Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

This role involves building product, shaping company culture, developing web applications, writing APIs, and planning sprints. You'll collaborate with design and engineering teams to enhance user experience and take part in hiring.

Lead frontend architecture and product development for member-facing web and mobile apps. Build high-performance, accessible React/React Native UIs, own end-to-end features including APIs and backend services, mentor engineers, drive design system and frontend standards, and collaborate with Product, Design, Clinical, and Data teams to deliver scalable, user-centered health experiences.

Design and scale core infrastructure for an exchange platform focusing on latency and performance, while building APIs and managing technical relationships with clients in the sports prediction market.

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.

Lead design and development of highly available payment processing, subscription billing, settlement, refunds, and reporting systems. Integrate with external payment processors and APMs, ensure automated build/test/deploy pipelines, debug production issues, optimize performance, decompose features for incremental releases, conduct design/code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and incorporate regulatory requirements (PCI‑DSS, PSD2/SCA, 3DS2).

Lead frontend architecture and technical direction for shared UI systems and design system. Build, maintain, and document reusable component libraries; collaborate with UX, product, and engineering. Champion accessibility, testing, performance, and design-to-code workflows. Mentor engineers, review contributions, and deliver major UI initiatives end-to-end while balancing technical debt and product needs.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead the technical strategy for high-concurrency services, oversee backend design, integrate AI, and ensure operational excellence at Cars Commerce.

Lead design, development, and support of enterprise infrastructure and services. Drive architecture discussions, prototypes, capacity planning, and system launches. Troubleshoot performance, collaborate across teams and open-source communities, document solutions, and support on-call rotations to ensure reliable, scalable cloud and Linux-based systems.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Lead full-stack development using React, Node and TypeScript. Design scalable architecture, write and review code, ensure performance, accessibility and security, mentor off-shore teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, support production (including weekends/off-hours), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical applications.

Design, build, deploy, and operate backend services, APIs, integrations, and web applications. Own end-to-end features, improve CI/CD and observability, troubleshoot cross-service issues, participate on-call, and collaborate with product and leadership to deliver reliable production systems.

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

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for loan origination and servicing. Own features end-to-end, improve performance, reliability, CI/CD, mentor engineers, and translate complex financial requirements into reliable technical solutions.

Lead modernization of internal platform tooling to 12-factor apps, delivering full-stack services (Go/Python + React/Vue), instrumenting observability (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki), driving Kubernetes-native GitOps (ArgoCD/GitLab CI), mentoring developers, and automating infrastructure with Ansible/Terraform on private/bare-metal clouds.

Design, develop, and maintain complex, enterprise-scale software features and services across the OneStream CPM platform. Lead technical design, implement UI and APIs, ensure JSON/XML contract compatibility, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD, testing, and production operations. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate development.

Design, build, and own large-scale distributed backend systems in Go to process billions of events and petabytes of data. Lead architecture, reliability, observability, and performance efforts; improve service communication and data pipelines; debug production at scale; mentor engineers and share learnings publicly.

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data ingestion pipelines; own recurring ingestion runs and validate data quality; maintain CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, and incident response; automate operational work; ensure secure handling of healthcare data and collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to improve reliability and production readiness.

Lead full‑stack modernization of a legacy .NET/SQL Server payment-integrity platform. Build modular Angular frontends and resilient .NET microservices, improve APIs, optimize database performance, embed security/privacy, use AI coding agents to accelerate refactors, and drive delivery with strong observability and testing practices.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack features across Java backends and React frontends; write automated tests; support production systems and CI/CD pipelines; integrate AI/ML features; participate in architecture reviews; triage incidents and improve observability and operational runbooks; collaborate in Agile squads with global teams.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to design and deliver scalable, high-performance systems. Define technical roadmaps, set code quality standards, drive architecture and technical debt resolution, collaborate with Product and Design, make technology decisions, lead hiring and interviews, and research new tools to solve complex problems while advocating for engineering priorities and timely feature delivery.

Design and deliver backend systems and APIs in Go, contribute full-stack features with React/TypeScript, lead complex technical projects, participate in on-call rotations, collaborate with product and design, and drive maintainable, scalable observability features.

Design, build, and scale backend systems and APIs for high-transaction consumer products. Collaborate with product, credit, compliance, support, and analytics teams. Contribute to code reviews, technical planning, security, and operational excellence. Mentor peers and promote engineering best practices.

Work with senior engineers to develop, test, and maintain full-stack web applications. Build front-end interfaces, implement back-end APIs, write clean code, assist with testing and code reviews, participate in Agile ceremonies, and continuously learn new tools and best practices.

Build and own mission-critical full‑stack features for a cannabis ERP and commerce platform. Work across product, design, and support to deliver high-quality code, tests, and AI-native workflows; define timelines, communicate progress, and ensure data integrity and compliance.

The role involves developing and optimizing core components of the Flow blockchain protocol, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability, while also ensuring interoperability with the web3 ecosystem.