Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; and mentors engineers across teams. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong system design, and experience delivering complex production systems in distributed international teams.

Own frontend architecture for multi-tenant applications serving internal, customer, and partner audiences. Build React and TypeScript interfaces, shared component libraries, theming and branding systems, accessible user experiences, and integrations with governed APIs. Establish engineering standards, document technical decisions, navigate open architecture questions, and support workflows ranging from immediate interactions to longer approval processes involving sensitive or regulated data.

Build and improve a browser extension and serverless backend using a strongly-typed functional stack. Design algorithms to locate page elements, extract structured data, and integrate AI for web automation. Collaborate on a small distributed team focused on usability and reliability.

Own and deliver major features across the flight booking funnel: flight search, booking creation, and post-booking fulfillment. Implement award ticket pricing, point transfers, and integrations with airlines and GDS partners. Collaborate with the flights expert to scale routing, booking engines, and partnership integrations.

As a Compiler Engineer, you'll enhance compiler performance, support multiple operating systems, develop toolchains, ensure interoperability, and contribute to open source.

As a Software Engineer at MerusCase, you will develop and enhance software features, collaborate with teams, troubleshoot issues, and uphold coding standards while mentoring junior engineers.

As a Software Engineer - L3 Support, you will resolve complex Ubuntu-related issues, collaborate with teams, and participate in upstream communities to drive bug fixes and improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you will resolve complex customer issues related to Ubuntu and open source software, participate in upstream communities, and develop and review code across multiple layers of the software stack.

Join Aleph's engineering team to develop the Core Product, focusing on user-facing features for financial data insights. Collaborate with leadership, design robust software components, and contribute to system architecture in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The Software Engineer (Frontend) at Metabase will develop user-friendly data tools, leveraging React and CSS while ensuring optimal communication and coding practices.

Seeking exceptional software engineers to build and maintain user-friendly backend systems primarily in Clojure and JavaScript, focusing on product complexities and user experience.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams to enable scalable, high-performance systems, provide production support and troubleshooting, and drive platform features that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Join a remote Strategic Projects engineering team to turn AI-native prototypes into production-grade services. You will harden demos (LLM gateways, proxies, sandboxes), implement observability, error handling, and security practices, work with reference customers on integrations, and ensure agent-generated code meets production review and operational standards.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native services powering millions of devices. Architect solutions for scalability and integration, own full service lifecycle in Kubernetes, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and drive engineering best practices across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications for payroll and accounting. Collaborate with engineers and product partners, write tested code, participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture, improve CI/CD and monitoring, support production (including on-call), and communicate progress while continuously learning.

The Software Safety Engineer will analyze safety requirements, conduct safety analyses, coordinate with engineers, ensure safe software implementation, and document progress/risks.

The Senior Software Engineer will build user features using Golang and cloud technologies, lead tool implementation, and collaborate across teams to enhance productivity.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Build and scale full-stack customer and agent support experiences across React/TypeScript frontends and Go backend services. Own APIs, integrations, and AI/ML vendor integrations, drive CX outcomes through experimentation and metrics, improve reliability through on-call incident response, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Ops to deliver measurable product outcomes.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable compliance-platform capabilities for government vendors, federal agencies, and SLED organizations. Design new workflows, shared infrastructure, and tagging systems while partnering with engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and early design partners. Translate evolving requirements into durable solutions, lead complex cross-functional projects, and help shape engineering culture in a rapidly scaling environment.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include architecture, modern C++ development, MPI/OpenMP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed networking, database internals, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues across large-scale clustered systems.

Design and develop massively parallel distributed database kernels for real-time analytics at terabyte and petabyte scale. Responsibilities include low-level C++ development, MPP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed communication using MPI and RDMA technologies, database internals, vector indexing, in-database machine learning, performance tuning, architecture reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

Lead the architecture, development, integration, debugging, and testing of complex real-time embedded software for defense and aerospace products. Responsibilities include bootloaders, device drivers, applications, test software, requirements and design documentation, customer issue resolution, bids and proposals, and cross-functional collaboration with systems and hardware teams. The role requires compliance with military and aerospace standards and ownership of advanced technical issues.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include query execution, columnar storage, transaction management, cluster coordination, hardware-aware optimization, SIMD vectorization, RDMA networking, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.