Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead a cloud-focused full-stack engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable, high-availability web platforms and APIs. Mentor engineers, improve architecture and test coverage, ship features in React/AWS container environments, and drive observability and resilience.

Design, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack web applications in a cloud containerized environment. Improve reliability and observability, ship features, refactor codebase, and collaborate with hardware, product, and design teams while promoting testing and knowledge sharing.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, enterprise-grade SaaS services on Azure. Lead architecture and design, develop APIs and UIs, apply AI-enabled engineering tools, ensure observability, support production incidents, and drive reliability, performance, and CI/CD improvements across teams.

Lead engineering and deliver secure, scalable data and LLM-based systems for a Global KYC and Risk Assessment Data Platform. Define architecture, engineering standards, AI/LLM governance, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices while mentoring teams and ensuring operational stability and observability.

Lead and deliver Java-based microservices and APIs for global equities derivatives trading. Design cloud-native, scalable solutions, integrate AI-assisted development and agentic pipelines, support Java/C#/JavaScript front-ends, participate in code reviews, and mentor teams on secure, high-quality engineering and deployment practices.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Lead technical direction and delivery for the Acquisition & Onboarding full‑stack team. Build and maintain mobile (React Native/native) and web experiences, backend services at scale, and operational tooling. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, ensure reliability/monitoring/on‑call readiness, collaborate with product and design, and improve dev processes, testing, and release practices to impact conversion and retention.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of PET product features; write production full‑stack code; champion testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness; mentor engineers and collaborate with product to shape technical roadmap.

Build and own end-to-end frontend experiences for Coinbase card products across web and mobile. Ship high-scale consumer features, improve payment flow performance and SLOs, reduce latency and CX contacts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, user-focused card functionality.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Build scalable distributed systems for Rula’s Marketplace Health Engine, improving provider utilization, marketplace efficiency, and patient access. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Operations; lead technical strategy across teams; design backend services, APIs, and data-intensive systems; drive projects from discovery through post-launch support; solve complex marketplace problems; mentor engineers; and remain hands-on in software development.

Develop and operate highly scalable backend systems and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining Python HTTP services, working with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, provisioning cloud resources through infrastructure as code, reasoning about distributed systems, and owning software from design through monitoring. The role also focuses on reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, observability, technical roadmaps, and collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders.

Lead design, develop, and deliver secure, high-quality software for wholesale credit risk. Author and review production code, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, automate remediation, improve resiliency, and evaluate vendor/architecture suitability.

Build and own full-stack features, platform primitives, and integrations for Vanta Government Cloud. Design secure APIs and services for authentication, data ingestion, schema evolution, monitoring, and framework mappings. Operate integrations within the GovCloud boundary, including observability, on-call support, incident response, change management, performance improvements, and automated testing. Collaborate with federal subject-matter experts, agencies, vendors, and assessment organizations while using AI responsibly to improve development and operations.

Lead architecture and rollout of scalable platform services and customer-facing APIs. Define API standards, service boundaries, security, reliability, and developer experience; collaborate with data-platform teams; drive RFCs and complex multi-quarter initiatives; mentor engineers; and contribute across the stack using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AI tools.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll enhance the data infrastructure, develop ETL pipelines, maintain data quality, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Join a small AI-native engineering team building and operating Affirm's bank systems. Own end-to-end bank infrastructure, durable workflows, vendor integrations, data platform, CI/CD, monitoring, and examiner-ready documentation. Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, collaborate with Compliance/Risk/Finance, and mentor growing engineering talent.