Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead hands-on development and operation of billing, usage, rates, and marketplace systems. Build primarily in Go while contributing to TypeScript and React applications, Kubernetes infrastructure, databases, CI/CD, and cloud services. Improve reliability, automation, observability, auditability, and production recovery. Deliver projects end to end, investigate incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate across teams, and provide technical leadership through design, reviews, mentoring, and operational improvements.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads technical direction for the Partner Services engineering area while remaining hands-on with mission-critical financial systems. Owns architecture roadmaps, ADRs, observability, reliability, security, technical investment, OKRs, and KPIs across multiple teams. Leads major incidents, drives AI-native engineering practices, partners with product and executive stakeholders, participates in architecture governance, and mentors engineers at every level. The role requires strong payments or banking familiarity, executive communication, and extensive technical leadership experience.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a multi-team billing engineering workstream supporting payments, banking, treasury, and financial settlement. Remains hands-on while owning architecture roadmaps, ADRs, reliability, observability, security, AI-native engineering practices, technical investment, and business outcomes. The role partners with senior engineering and product leaders, manages high-stakes incidents, strengthens engineering maturity, and mentors engineers at every level.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Evaluates AI-generated software for correctness, quality, efficiency, security, and maintainability. Designs programming challenges, reference solutions, test cases, and evaluation criteria. Reviews technical reasoning related to debugging, architecture, and system design, then provides structured feedback and documentation. The role requires strong programming fundamentals, software testing and code review experience, analytical problem-solving ability, and clear technical communication.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Leads hands-on development of scalable full-stack applications using React, .NET, Next.js, TypeScript, and Azure. Responsibilities include architecture, technical decision-making, code reviews, performance optimization, application security, CI/CD implementation, mentoring engineers, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes directly to coding, database optimization, API development, and cloud-native deployment practices.

Design, build, and maintain software applications; collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders; resolve bugs and production issues; write scalable, testable code; perform testing and debugging; produce technical documentation; mentor peers; participate in on-call rotation; leverage the team's data ecosystem to inform application design and improvements.

Develop and test systems software for HPE ProLiant servers, supporting OEM and service-provider customers. Responsibilities include debugging software issues, creating test plans and automation, testing beta servers, validating Linux compatibility in UEFI and Secure Boot modes, and collaborating with development teams, vendors, and product management on customer-requested features. The role also provides design recommendations for future server products and manages test execution and reporting.

Design and develop embedded flight software and firmware for spacecraft environmental sensors supporting NASA human spaceflight programs. Responsibilities include requirements definition, C development, unit testing, code reviews, coverage analysis, integration, verification, hardware-in-the-loop testing, certification support, defect resolution, and adherence to NASA software processes. The role collaborates with engineers and contractors across programs and requires strong communication, testing, and full software lifecycle experience.

Entry-level software engineering role in NOV’s one-year Pathway Rotational Program. Responsibilities include designing and debugging software for drilling equipment and applications, maintaining documentation, supporting implementation and training, troubleshooting software and hardware, gathering requirements, working with customers, and participating in design reviews. Candidates should be graduating in May 2027 or have graduated within the past two years in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline.

Build and scale full-stack financial product experiences for OnePay’s employer benefits platform. Lead technical design, establish architectural and coding standards, optimize systems for reliability, security, performance, and scalability, and make technical decisions balancing rapid delivery with sustainable solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver features across web, iOS, and Android using distributed systems, APIs, and modern frontend technologies.

Lead the architecture and delivery of TeamSnap’s Android advertising platform, including native, display, and video ad experiences. Build privacy-conscious consent and measurement capabilities, optimize performance, shape Kotlin and Jetpack Compose architecture, and lead cross-team technical initiatives. Partner with advertising, product, design, legal, and data teams while mentoring engineers and establishing Android standards.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Build and lead data catalog infrastructure supporting data discovery, metadata management, governance, quality, lineage, privacy, access control, and retention. Develop scalable metadata integrations, onboarding tools, data policies, and end-to-end lineage products across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualization, and third-party datasets. Collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to ensure Airbnb data assets are cataloged, discoverable, governed, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Lead the architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of scalable customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Make technical decisions, drive design and code reviews, integrate third-party SaaS platforms, improve system quality and performance, collaborate with product and UX teams, mentor engineers, and shape company-wide technical objectives.

Leads architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of major customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Makes complex technical decisions, drives code and design reviews, ensures quality and integration, collaborates with product and UX, mentors engineers, and shapes company-wide technical direction. Builds scalable distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations while simplifying ambiguous problems and delivering reliable customer experiences.

Design, build, test, and deliver complex customer-facing software features and services for Slate’s digital platform. Own technical approaches, quality, APIs, cloud-based web services, integrations, and trade-off decisions. Collaborate with product and UX teams, conduct code and design reviews, identify risks, coordinate work, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

Lead the architecture and development of Green Dot’s cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and integrations; guide CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and compliance practices; lead incident response and architectural decisions; reduce technical debt; mentor engineers; and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable banking and payment solutions.

Develop and deploy responsive full-stack web applications from design through production. Translate product requirements into high-quality software, maintain pixel-perfect design standards, collaborate with product, design, and QA, and help guide technology strategy. The role acts as a technical lead on product initiatives and reports to the CTO, with a focus on AI-native development and secure fintech workflows.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Vanta’s third-party risk management products, including vendor onboarding, lifecycle management, monitoring workflows, data models, and platform abstractions. Write tested code, participate in reviews and architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing functionality. Experience with TypeScript, React or Node.js, web applications, databases, and REST or GraphQL APIs is expected.