Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead engineering strategy, architecture, AI-native product development, execution, hiring, and organizational growth. Partner with the CEO, leadership, and Product to build technical roadmaps, establish AI-assisted development and evaluation practices, improve infrastructure and engineering quality, and maintain delivery accountability. This hands-on leadership role requires coding credibility, product collaboration, talent development, cross-functional communication, and ownership of engineering metrics, culture, and technical direction.

Embed with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and troubleshoot production communications systems using Telnyx APIs, AI voice, messaging, wireless, SIP, and WebRTC. Lead POCs through production launches, own customer outcomes, document solutions, resolve complex integrations, and collaborate with Product and Engineering on roadmap improvements. Travel 10–30% to customer sites for deployments, workshops, and escalations.

Lead enterprise automation architecture and delivery across RPA, workflow automation, process mining, intelligent automation, testing, bots, citizen development, and AI orchestration. Establish and operate an Automation Center of Excellence, identify high-value use cases, guide implementation, manage governance and regulatory alignment, support training and adoption, and track financial value. Work hands-on with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and external consultants in a regulated life sciences environment.

Lead an IT software engineering and support team responsible for digital platform stability, defect resolution, incidents, and system enhancements. Prioritize requests based on business value, urgency, and feasibility; communicate trade-offs and timelines to stakeholders; establish support and ticketing processes; analyze defect trends; and drive continuous improvement. Champion team adoption of agentic AI coding tools, prompt and context engineering, reusable integrations, and evidence-based verification of AI-generated work.

Designs end-to-end Forward Deployed Engineering curriculum projects for experienced production engineers. Responsibilities include defining technical infrastructure, databases, learning goals, submission guidelines, and assessment rubrics; evaluating current tools and deployment approaches; collaborating with instructional designers; and supporting sales and marketing enablement. The role requires real-world ownership of enterprise AI deployments from initial client engagement through production adoption, strong technical writing, and mentoring or teaching experience.

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).

Build and scale high-performance iOS and Android apps with Expo/React Native. Implement native integrations, smooth UIs and animations, automated tests, performance fixes, and collaborate with backend, design, and product teams using AI-assisted workflows.

Build and scale Cresta’s no-code conversation intelligence platform across the frontend and backend. Responsibilities include creating visual workflow editors, backend services and APIs, data models, storage layers, and scalable systems using React, TypeScript, Python or Go, Postgres, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch. Collaborate with product, design, and AI/ML teams to deliver intuitive experiences for non-technical users while improving performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and support enterprise integrations using the Boomi platform. Connect systems such as NetSuite, SAP, D365, Workday, Salesforce, and other applications through APIs, EDI, databases, files, messaging, and cloud services. Perform data transformation, error handling, optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, and production support. Lead integration workstreams, manage deliverables and deployments, conduct code reviews, define reusable standards, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior developers.

Own the architecture and reliability of Payabli’s core payments infrastructure, including exactly-once payment execution, APIs, multi-rail orchestration, batching, funding, reconciliation, ledgering, observability, and failover. As the founding Payments Core engineer and senior individual contributor, establish technical standards, influence architecture, set hiring criteria, and build systems capable of processing high-volume money movement accurately and reliably.