Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads architecture and development of complex backend services for a commercial health plan platform. Designs .NET Core and Azure systems, develops claims, eligibility, and benefits functionality, manages healthcare data integrations, and owns cloud infrastructure and CI/CD architecture. Provides technical leadership through code reviews, testing standards, mentoring, and architecture decisions while ensuring performance, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Leads backend architecture and technical direction for the Node.js sub-team while developing complex Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js services. Designs APIs, authentication, data models, caching, messaging, and resilient systems; oversees performance, testing, CI/CD, security, and HIPAA compliance. Mentors engineers, leads code reviews, establishes coding standards, and collaborates with frontend and mobile teams. The role is remote for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones, with an in-person Dallas interview required.

Develop and support scalable Python services, APIs, and event-driven systems for digital freight pricing and booking. Build experimentation frameworks, AI-assisted pricing harnesses, validation guardrails, real-time platforms, and machine-learning integrations. Lead architecture decisions, ensure security and reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, operations, revenue management, data science, and engineering teams.

Leads full-stack software engineering for market risk, model risk, and treasury technology. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, debugging, and operating secure, scalable applications; providing technical direction; governing AI-assisted engineering practices; validating AI outputs for security and correctness; improving SDLC automation; and serving as a subject matter expert across engineering teams.

Lead platform and infrastructure architecture for scalable AI workloads. Design resilient distributed systems, foundational platform services, and cloud environments; solve complex infrastructure challenges; mentor junior engineers; and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to improve reliability, performance, developer experience, and operational efficiency.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Build and scale high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests, forwards, and computes on billions of behavioral events in real time. Own projects end to end, solve customer scaling challenges, and influence the technical roadmap. The role focuses on distributed systems capable of processing millions of messages per second with very low latency, supporting real-time personalization and AI-driven marketing products.

Build enterprise control-plane products for managing Hightouch deployments at scale. Responsibilities include developing roles, permissions, and access control; creating change-management tools for evolving data models and warehouses; and helping customers understand and optimize warehouse performance and costs. The role requires backend and distributed-systems architecture, asynchronous workflows, scalability, reliability, product thinking, and engagement with product specifications.

Design, build, and optimize distributed systems powering large-scale data synchronization. Responsibilities include improving sync speed, developing real-time streaming capabilities, scaling high-volume and low-latency systems, troubleshooting customer scaling challenges, and supporting multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, customer collaboration, system architecture, and reliability improvements.

Develop backend systems for Hightouch’s Customer Studio product, focusing on data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI workflows. Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable distributed systems while contributing to product specifications and customer-focused solutions. The role requires strong product sense and the ability to architect data-processing features end to end.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workers, shared libraries, and cloud-native runtime infrastructure for Alteryx Cloud orchestration and job execution. Develop asynchronous, event-driven, distributed systems with queues, persistence, retries, and failure recovery. Improve reliability through observability, testing, deployment tooling, and incident follow-up while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.

Build and operate site reliability engineering practices for regulated, cloud-based production environments. Responsibilities include observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and cloud operations, disaster recovery exercises, compliant deployments, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements. The role partners with engineering, product, laboratory, compliance, and quality teams while mentoring peers and helping establish the organization’s SRE culture.

Leads software quality strategy, automation architecture, testing standards, and quality gates across multiple delivery streams. Owns testing for high-risk specifications, develops complex UI and API automation, validates SQL data and integrations, and performs escaped-defect root-cause analysis. Partners with engineering, product, DevOps, and architecture teams to improve release readiness and shift-left quality. Mentors quality engineers and guides shared automation framework direction without direct people management.

Tests software specifications from refinement through release, shaping acceptance criteria, writing test plans, executing manual, exploratory, regression, functional, UI, and API tests, and maintaining automated coverage. Owns defect tracking and resolution, contributes to root-cause analysis and escaped-defect reduction, and supports release-readiness decisions. Collaborates with product, development, architecture, and design teams in an Agile environment.

Lead design, implementation, and deployment of core platform tooling enabling secure, cloud-native application delivery. Integrate with defense systems, own architecture, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, maintain documentation, and participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation.

Build and scale Neuroscale’s backend platform for AI-powered recruiting workflows. Responsibilities include developing Python/FastAPI REST APIs, designing high-throughput systems, managing PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Celery, and Temporal infrastructure, deploying services on AWS, maintaining containerized CI/CD pipelines, and supporting integrations, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows. The role owns architecture and reliability decisions, mentors engineers, and collaborates with AI, product, and frontend teams in a high-ownership startup environment.

Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience systems, including CI/CD platforms, deployment safeguards, observability, automated response workflows, and multi-agent orchestration. Reduce developer toil and technical debt while improving software delivery speed, safety, reliability, and production quality. Partner with engineering teams to adopt AI-native delivery practices and convert emerging capabilities into scalable internal platforms.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Designs and maintains automated and manual testing strategies, test suites, and test plans. Identifies and tracks defects, performs API, load, and performance testing, and contributes to feature development and bug fixes. Provides testing guidance, participates in code reviews and planning, supports release quality decisions, and promotes software quality across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and own production-grade platform subsystems for Stacklok Enterprise, writing Go software that runs on customer Kubernetes environments. Collaborate with leadership, mentor engineers, support customer onboarding and troubleshooting, contribute to the open-source ToolHive project, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role also involves improving engineering workflows through AI-assisted development and owning platform areas from design through ongoing production operations.

Develop and support full-stack SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer applications throughout the software development lifecycle. Design scalable distributed systems using Microsoft technologies and Azure, write secure and high-quality code, troubleshoot issues, apply AI-assisted development practices, contribute to architecture and engineering culture, collaborate with business teams, and mentor software engineers.

Develop and certify flight software for NASA’s lunar base, vehicles, and assets. Responsibilities include software requirements and interface definition, design, development, systems engineering, integration, testing, verification, performance analysis, and avionics test-bed integration. The engineer will collaborate with NASA programs and contractors while following Johnson Space Center software processes. The role requires C and Linux expertise, full software lifecycle experience, and strong communication and teamwork skills.