Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, scale, and operate backend APIs and real-time services powering sportsbook and casino apps. Own features end to end across APIs, mobile, and web, including performance optimization, monitoring, testing, production support, and release cycles. Collaborate with iOS and Android teams, use AI coding agents, write technical documentation, mentor teammates, and resolve client-server issues. The role requires strong distributed systems expertise, API versioning experience, on-call participation, and proficiency with a server framework.

Develop and operate internal Kubernetes-based platforms, infrastructure automation, workflow systems, observability tooling, API gateways, and messaging platforms. Support data, simulation, ML, CI/CD, and LLM workflows; improve reliability, cost efficiency, and platform visibility. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, documentation, and internal user enablement while receiving mentorship and contributing production code.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Own ToolHound’s technical and product roadmap, architecture, code quality, security, data, performance, releases, and AI-native product development. Lead modernization of its mature .NET platform, ship production AI features safely in a multi-tenant environment, improve velocity and reliability, and mentor the engineering team. Partner with the GM, customers, operators, and business stakeholders to prioritize work, communicate clearly, and increase the platform’s enterprise value.

Build and ship core 0-to-1 systems connecting software, hardware, and finance. Responsibilities include designing abstractions over complex data and legacy systems, owning the full product lifecycle, developing production-grade LLM systems for loan underwriting and compliance, and contributing to engineering and product culture. The role requires strong backend and systems thinking, with comfort in full-stack development and UI design.

Leads end-to-end software projects across Cambium’s platform, including data infrastructure, internal tools, and client-facing applications. Designs scalable architecture, writes secure and maintainable code, deploys production features, and helps shape the technical roadmap. Uses AI coding agents extensively, collaborates with product and business teams, resolves technical debt, and mentors engineers through reviews and postmortems.

Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and production support of secure, scalable SaaS software across a public safety platform. Champions AI-native development practices, including coding agents, automated testing, code review, and agent workflows. Mentors engineers, collaborates cross-functionally, improves reliability and performance, manages incident response, and implements secure development practices for sensitive criminal justice data.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable, secure healthcare technology, including real-time data pipelines, distributed systems, microservices, and clinical data integrations. Own products from concept through deployment, optimize performance and infrastructure costs, lead modernization efforts, and build cloud-native solutions using AWS and Kubernetes. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, mentor engineers, communicate technical concepts, and explore AI/ML and real-time analytics applications.

Staff Software Engineer for the Job Seeker Apps team, building user-facing interfaces, backend systems, proactive communications, and AI assistant integrations. Responsibilities include end-to-end systems engineering, collaboration with Product and Decision Science, technical leadership and mentorship, impact measurement, and architecting safe, scalable agentic integrations. The role requires extensive software development experience and may involve ReactJS, TypeScript, data lake technologies, and distributed data processing frameworks.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.

Build scalable, efficient full-stack systems that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes. Collaborate with developers, data scientists, healthcare professionals, product managers, and operations teams to develop features, maintain development practices, write tests, document implementations, and refactor complex distributed systems.

Build and lead development of real-time, cloud-native integration pipelines and Java/Spring Boot microservices on GCP. Design event-driven streaming with Pub/Sub, Kafka, and CDC tools; govern REST APIs and data schemas; connect enterprise databases, supply chain systems, and data lakehouses. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, deployment, code reviews, integration templates, testing, monitoring, and technical leadership.

Leads architecture, development, testing, and deployment of hyperscale distributed storage systems optimized for AI and machine learning workloads. Drives innovations in scalability, performance, security, durability, and efficiency; collaborates with AI and cloud infrastructure teams; mentors engineers; and evaluates emerging technologies for AI-native storage.

Design and build scalable Python applications, APIs, microservices, and AI/LLM workflows using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Develop agentic orchestration capabilities, prototypes, and production systems; perform testing, code reviews, architectural design, troubleshooting, and security-focused engineering. Collaborate remotely in an Agile environment while translating data science outputs into secure, maintainable products.

Build scalable, efficient full-stack systems that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes. Collaborate with developers, data scientists, clinicians, product managers, and operational teams to create new features, maintain development practices, write tests, document implementations, and refactor complex distributed systems.

Lead the design and development of scalable .NET services and APIs for a real-time trading platform. Own systems through production, contribute to architecture and observability, support incident response, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team technical initiatives. Collaborate with product and design while occasionally contributing to React and TypeScript frontend development. Build reliable, high-throughput distributed systems and improve engineering standards, tooling, testing, and operational excellence.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable billing and invoicing systems using C# and PHP. Lead architecture, code reviews, mentoring, CI/CD improvements, monitoring, database optimization, security, and PCI DSS compliance. Use Claude and Cursor in daily development while validating generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability. Collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and support teams to deliver reliable payment-processing services and resolve complex technical issues.

Oversee the development, integration, verification, validation, and certification of human-rated spacecraft flight software for NASA commercial crew, lunar, and deorbit vehicles. Responsibilities include systems engineering, hazard analysis, software architecture assessment, risk mitigation, contractor coordination, flight readiness certification support, and mission operations anomaly troubleshooting. The role interfaces with NASA and prime contractor teams at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Develop scalable Java-based distributed systems for BILL’s Growth team, focusing on customer acquisition, activation, onboarding, and product expansion. Build high-performance SaaS applications using AWS services, SQL and NoSQL databases, Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with feature teams and product managers while applying generative AI and LLM technologies to accelerate engineering workflows.

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.

Build and ship customer-facing digital platform features for Slate’s direct-to-consumer EV brand. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and owning the quality of software components; integrating third-party APIs; collaborating with product and UX teams; solving problems independently; and supporting teammates through knowledge sharing.

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).