Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered B2B SaaS products across frontend, backend, and AI. Own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, ensure maintainability, mentor teammates, and inform roadmap and implementation decisions.

Support certification of Nyx spacecraft flight software through verification and validation, requirements tracing, test planning, safety reviews, and formal standards application. Collaborate with software developers, system engineers, certification bodies, and safety authorities. Maintain functional design baselines, plan integrated mission testing, resolve technical issues, and contribute to software design and testing using C++ and Python.

Build and own the technical roadmap: design AI-first interfaces and APIs, architect scalable ETL pipelines, develop data models for ML features, ship autonomous B2B workflows (PO generation, vendor sync, schedule optimizations), and establish engineering standards, CI/CD, and mentoring.

Leads software quality strategy within Agile Scrum teams. Designs, automates, executes, and reports on functional, integration, performance, usability, security, and accessibility tests. Defines acceptance criteria, evaluates risks, investigates defects, performs root cause analysis, improves testing processes, and supports backend testing of web services, databases, and APIs. Mentors junior quality engineers and collaborates with developers, product owners, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver reliable software.

Develop and maintain full-stack web applications across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include feature delivery, code reviews, debugging, performance optimization, scalable architecture, API and database integration, documentation, and collaboration with product and QA teams. The role uses modern frontend frameworks, backend technologies, cloud services, and relational databases while supporting industrial and energy-sector applications.

Build and scale Supabase Storage across client libraries, CLI, CDN, storage servers, and deployment infrastructure. Responsibilities include improving upload and download performance, asset optimization, edge networking, caching, observability, reliability, APIs, developer tools, and the storage explorer. The role also involves PostgreSQL and distributed-systems performance tuning, infrastructure operations, escalated support resolution, and end-to-end project ownership in an asynchronous, remote, open-source environment.

Lead architecture and write production full-stack code for an AI-powered supply chain platform. Own ABP application architecture, technical design, .NET standards, security, reliability, performance, observability, upgrades, and technology evaluations. Deliver features using C#, ASP.NET Core, Angular, and TypeScript while collaborating with engineering and product leadership. The role requires experience with distributed systems, AWS, CI/CD, secure coding, regulated environments, and eligibility for a US government security clearance.

Owns and develops security-critical authentication software across Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile, and cloud platforms. Responsibilities include Rust-based Windows authentication components, Python Bluetooth services, cryptography, PKI, certificate logon, identity protocols, backend features, protobuf communication, threat modeling, mTLS, release packaging, and cross-platform testing. The role requires deep Windows internals and authentication expertise, applied cryptography knowledge, and strong Rust and Python skills.

Build and architect Clear Street Active, a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on large-scale initiatives while emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, and developer experience.

Architect and build a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on large-scale initiatives, emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, developer experience, and end-user usability.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Lead frontend and full-stack engineering, architect scalable features, integrate APIs and cloud services, optimize rendering and performance, establish engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor developers. Collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams to deliver user-focused software while managing priorities in an ambiguous environment.

Senior .NET Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end software development using Microsoft technologies. Requires extensive experience in SDLC, design principles, technical documentation, web application development with .NET, Agile/SCRUM, Entity Framework, database design, and version control. Familiarity with project tools JIRA, TEMPO, Bitbucket, and Confluence preferred.

Designs and implements Go-based control-plane software for custom AI inference hardware. Responsibilities span system management APIs, Linux services, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, observability, security, firmware updates, distributed systems, and workload management. The role requires hands-on debugging across application, operating system, firmware, and hardware boundaries, plus technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and production ownership. Regular on-site lab work includes server racking, system bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and documentation.

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain full-stack applications spanning frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. Own complex systems, improve reliability and technical debt, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to code reviews and engineering practices. Evaluate AI-assisted development opportunities and collaborate with product teams, stakeholders, and customers to deliver secure, maintainable software capabilities.

Design, build, test, and operate production-grade, secure, and scalable software and services. Partner with customers to translate requirements into technical designs, drive engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability), deliver end-to-end solutions, lead technical workstreams, and apply AI/LLM approaches where appropriate to produce production-ready outcomes.

Architect and deliver complex distributed systems using Azure cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Lead architecture reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and code quality. Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams, and mentor engineers on technical design, development practices, and AI-enabled workflows.

Build Apollo’s AI-powered Builder Studio end to end, including chat-driven app creation, live previews, generated-app runtimes, workflows, integrations, delegated permissions, security, and reliability. The role requires strong full-stack development, production LLM experience, frontend expertise with complex UIs, backend and workflow design, and ownership of an ambiguous 0-to-1 product.

Design, develop, debug, and improve Elastic’s cloud control-plane offerings. The role involves guiding cross-team architecture, leading development best practices, creating technical plans, diagnosing complex failures, prioritizing fixes and features, and collaborating with Support and Elasticsearch engineering teams. The engineer will contribute to reliable, scalable SaaS foundations while providing pragmatic technical leadership across a distributed engineering organization.

Develops low-level embedded software throughout the software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, object-oriented design, coding, unit testing, integration, formal testing, documentation, and delivery. The role requires C/C++ programming, RTOS experience, embedded components such as BSPs, device drivers, or bootloaders, and familiarity with hardware interfaces and communication protocols. The engineer troubleshoots complex technical issues and collaborates across disciplines in a cleared aerospace environment.

Develops and supports embedded software across the full software engineering lifecycle, including requirements analysis, object-oriented design, coding, unit testing, integration, formal testing, documentation, and debugging. Applies software standards, Agile practices, MBSE, and AI prompting to mission-focused applications. Requires collaboration across teams and support for delivery activities, with up to 5% travel to Huntsville, Alabama.

Develop and maintain simulation software for NASA’s Orion spacecraft program. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting logical and mathematical models using C++, Python, and MATLAB/Simulink. The role supports full software development lifecycle activities, hardware-in-the-loop environments, software quality practices, user support, and simulation of hardware functionality, system dynamics, and mission scenarios.

Design, build, operate, and maintain highly available distributed telemetry systems for Grafana Cloud and open-source projects. Deliver features end to end, improve reliability and performance, review code and designs, manage releases, participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations, and collaborate remotely with teammates and customers. Work primarily with Go across Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure and observability systems such as Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.