Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and build platforms for new products, develop generative AI features, ensure system reliability, and foster a collaborative culture in a startup environment.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservice environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, GenAI agents, RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector databases, and LLMOps practices. Collaborate across teams, optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, participate in code reviews, and create responsive user interfaces.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.

Drive the Continuous Integration team, ensuring build systems' reliability and scalability, and mentor CI engineers while improving developer productivity through automation and tooling.

Lead technical design, build, and operate scalable, secure healthcare integration systems. Drive architecture, event-driven distributed systems, APIs, observability, IaC, CI/CD, incident response, cross-functional delivery, and mentor engineering teams.

Provide technical leadership to design, develop, integrate, and support enterprise customer-data solutions using Salesforce Data Cloud and related cloud, API, and streaming technologies. Mentor junior engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, perform root cause analysis, and document solutions across front-end, back-end, and data layers.

Develop and maintain spacecraft flight software across the full lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, integration with HIL and flight hardware. Build tools and simulations, perform subsystem and platform-level tests, support anomaly resolution, systems modeling, and proposal efforts while collaborating with manufacturing and customers.

Senior backend engineer responsible for setting technical direction, designing scalable distributed systems, building customer-facing web applications, mentoring engineers, and applying machine learning to large-scale healthcare data. The role requires Java, Scala, or Rust expertise, cloud systems experience, technical design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and adoption of agentic engineering practices.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Design, build, and maintain Node.js/TypeScript backend services; optimize for speed and scalability; collaborate with frontend and product designers; write clean documented code; run performance tests; ensure stability, compliance, and production readiness.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

Responsible for designing and implementing authentication features in Go and TypeScript, enhancing Auth architecture, and collaborating with teams to improve user experience.

Design, build, and operate multi-tenant elastic storage control-plane services. Ensure high availability and performance, run observability and on-call practices, lead complex projects, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to scaling services handling petabytes of data.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead hands-on full-stack development for Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React applications. Shape technical direction, design reliable APIs and data flows, optimize relational database performance, and deliver responsive front-end experiences. Lead projects end to end, mentor engineers, review and refactor code, collaborate cross-functionally, and explore AI-assisted engineering and LLM automation while protecting sensitive healthcare data.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.