Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Leads architecture, hands-on software development, deployment, and production issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, engineering, product, and customer success teams to prioritize strategic programs, improve customer value, share technical best practices, and remove production blockers.

Provides technical leadership for Azure cloud-scale distributed data platforms processing network telemetry and operational data. Defines architecture and long-term technical strategy, leads streaming and batch system design, resolves complex scalability and reliability challenges, oversees production readiness and continuous improvement, and influences cross-team technical investments. Partners across Azure Networking, conducts design reviews, establishes reusable engineering patterns, improves observability and quality, and mentors engineers and technical leaders.

Leads architecture, development, and operation of Python-based AWS backend and IoT services. Designs Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, databases, device communication, and infrastructure as code. Provides hands-on technical leadership through coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional planning, security practices, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and roadmap development.

Build and architect AI-powered software features that analyze contracts and fund documents, extract structured data, and automate legal workflows. Set technical direction, drive ambiguous initiatives from conception through production, improve engineering quality and tooling, and collaborate with product and design. Evaluate LLM systems, assess failure modes, and make strategic decisions about AI applications while mentoring and elevating other engineers.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Principal frontend-focused software engineer responsible for leading frontend architecture, standards, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and deployment practices. The role delivers scalable customer-facing web applications, component libraries, and design systems using React or Angular. It includes cross-functional product collaboration, technical decision-making, mentoring, modernization initiatives, and occasional full-stack work. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 0–10% business travel.

Principal Software Developer responsible for designing, developing, and scaling distributed, high-throughput software systems. The role delivers features, improves reliability, identifies bottlenecks, leads system migrations from monoliths to microservices, and works across the technology stack. Responsibilities include architectural design, cloud engineering, technical leadership, mentoring developers, communicating technical decisions, and using AI and automation tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Build and scale AI-powered web applications using Ruby on Rails and React. Develop full-stack features, prototypes, and LLM capabilities while independently owning projects from inception through delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, iterate rapidly based on feedback, review AI-generated code, and make sound technical decisions with minimal guidance.

Leads architecture, development, deployment, and operation of scalable Java and Kotlin applications. Responsibilities include backend-focused full-stack development, Kafka data streaming, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, performance optimization, incident response, technical leadership, mentoring, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also drives AI-assisted engineering practices and modernization initiatives while supporting on-call operations.

Own the team’s quality strategy, automation architecture, test frameworks, synthetic-data safeguards, CI feedback, and non-functional testing. Design reliable testing for concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services; diagnose failures across product, automation, data, and environments; and establish AI-assisted quality practices with human oversight. Define risk-based verification, exploratory testing, PHI protections, testability requirements, and residual-risk communication while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Platform.

Design and maintain Anaconda’s internal package build and release platform, improving security, access control, reliability, and operational resilience. Responsibilities include writing software and architecture documentation, reviewing code, diagnosing complex issues, partnering across teams, using AI tools to reduce toil, mentoring engineers, and driving investments that reduce production risk. The role focuses on Python-based infrastructure, platform tooling, DevOps, and SRE practices in a fully remote environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and support of complex, scalable software components and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership through architecture decisions, mentoring, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Partners with product, quality, architecture, and DevOps teams on secure cloud-native solutions, CI/CD, observability, performance, releases, and platform modernization. Participates in hiring and communicates technical risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Design, scale, and maintain high-performance services supporting player registration, authentication, identity verification, fraud and AML screening, geolocation, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and communications. The role involves architecting features, optimizing production systems, managing monitoring and integrations, mentoring engineers, handling migrations, and collaborating across teams. Candidates will operate containerized services, support on-call rotations, and build secure, auditable systems using modern web frameworks, databases, event infrastructure, and authentication standards.

Designs and builds cloud-native maintenance planning software for U.S. Navy and defense customers. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, developing data transformations and APIs, designing microservices, implementing identity and access controls, ensuring data quality and compliance, and leading architecture and technical delivery. The role collaborates with government, vendor, platform, and engineering stakeholders, mentors engineers, documents systems, and supports development through production sustainment in a remote environment.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and support of scalable, fault-tolerant software applications. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, debugging, performance optimization, cloud-native and microservices development, Kubernetes operations, production monitoring, incident response, code reviews, technical planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes to product roadmaps, engineering standards, automation, and on-call support.

Build and maintain scalable billing and monetization systems for subscription, pricing, and payment workflows. Develop large-scale applications using Java, AWS, Lambda, event-driven architecture, REST APIs, and GraphQL. Work with multiple databases, implement automated testing, protect data integrity, and collaborate with internal teams to deliver customer-facing pricing and upgrade experiences.

Leads hands-on development of enterprise solutions using Dynamics 365 Sales, Dataverse, Power Apps, and Power Automate. Designs CI/CD pipelines, establishes engineering standards, manages version control and ALM, and ensures solution scalability and maintainability. Mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, collaborates with architecture and product teams, supports Agile delivery, and serves as a technical stakeholder contact. Participates in overnight and weekend on-call support for Broad Arrow Auctions.

Build a modern web application from its earliest stages as a contract senior software engineer. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, clean architecture, dependency inversion and dependency injection. The technology stack includes .NET Core, Entity Framework, MediatR, FastEndpoints, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL and Azure.

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

Develop and integrate complex software applications as part of a Honeywell engineering team. Interns will contribute software features to products, apply software development lifecycle and configuration management practices, analyze problems, develop efficient solutions, and collaborate with global teams while receiving mentorship and hands-on experience.

Software engineering intern supporting the design, development, integration, and enhancement of complex software applications. The role involves contributing to team goals, creating innovative solutions, developing high-quality features, applying software development lifecycle and configuration management practices, and collaborating with engineers. Interns receive mentorship, hands-on experience, relocation benefits, and short-term housing when eligible.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Build and scale a telemedicine platform using React, TypeScript, Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL. Own features through development, deployment, and launch; develop integrations; write tests; conduct design and code reviews; resolve production issues; and collaborate with Product, Design, and Quality teams in a Scrum environment. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and communicating technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.

Build and ship production software across the frontend and backend, working closely with founders, customers, and product teams. Develop AI-powered features and systems involving web scraping, unstructured data, PDF parsing, and cloud infrastructure. Translate real-world real estate and financing problems into technical solutions, make high-impact decisions, and own shipped code. The internship may convert to a full-time role.