Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Lead design and delivery of backend-focused full-stack features for the Business Platform. Build APIs, data models, and reliable parsers, ensure secure resilient systems, mentor engineers, drive estimates and quality, collaborate with Growth on data-driven features, and integrate AI tooling into development workflows.

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.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Saga, Deepgram's voice OS. Develop backend services (Node.js, Socket.IO, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify), frontend interfaces (TypeScript, React, Next.js), and scalable REST/GraphQL APIs. Participate in architecture, code reviews, performance optimization, and translate product requirements into iterative deliverables.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

Design and build end-to-end web and AI-powered dashboard features, scale cross-platform full-stack infrastructure, standardize product patterns, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and collaborate with product and design to improve user workflows and AI adoption.

Senior fullstack engineer to build and scale Brigit's consumer finance platform. Own end-to-end features across frontend (React/React Native/TypeScript) and backend (Java/REST/SQL), optimize database and APIs for high scale, integrate 3rd-party services, implement risk and transaction algorithms, improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and internal tooling to support millions of users.

Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and define technical strategy for new products. Design and ship full‑stack, AI‑driven features end‑to‑end, build scalable data ingestion and API systems, partner with product/design/customer teams to translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality and standards across the organization.

Serve as the senior software development SME while performing full-stack Java web development and O&M activities. Guide developer teams, prioritize work, coordinate technical meetings, resolve issues, optimize processes, analyze requirements, estimate effort, review code, conduct testing, troubleshoot environments, create technical documentation, and implement software updates. The role requires extensive J2EE experience, SPA development, DevOps and CI/CD expertise, and active Public Trust/MBI clearance supporting an IRS Criminal Investigation system.

Develop and own full-stack web features from design through deployment, monitoring, and optimization. Build APIs, backend services, responsive user experiences, SQL queries, and relational database schemas. Modernize legacy systems, troubleshoot performance issues, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and design teams in an agile continuous-delivery environment. The role emphasizes secure, maintainable, scalable code, technical ownership, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Develop robotics software for laboratory automation systems, focusing on precise motion control, liquid handling, sample transport, real-time perception, sensor fusion, computer vision, and calibration. Optimize embedded and real-time performance, conduct hardware-in-the-loop testing, and implement CI/CD validation. Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI teams to deliver safe, reliable autonomous instrument behaviors from concept through verification.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for backend systems supporting experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization. Design and operate high-throughput distributed systems and APIs, build data infrastructure, and productionize AI/ML capabilities. Drive complex multi-team initiatives, influence engineering strategy, establish technical standards and operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers. Partner with product, data science, ML, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Join Archy as a Senior Platform Software Engineer to enhance dental practice management through a scalable SaaS solution, focusing on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and AI integration.

Leads the Bioinformatics Software Engineering team and owns engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, modernization, and production support for clinical genomics platforms. Oversees software engineers, bioinformatics workflows, data integration, automation, quality systems, release governance, reliability, and regulatory compliance. Partners with clinical, laboratory, scientific, quality, product, operations, and executive stakeholders to convert research methods into validated production workflows. Guides AI-enabled engineering initiatives while ensuring privacy, traceability, clinical-grade quality, and operational resilience.

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will lead software architecture and implementation, mentor team members, and integrate complex systems for minerals supply chain management.

Design, develop, test, and maintain software for enterprise and embedded systems using C/C++, Python, and LabVIEW. Lead projects, mentor junior engineers, troubleshoot complex defects, create technical documentation, support deployments, and ensure compliance with AS9100/ISO processes.

The Staff Software Engineer will shape technical direction, build developer platforms, and design AI agents, enhancing developer productivity and collaboration across teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build a cutting-edge identity search platform and implement AI systems for defense applications, working closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and support national security.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll create and conduct automated tests, resolve technical issues, and collaborate with development teams to ensure software quality.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Lead frontend development using React and TypeScript to design scalable frontend architecture, components, and developer workflows. Own feature delivery from concept to launch, improve CI/CD and testing, collaborate with backend on APIs, evaluate new technologies, and mentor other engineers while ensuring performance, accessibility, and reliability across web surfaces.

Lead architecture and implementation for a secure distributed data platform runtime. Design Go-based concurrency, subprocess supervision, inter-service protocols, distributed persistence, and resilient processing pipelines. Debug complex cross-process and network issues, define testing standards, conduct end-to-end integration and resilience testing, participate in on-call rotations, and lead incident post-mortems. Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver production-ready capabilities. Requires up to 25% international travel to the Middle East.