Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering audio data sources, developing reliable ingestion and processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists on training datasets. The role requires ownership of engineering projects, strong backend development, production systems experience, and independent problem-solving in an ambiguous environment.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that acquire, process, and optimize audio datasets for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, improving data quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement. The role requires strong backend engineering, production systems experience, and independent problem-solving in a distributed environment.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering audio data sources, developing reliable data-processing systems, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement, with emphasis on backend development, production systems, data acquisition, and scalable infrastructure.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines for AI model training, including discovering audio data sources, optimizing processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. Own engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement while working independently in an ambiguous environment.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable processing systems, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires strong backend engineering, production systems experience, Python and Bash proficiency, and independent ownership of projects. Experience with web crawling, distributed processing, GCP, Terraform, machine-learning datasets, or audio processing is advantageous.

Build scalable data pipelines and processing systems for AI model training at petabyte scale. Responsibilities include discovering audio data sources, improving dataset quality and processing efficiency, optimizing throughput and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. The role involves discovering data sources, optimizing data processing for quality, throughput, and cost, partnering with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and scale full-stack software for employer and Employee Assistance Program products, including employer portals, patient and provider workflows, eligibility, authorization, and billing. Lead technical projects, design secure distributed systems, mentor engineers, contribute to engineering culture, and use modern technologies and AI-assisted development tools. Collaborate cross-functionally to expand access to mental healthcare.

Build and maintain high-performance, resilient SDKs across multiple programming languages and platforms. Develop features, improve reliability, collaborate with engineering and product teams, maintain open-source repositories, and influence technical and product decisions. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, polyglot development ability, library-building experience, production-quality coding, and expertise in unit, integration, load testing, and benchmarking.

Build, test, review, deploy, monitor, debug, and maintain full-stack software used in K-12 classrooms. Work primarily with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS while improving complex codebases and service design. Participate in incident response, refactoring, code reviews, pairing, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and education experts. Use AI tools thoughtfully and prioritize reliable, accessible, and equitable learning experiences.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Develop and debug production-grade full-stack applications across front-end and back-end systems. Build features, APIs, databases, and data models; troubleshoot end-to-end issues; analyze unfamiliar codebases; translate implementations across programming languages; and review AI-generated and developer-written code for correctness, security, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Develop firmware, backend systems, and tooling for cellular IoT devices. Responsibilities include C development for STM32 microcontrollers, embedded AI integration, cellular communication, low-power optimization, device debugging and validation, and backend development with Python and Ruby on Rails. The role collaborates with hardware, electronics, and manufacturing teams and requires independently leading complex development initiatives.

Builds and maintains custom software applications using .NET, Java, and JavaScript technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and developing web-based and client-server systems. The role handles complex technical projects autonomously, may provide technical consultation and team leadership, and requires strong collaboration and communication skills. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Builds and maintains custom software applications, performing design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and technical consultation. Works autonomously on advanced projects, may lead work groups, and follows coding standards and technical designs. The role supports web-based and client-server systems and requires strong collaboration and communication. Up to 15% travel is expected.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Develop and lead frontend platform engineering for native and hybrid mobile applications. Build reusable, well-tested Android and iOS SDK components, contribute to architecture and system design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, own customer-facing deliverables, and identify product improvements while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Develop and maintain scalable SaaS solutions for financial reporting and capital markets customers. Responsibilities include full-stack development, system design, testing, monitoring, performance optimization, security, technical debt reduction, and collaboration with product managers, developers, and SRE teams. The role requires building reliable, secure, maintainable data-driven applications and contributing across the software development lifecycle.

Build and operate backend services for stablecoin payments, including deposits, withdrawals, on/off ramps, wallets, and virtual accounts. Integrate crypto partners with existing banking, ledger, and payment systems while developing KYB and compliance workflows. Own projects from design through production, ensure reliable money movement, influence technical direction, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.

Build and ship end-to-end features across consumer marketplace and business administration products. Develop TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Rails, and related services while using AI coding agents. Own software quality through design, testing, observability, telemetry, and gradual rollouts. Partner with Product, Design, AI Platform, and Data teams; modernize legacy systems, develop AI-powered features, participate in on-call, mentor engineers, and improve team workflows.