Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and scale customer-facing iOS marketplace experiences using Swift and SwiftUI. Implement feature-flagged functionality, write unit and UI tests, collaborate with Product, Design, Android, backend, QA, and senior iOS engineers, and take increasing ownership of reliability and operational health. Use AI tools for coding, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, and reducing repetitive work while critically validating generated outputs.

Designs and develops backend platform software for a multi-tenant SaaS environment using Python, Django, Ember, and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include building testable systems, leading technical design initiatives, troubleshooting defects, collaborating remotely, reviewing code through pull requests, and contributing to team processes. The role also involves AWS-based development, Docker, APIs, SQL, background jobs, CI/CD, authentication, observability, and production debugging.

Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta’s government product line. Design and build scalable compliance capabilities for federal, state, local, and education customers; establish reusable platform patterns; lead multi-quarter initiatives; collaborate with design partners and cross-functional teams; and mentor engineers while raising technical quality and engineering practices.

Leads hands-on modernization of Pearson’s content platform, including large-scale migrations, shared platform services, APIs, AI capabilities, cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and technical roadmaps. Designs and delivers complex systems, writes production code, resolves high-impact incidents, evaluates technologies, and establishes engineering standards. Mentors senior engineers, influences cross-functional stakeholders, and drives initiatives from exploration through launch while balancing scalability, cost, maintainability, and risk.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Forward Financing’s core fintech platform. Design scalable distributed backend systems, guide cross-team initiatives, establish engineering best practices, resolve incidents, and mentor engineers. The role owns the technical roadmap and architectural vision while partnering across teams to improve reliability, observability, code quality, and delivery. Ruby on Rails expertise is required, along with strong communication, influence, agile development experience, and a broad backend or full-stack perspective.

Own and evolve the architecture of Agiloft’s AWS-based cloud services and infrastructure. Lead scalable, secure, reliable, and observable distributed-system design; define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns; and drive modernization, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partner with CloudOps and engineering leadership on reliability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, improve developer experience, and guide long-term platform evolution.

Lead the rearchitecture and development of a cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and partner integrations using modern cloud, DevOps, observability, and security practices. Drive architectural strategy, technical debt reduction, incident response, code quality, compliance, and continuous delivery. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product and architecture teams, evaluate emerging technologies, and own capabilities through project delivery.

Develop and deliver features for large-scale web applications using full-stack technologies across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Microsoft, and cloud stacks. Collaborate in agile Scrum or Kanban teams with architects, QA, product management, and stakeholders. Contribute to CI/CD, DevOps, troubleshooting, performance, security, and continuous improvement while building high-quality software solutions.

Develop and maintain runtime products by researching legacy codebases, backporting CVE security patches, building packages across Linux distributions and architectures, and creating automated testing and AI-assisted security workflows. The role requires deep C/C++ systems expertise, build-toolchain archaeology, cross-compilation experience, and strong ownership of correctness. It also includes customer support for compatibility and upgrade issues.

Develop and maintain Pioneer Desktop, an Electron application connecting sewer inspection trucks with cameras, sensors, and cloud services. Responsibilities include hardware integrations, reliable video recording, offline data storage, cloud synchronization, crash diagnostics, software updates, testing, and release management. The role also involves debugging Windows systems, resolving field issues, collaborating with product and design teams, visiting customers and hardware vendors, and improving operator workflows.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Build core banking activation experiences for administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Design and implement scalable microservices using domain-driven design, emphasizing clean, tested, documented code, error handling, logging, and performance. Contribute to system architecture, advocate for technical decisions, review code, and provide technical guidance to teammates in an Agile Scrum environment.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers. Develop streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations such as Plaid and SendGrid. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance considerations. Apply system design, domain-driven design, and microservice architecture while working in an Agile Scrum environment. Provide architectural guidance, technical recommendations, and code reviews to improve team output.

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for hands-on development, architectural evolution, modernization, and resolution of complex technical problems across a mature education technology product. The role provides cross-team technical leadership, guides architecture and integrations, mentors senior engineers, and applies pragmatic AI-assisted development. Success involves improving system maintainability, enabling product evolution, surfacing technical risks, and strengthening organizational engineering capabilities.

Administer and engineer enterprise observability platforms spanning infrastructure, applications, cloud resources, and telemetry. Lead technical onboarding, monitoring design, alerting, dashboards, automation, integrations, troubleshooting, capacity planning, licensing optimization, upgrades, and migrations. Establish standards and documentation, collaborate with vendors and procurement, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong systems thinking, cloud and production support experience, scripting or infrastructure-as-code expertise, and the ability to resolve complex reliability and performance issues.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.

Owns software systems requirements, architecture, interfaces, traceability, integration, and verification for Axiom Space’s commercial space station program. The role applies MBSE and safety-critical systems engineering practices across the full lifecycle, collaborating with avionics, hardware, FPGA, network, and software teams. Responsibilities include requirements reviews, change control, interface definition, test planning, SIL/HIL integration, safety analysis, and project status reporting.

Build full-stack applications for an AI-driven pipeline risk platform. Primary responsibilities include developing TypeScript and React interfaces, building TypeScript and Python APIs, designing asynchronous analytical workflows, integrating Databricks and Azure services, and enabling customer model deployment. The role also covers testing, security, performance optimization, database development, CI/CD, accessibility, API documentation, and collaboration with design, data science, product, QA, and engineering teams.

Build and maintain full-stack software using TypeScript, Go, and Python, including backend, frontend, and architectural development. Collaborate with developers, designers, product managers, and Department of Defense stakeholders to develop AI-powered solutions, take products from concept to launch, conduct code reviews, and support customers through travel when needed.

Lead architecture and development of significant backend platform features from concept through release. Design scalable distributed systems, write technical proposals, assess business impacts, and ensure dependable performance. Use AI coding assistants while validating code quality and safety, coach engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams. The role requires expert Node.js and TypeScript skills, experience with message queues, and ownership of substantial product areas.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain full-stack software supporting manufacturing and enterprise systems. Build C#/.NET Core backend services and RESTful APIs, optimize SQL Server databases, and contribute to Next.js and React interfaces. Troubleshoot distributed production systems, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains full-stack software supporting manufacturing and enterprise systems. Builds C#/.NET Core backend services, RESTful APIs, SQL Server databases, and React/Next.js interfaces. Troubleshoots distributed production systems, participates in code reviews, documents technical solutions, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable technical implementations.

Build and scale AI-native healthcare products through full-stack applications, backend services, data pipelines, and AI systems. Design, test, deploy, and operate production-ready software, run A/B tests, automate manual workflows, and collaborate with product, operations, and AI/ML teams. The role requires end-to-end ownership of scalable, secure, reliable systems and features, with a focus on performance, data integrity, clean code, and measurable business outcomes.