Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable systems, lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve existing platforms using PHP, Node.JS, and AWS.

Design and build scalable backend components and indexing pipelines for semantic and hybrid retrieval, build retrieval orchestration and knowledge-graph services, improve retrieval quality via evaluation and observability, design APIs, and optimize latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and security for large-scale AI inference and retrieval workloads.

Lead architecture and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production. Design scalable, secure, resilient distributed systems and integration-heavy platforms involving APIs, identity systems, hardware, and external data sources. Drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable 0-to-1 products for schools.

Owns test automation and quality efforts for major product areas, including architecting automation frameworks, developing API, UI, and integration tests, and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines. Leads test strategy, risk analysis, debugging, quality improvements, and release planning. Mentors junior SDETs, reviews test code, analyzes coverage, maintains quality metrics, and drives cross-functional adoption of testing best practices.

Define and lead an enterprise-level test automation strategy across various layers, focusing on scaling automation frameworks, improving quality, and mentoring engineers. Collaborate on testing AI systems, enhancing CI/CD processes, and reducing flakiness in automation.

Provides cross-team technical leadership by architecting scalable systems, leading design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, shipping production code, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and translating business priorities into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on full-stack software development, AI-paired delivery, strong communication, and influence without formal authority.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement scalable data systems, collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure data integrity.

Leads a small engineering pod building and operating Humana’s NBA orchestration platform. Designs durable Temporal workflows, Node.js/TypeScript services, Kafka event pipelines, transactional outbox processing, activation integrations, acknowledgment and reconciliation workflows, and distributed-systems reliability controls. Provides hands-on coding, architecture leadership, observability, operational support, cross-team coordination, mentoring, and delivery accountability across the member action lifecycle.

Leads cross-team software delivery and technical direction across Alkami’s digital banking platform. Designs scalable architectures, secure APIs, microservices, integrations, and data contracts; writes and reviews production code; improves reliability, performance, observability, testing, and CI/CD; manages technical dependencies and tradeoffs; mentors engineers; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; and partners with product, security, architecture, data, and site reliability teams.

Lead full-stack cloud engineering for SteelSeries’ gaming web and cloud platforms. Build scalable, reliable, high-availability services and user interfaces; evaluate and improve architecture; define APIs connecting hardware, applications, and cloud services; guide platform roadmaps; mentor engineers; promote strong testing, documentation, observability, resilience, and engineering best practices.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack cloud systems and web experiences for gamers. Design back-end and user-interface architectures, ship platform features, improve reliability and observability, and drive refactoring and technology adoption. Collaborate with hardware, software, design, and product teams while promoting testing, documentation, clean code, and knowledge sharing.

Lead design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency programmatic bidding systems. Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy real-time inference, optimize distributed microservices, run experiments and quantitative analysis, and partner with product to ship scalable features. Foster operational excellence, mentor engineers, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Architects and develops secure, high-performance distributed applications, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines on AWS. Leads application architecture, cloud infrastructure, data governance, testing automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical modernization. Coordinates complex project lifecycles, manages risks and schedules, advises management, resolves cross-functional technology issues, documents systems, and mentors junior engineers in a financial services environment.

Build and maintain full-stack software products across frontend, backend, data, and AI layers. Own product architecture, deployment, observability, reliability, and maintenance; establish unified data models, secure access controls, AI guardrails, and engineering standards. Collaborate directly with non-engineering users to create self-service workflows and translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions. Ship production LLM-powered systems and support governed data transformation, quality, lineage, and testing.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain accounting software for transaction categorization, revenue recognition, and accurate financial reporting. Own projects end to end, create technical designs and rollout plans, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, investigate production issues, improve reliability, and mentor teammates. The role involves working with typed Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Terraform, AWS, and PostgreSQL in a remote environment.

Lead ambiguous, multi-team software projects for core accounting systems. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, build and deploy reliable software, review technical specifications, investigate production issues, and improve system reliability. Collaborate with product and cross-functional stakeholders, mentor and sponsor engineers, and maintain high standards for clean, tested code. The role focuses on typed Python backend services, financial systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and data platforms. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, build CI/CD pipelines, and translate business needs into developer-ready stories.

Lead platform reliability: define SLOs/error budgets, own observability and deploy pipelines, harden integrations with dental systems, operate LLM-driven workflows safely, build incident practices, and raise engineering reliability across the company.

Design and implement automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for embedded hardware and software. Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests. Build and maintain R&D and production test environments, collaborate to debug firmware and hardware, define testability in design reviews, support manufacturing partners, and enable customers onsite (10-20% travel).

Lead technical delivery of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, guiding design, development, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud modernization. Provide hands-on .NET development, incident resolution, operational readiness, and coach engineering teams while ensuring security, retention, and governance for content services.

Lead implementation of software safety programs for underwater robotic/autonomous vehicles per MIL-STD-882. Produce safety plans and assessments, perform hazard analyses, track coverage metrics, catalog safety artifacts, review software independently, and present findings at reviews and customer meetings. Coordinate across programs and support demanding schedules with occasional travel.

The role involves building decision science libraries and tools for mineral exploration, collaborating with teams to improve decision-making processes.

Improve performance and scalability of web applications by identifying and resolving front-end and back-end bottlenecks. Optimize load times, API responses, and database queries; develop scalable features across the stack, monitor performance, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.