Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Senior backend engineer responsible for setting technical direction, designing scalable distributed systems, building customer-facing web applications, mentoring engineers, and applying machine learning to large-scale healthcare data. The role requires Java, Scala, or Rust expertise, cloud systems experience, technical design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and adoption of agentic engineering practices.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

Hands-on Site Reliability Engineer responsible for production support, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, SLI/SLO development, synthetic monitoring, automation, and toil reduction. The role partners with software engineering to resolve application, database, API, and infrastructure issues, implement permanent fixes, improve reliability practices, and support a rotating on-call schedule.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Design, develop, test, and extend NVIDIA’s large-scale object storage platform. Responsibilities include improving availability, reliability, durability, fault tolerance, and performance across deployments exceeding 10,000 nodes and exabytes of data. The role also automates storage infrastructure provisioning, management, and monitoring; supports AI/ML research teams; owns product delivery through support; and contributes to open-source storage projects.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Develop on-vehicle and simulation software across the autonomy stack: planning behaviors, sensor and payload integration, embedded/vehicle platforms, realistic UxS simulation, and electronics prototyping. Ensure reliable, testable code and support onsite test/integration events (up to 25% travel).

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Design, build, and maintain Node.js/TypeScript backend services; optimize for speed and scalability; collaborate with frontend and product designers; write clean documented code; run performance tests; ensure stability, compliance, and production readiness.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop and deploy software for cyber defense, handle digital twin model construction, and perform site reliability operations.

Design, develop, deploy, and support Epic integrations and related applications. Contribute to architecture and technical decisions, participate in code reviews, and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Provide Tier-2 production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and documentation. Collaborate with Epic analysts, product, QA, and operations to deliver scalable, secure healthcare integration solutions.

Build and enhance full‑stack cloud-native applications using Java/Spring and JavaScript/React. Own the full SDLC, apply TDD and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction as experience increases from contributor to Lead.

Sola seeks a Software Engineer for Desktop Automation to own and enhance their execution platform, focusing on reliability and integrating with AI pipelines.

The Software Engineer will design and implement systems across the stack, focusing on AI-native engineering principles, distributed systems, and high-performance data processing.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for a mortgage lending platform. Own backend responsibilities from design through production, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-service architectures while collaborating with product and full-stack engineers.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Build and maintain full-stack features on a product-oriented team, owning product areas end-to-end. Ship customer-facing functionality, design and optimize data models and schemas, work with React state management, relational databases, cloud services, event streaming, caching, and AI tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, take high ownership, and occasionally support mission-critical work outside normal hours.

Build and scale the platform infrastructure to support mortgage origination: design cloud architecture, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based systems, manage databases, implement observability and incident response, and create internal developer tooling to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you'll build user-facing features, optimize GraphQL backend, and develop scalable systems, contributing significantly to the company's growth.

Build and maintain the core backend product: design and implement features, take ownership of end-to-end outcomes, iterate and fix bugs without a QA team, collaborate with product on scoping, and contribute to company culture and hiring.

Develop and improve software, provide technical leadership to development teams, build APIs and BPMN-based process automation, support user documentation, and deliver low-code/no-code solutions using Appian, Salesforce, or Nintex with Microsoft SQL Server and .NET in agile/hybrid environments.

Seeking a Software Engineer with 3+ years experience in software development, programming (Go, Java, C++, C#), and strong analytical skills.

Design and implement production-quality system software, tools, and frameworks for enterprise storage systems. Develop and run realistic validation and analysis solutions, debug cross-layer issues (application, OS, driver, hardware), collaborate with firmware/hardware teams, drive technical design, mentor engineers, and evolve internal tooling with AI integrations.