Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and maintain enterprise applications supporting creator rights and royalty payments. Own features across Vue.js front ends and Java/Spring Boot back ends, participate in architecture and Agile development, write and review code, design and test data-driven solutions, improve engineering standards, collaborate with stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and work with large-scale data, AWS services, distributed systems, and microservices.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of Signifyd's GCP/Kubernetes cloud platform. Architect scalable, secure infrastructure, embed AI-driven automation, own SLOs and incident response, improve developer experience via CI/CD/GitOps tooling, mentor engineers, manage cloud capacity/FinOps, and build observability and security into the platform.

Build and operate distributed, event-driven backend services for Stacklet’s cloud governance platform. Responsibilities include developing GraphQL APIs, policy execution pipelines, cloud asset and cost data stores, and scalable multi-cloud systems. The role requires designing for reliability, observability, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency; managing PostgreSQL schemas and migrations; and using AWS serverless services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated testing. The engineer will also lead backend initiatives, mentor teammates, and contribute to architectural decisions.

Build and maintain full-stack donor-facing giving forms, payment flows, recurring giving, memberships, and administrative tools. Own projects from architecture through production support, ensuring reliability, accessibility, performance, and data integrity. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers; mentor junior engineers; contribute to technical standards, security monitoring, hiring, and rotational on-call support. Potentially serve as a Tech Lead for roadmap implementation and technical decision-making.

Lead initiatives in designing and building large-scale distributed data systems and ML infrastructure, while collaborating across various engineering teams.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of Airbnb’s global Payments Compliance systems. Set technical direction for compliance experiences, regulatory screening, information collection, and continuous auditing. Collaborate with Product, Design, Policy, Operations, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, configurable, auditable, highly available solutions. Mentor engineers, lead project teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure compliance systems adapt to evolving global regulations.

Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services and APIs for KeeperApp. Own backend components, optimize MySQL schemas/queries, ensure performance and reliability, apply secure coding practices, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver features iteratively.

Remote Senior Software Engineer who evaluates Microsoft and complementary technologies, designs and implements custom software (C#, JavaScript, SQL), applies cloud and DevOps practices (Azure/AWS, CI/CD, containers), mentors and networks professionally, and continuously learns and advises clients.

Lead development of the production toolchain that compiles complex Python packages (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). Build and maintain build/release pipelines, create and review conda recipes, automate processes, mentor engineers, run incident response and postmortems, and advise leadership on technical tradeoffs. Partner with distribution and wheels teams and validate AI-assisted code where used.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.

Lead design and implementation of gameplay and engine systems on Linux platforms. Mentor engineers, define technical specs, manage Linux infrastructure, optimize performance and security, integrate art, maintain documentation, support live services and mobile (iOS/Android) ports, and coordinate cross-team standards and tooling.

Build and operate the internal Developer Platform: improve monorepo CI/CD, scale agentic AI platform (observability, RAG, context engineering), consolidate build systems, automate developer toil, and drive DORA-aligned delivery across teams through design, code reviews, and platform roadmaps.

Develop, test, deploy, and maintain .NET-centric web applications using C#, Angular 17+, and Azure. Build and consume REST APIs, work with SQL Server, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate on code reviews, debugging, performance optimization, and third-party integrations.

Seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build cloud-deployed systems. Must have extensive programming and leadership experience in software engineering.

The Senior Software Engineer, Protocol will architect and develop core protocol components for a blockchain while optimizing distributed systems. Responsibilities include enhancing performance, solving distributed systems problems, and contributing to engineering standards in collaboration with research and product teams.

Develop and maintain scalable software solutions, mentor developers, and integrate AI tools. Collaborate on technical solutions aligned with business goals.

Lead development of automated API, UI, and end-to-end tests for a real-time trading platform. Extend AI-assisted test generation, build scalable CI/CD test frameworks for order lifecycles and market-data streams, reduce flakiness, triage failures, mentor engineers, and drive quality and testability across the product.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop key product features for millions of users, collaborate with teams, and mentor others.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will design and implement software for unmanned aircraft systems, debug issues, collaborate with engineering teams, and maintain high software quality standards.

Lead development of AI-powered full-stack applications, mentor engineers, define technical direction, build performant front-end and scalable backend services, integrate LLMs/RAG, and establish engineering best practices for production AI workflows.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed web-crawling and data ingestion systems. Improve throughput, reliability, observability, and data quality. Develop backend services for job orchestration and asynchronous workloads, partner with product teams to create data products, and mentor teammates on domain-specific acquisition techniques.

Lead backend-focused engineering to design and ship member- and care team-facing experiences. Own architecture end-to-end, set technical direction and quality standards, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable, secure APIs with CI/CD, cloud deployments, and GenAI/LLM-informed workflows.

Design and implement backend systems and APIs in Go, contribute full-stack features with React/TypeScript, define observability data models (OpenTelemetry), lead complex cross-team projects, own production services including on-call, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design to deliver AI observability features.