AI-assisted and agentic development tools into engineering workflows, manage context and harness engineering, and mentor teammates on responsible AI use. Collaborate across teams, lead projects and design efforts, improve processes and technology choices, and build secure, scalable services using modern backend stacks, REST APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and CI practices.

Build and deliver full-stack features for a web-based broker platform, collaborate with product and design, manage technical debt, shape architecture for scalability, participate in code reviews, and adopt AI-powered developer tools.

Contract software engineer to design and implement C++ (C++11) libraries and APIs within an existing framework. Work involves high-performance and parallel programming (MPI/OpenMP), Linux-based development, performance-aware coding, and collaborating with a team to extend and integrate software designs. Seismic/geoscience experience and open-source contributions are a plus.

Develop, enhance, and support Windows desktop upstream scientific business applications. Collaborate with engineers and geoscientists, troubleshoot global client issues, apply OOP patterns, write testable code, and participate in UI and web application development.

Design and implement high-performance C++ (C++11) libraries and APIs using STL, Boost, and Qt on Linux. Optimize software for hardware performance and HPC (MPI/OpenMP), extend and integrate with existing internal frameworks, follow prescribed designs, and collaborate within an engineering team. Seismic/geoscience and open-source experience are a plus.

Design, build, test, and maintain low-latency, high-throughput trading services on an Aeron-based platform. Expand trading protocol features, migrate workflows to the new stack, optimize performance and scalability, support production reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while using AI-assisted development tools.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

Develop and maintain high-volume, mission-critical enterprise web applications using C#/.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and SQL Server. Responsibilities include full lifecycle development, architecture and design participation, troubleshooting, performance and scalability improvements, AI-assisted workflow development, Agile collaboration, technical mentoring, and supporting multi-tier systems.

Lead end-to-end design, development, deployment, testing, and production support of enterprise web applications. Build scalable client/server architectures, ensure security and data governance, mentor team members, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, and own timely delivery and quality of solutions. Analyze data patterns and support reporting and selection workflows.

Own end-to-end full-stack features for client- and team-facing servicing applications. Design and implement front-end (Next.js/React) and back-end (.NET/C# with NestJS GraphQL), deploy and operate on AWS/EKS, use AI-assisted development workflows, collaborate with cross-functional and distributed teams, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotation for production reliability.

Build and maintain full-stack systems for a global monitoring application supporting federal partners and satellite data access. Responsibilities include designing scalable backend services and frontend applications, improving architecture and infrastructure, integrating complex customer requirements, and owning mission-system quality and availability. The role requires collaboration across teams throughout the engineering lifecycle and experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, geospatial data, and complex integrations.