Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered B2B SaaS products across frontend, backend, and AI. Own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, ensure maintainability, mentor teammates, and inform roadmap and implementation decisions.

The Senior Fullstack Software Engineer will design, implement, and maintain features for Conveyor's SaaS platform, involving both backend and frontend work, while collaborating closely with team members and mentoring juniors.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Develops and debugs software enhancements and subsystems for systems software, including operating systems, networking, databases, utilities, and Internet tools. Executes test plans, identifies and resolves issues, and collaborates with internal and outsourced development partners. Contributes to project teams delivering reliable, cost-effective solutions for low- to moderately-complex products while applying foundational software design, coding, testing, and debugging knowledge.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Lead engineer responsible for designing, building and operating scalable Big Data/ETL pipelines and production services on AWS. Drive automation (including LLMs/agents), SRE practices, security and data accountability, monitoring/alerting, incident management, and cross-team coordination. Champion AI-assisted engineering, remediate control/security findings, and improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Lead teams and projects to design, build, and operate scalable, highly available payment systems. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, deliver cloud-native full‑stack solutions using microservices, containers, databases, and AWS/Azure/GCP technologies, and occasionally write or review code.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Build automated test frameworks and scalable QA processes for front-end, back-end, and integrated aerospace systems. Develop full-stack applications using React, Grafana, GoLang, PostgreSQL, and TimescaleDB. Support microservices, CI/CD quality gates, hardware-in-the-loop systems, telemetry, data acquisition, embedded systems, and propulsion test platforms while collaborating across engineering teams.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for industrial humanoid robots. Integrate manipulation, locomotion, and perception capabilities; develop safe, reactive plan execution using classical control and learned policies; build data curation, synthetic data generation, behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression-testing pipelines. The role supports simulation and deployment at live industrial sites and requires expertise in robotics autonomy, world models, NVIDIA Cosmos, and Isaac Sim.

Build and maintain scalable backend applications, serverless functions, microservices, data workflows, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native architectures using Python and AWS. Manage databases, APIs, batch jobs, and real-time integrations while optimizing performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data teams; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, development standards, and technical mentorship. Healthcare claims data experience is required.

Lead frontend-leaning full-stack implementation work for carrier and enterprise integrations: architect reusable UI and API layers, author RFCs, guide technical delivery, enforce testing and security best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to scope and ship production integrations.

Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

Build full-stack features for a real-time collaborative content platform, spanning backend services, APIs, and frontend systems. Design and implement maintainable, well-tested software; contribute to architecture and technical decisions; collaborate with product and design; integrate AI into development and product workflows; participate in code reviews; and help establish engineering quality standards on an early-stage team.

The Senior Software Engineer for the Treasury team will develop backend services for fund management, ensuring system reliability and leading projects in a fast-paced environment.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Develop, test, and maintain complex software systems for U.S. Navy launch test facilities. Design, code, debug, integrate, and document software for PLCs, data acquisition and control systems; analyze requirements, implement algorithms, and support field installation, testing, and commissioning. Requires problem resolution and test documentation.

Design, build, and maintain scalable AI systems and backend products. Responsibilities include backend development, front-end integration, database performance optimization, data security, debugging, unit testing, code reviews, and building, releasing, and maintaining containerized solutions.

Develop and configure enterprise-scale digital software solutions for asset performance management and predictive analytics. Responsibilities include translating customer requirements into software architectures, designing and implementing applications, documenting solutions, testing technologies, supporting customer implementations, and collaborating with subject matter experts, project managers, product managers, and development teams. The role also involves presentations, scalable application development, secure distributed architectures, and occasional customer project travel.