Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs (Node.js, Firebase). Optimize performance, ensure code quality via reviews and unit tests, debug and upgrade systems, and contribute to frontend work as needed. Stay current on backend and Gen AI integrations and collaborate across the team.

Design, build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot integrations between Vividly and customer ERP, banking, and other systems. Translate accounting workflows into technical designs, define mappings and transformations, lead technical discovery, support customer UAT, document solutions, and resolve production issues. The role also develops reusable integration patterns, improves APIs and integration frameworks, and advises customers and internal teams on technical architecture and system constraints.

Own end-to-end supplier integrations: design, implement, test, and monitor third-party APIs. Ship weekly, improve tooling and abstractions, ensure reliability, and mentor peers. Use AI-assisted workflows to speed integration development.

Own and advance Yahoo’s enterprise Node.js development environment, including runtimes, packages, container images, internal integrations, and CI/CD workflows. Manage runtime lifecycles, security updates, dependencies, releases, testing, automation, and troubleshooting. Support GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Enterprise while integrating AI programming tools to improve developer productivity. Partner across engineering and security teams, and document platform changes, migrations, and deprecations.

Build scalable simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Model hypothetical scenarios, allow users to vary configurations and assumptions, evaluate impacts, compare tradeoffs, identify risks, and integrate simulation capabilities into broader product workflows. The role involves full-stack engineering across design, development, testing, and operations, with emphasis on distributed systems, algorithms, network modeling, and computational reliability.

Build and maintain Rocket Money’s Autopilot banking and investment systems. Responsibilities include developing React interfaces and Node.js/GraphQL backends, making architecture decisions, collaborating with stakeholders, managing vendor integrations, improving observability and performance, and owning the technology lifecycle from planning through production maintenance.

Develop and scale cloud-based media encoding pipelines supporting workflow orchestration, metadata publishing, task prioritization, and catalog management. Design distributed systems, write high-quality Java code, build automated tests, collaborate cross-functionally, and own projects from conception through production. The role supports streaming, advertising, broadcast television, video podcasts, and other media experiences.

Design, build, and maintain highly available APIs and distributed services supporting millions of customers. Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containers, and automation. Improve system performance, reliability, and security; monitor and troubleshoot production issues; apply AI-enabled tools; and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver resilient, customer-focused solutions.

Develop production software for maritime route optimization, vessel performance and fuel-consumption modeling, voyage analysis, simulation, and route evaluation. Build and improve optimization algorithms, APIs, services, testing, and explainable recommendation systems using Rust and Python. Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime specialists to translate complex physical and mathematical problems into maintainable software supporting U.S. Government and defense customers.

Refine, stabilize, and enhance a Google Docs add-on including Apps Script refactoring, OAuth2 and REST API integration, retry and sync logic, UI improvements, end-to-end testing, and preparing the add-on for Google Workspace Marketplace publication and security review.