Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

As a Software Engineer on the Data side of the AI team at Speechify, you'll manage data ingestion pipelines, extend cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with scientists to enhance data collection for model training, aiming to drive costs down while increasing throughput and quality.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks and exploratory suites for products, APIs, SDKs, AI models, and data platforms. Develops functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, API, browser, load, and reliability tests; creates datasets, evaluation pipelines, dashboards, and CI/CD release gates. Partners across Engineering, Research, Product, Data, and Infrastructure to validate model behavior, data quality, performance, and production readiness. Documents reproducible defects, supports triage, and communicates risks.

Lead design and development of scalable, low-latency Java microservices and distributed systems on cloud platforms. Drive AI-assisted engineering governance, ensure code quality, resiliency, operational stability, and mentor teams while implementing CI/CD, testing, and observability best practices.

Lead an agile engineering team to design, build, test, and operate secure, scalable production systems. Drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted development (prompting, agentic engineering) within the SDLC, provide technical guidance, review code, and ensure responsible AI practices and operational stability in trading and risk engineering contexts.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities, including cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, disconnected deployments, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure as code, observability, upgrades, and incident response. Partner with engineering teams to provide reusable self-service infrastructure primitives across commercial, government, secure, classified, and disconnected environments.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network requirements into computational models, improve solution quality and scalability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability. Responsibilities include managing project priorities, designing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production software. Preferred experience includes numerical optimization, solver development, performance profiling, distributed or cloud computing, and telecommunications or networking.

Build and maintain NetBox Enterprise, an on-premises product suite. Responsibilities include architecting Kubernetes-based high-availability solutions, extending Kubernetes operators, developing lifecycle management tools, building CI/CD pipelines, managing releases, writing Rust and Python, supporting integration testing, documenting deployment practices, and resolving customer deployment and operational issues.

Build and own high-performance UI features for Netflix’s TV application across streaming sticks, smart TVs, and cable boxes. Collaborate with product, design, algorithms, and engineering teams to define experiences, validate product variants through A/B testing, and deliver reliable, testable code. Lead large cross-functional projects while working with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, GraphQL, and proprietary Jest-based automation frameworks.

Design, implement, test, and modernize backend services and integrations (TypeScript/Node.js and C++). Lead large projects, write technical specifications and API contracts, enforce coding standards, coach engineers, and drive legacy-to-modern migrations within online banking and core systems.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, testing, and documenting scalable Node.js/TypeScript services and APIs. Lead projects end-to-end, enforce coding standards, write technical specifications, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers. Champion Agile and CI/CD practices while providing technical thought leadership on backend architecture and data modeling.

Develop and maintain Python backend services, primarily with Flask, while designing scalable architecture and integrating legacy systems. Build AWS solutions using Lambda, Cognito, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB; maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with OpenTofu and Terraform. Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment, contribute to technical decisions and engineering standards, review code, and mentor junior developers.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain robust backend systems using Ruby on Rails, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the real estate platform's performance and user experience.

Lead full‑stack development of scalable, secure services and UI using Java, Python, and React. Build AI/agentic capabilities with Smart SDK, design data/search solutions (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch), drive cloud-native engineering on AWS with Terraform, improve SDLC via AI-assisted tooling, mentor engineers, and deliver operational reliability.

Lead an agile engineering team to design, develop, and operate secure, scalable applications. Provide technical guidance, write and review production code, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, influence product design, and promote firmwide SDLC practices using cloud-native, microservices, and Big Data technologies.

Lead and support reliability, performance, and operational integrity of equities electronic trading systems. Provide hands-on DevOps/SRE production support for FIX connectivity, Linux troubleshooting, Grafana observability, Kafka on AWS, incident triage, root cause analysis, automation via Python and Bash, and cross-team collaboration including investigating C++ components.

Lead technical design and delivery of cloud-native, resilient, and secure infrastructure for the Athena platform. Drive architecture, automation, IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes adoption, CI/CD, operational stability, and team best practices including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Lead full‑stack development of cloud‑native, enterprise-grade applications using Java/Spring and React. Design, build, test, and operate microservices with Oracle and AWS, ensure security and operational stability, mentor teams, promote best practices, and drive technical decisions across the SDLC.

Lead design and implementation of automated, secure, scalable database platform services. Build backend services, APIs, self-service tooling, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines; drive automation, code quality, and technical leadership across global teams.

Lead technical design and deliver full‑stack software solutions. Develop, review, debug, and maintain production code; drive automation and operational stability; champion enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices; evaluate vendor/architectural solutions; lead engineering communities of practice and promote secure, resilient SDLC practices.

Design and implement Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax) and 802.11s mesh networking software for enterprise access points. Develop HMAC components, optimize throughput/latency/airtime, integrate on NXP-based Embedded Linux platforms, maintain hostapd/wpa_supplicant/mac80211, debug with packet captures, and collaborate with RF/firmware/QA teams for product releases.

Responsible for designing and developing firmware and flight software for spacecraft systems, collaborating with engineering teams on robust, reliable software under strict constraints.

Lead technical design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native SaaS solutions. Drive architecture and implementation across frontend and backend stacks, mentor engineers, apply AI/agent workflows and NLP, ensure high availability, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to ship reliable, production-grade systems.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs. Scale storage, queries, and computation for real-time products, consolidate fragmented geospatial solutions, develop customer self-service capabilities, and provide mentorship through code reviews and design leadership. Collaborate across teams and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead projects for the Forms platform, designing and building features across web, mobile, and backend systems while mentoring other engineers and improving platform scalability and reliability.