Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop, test, implement, optimize, and maintain scalable software systems. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers; troubleshoot technical issues; conduct code reviews; contribute to architecture decisions; follow secure coding practices; and participate in Agile ceremonies.

Build full-stack AI-powered video creation and collaboration tools, including rich multimedia interfaces, backend APIs, server-side processes, LLM-powered features, and conversational experiences. Work with generative AI, computer vision, and machine learning models in production. Improve system performance, reliability, and code quality while rapidly prototyping and delivering product features in a collaborative, high-ownership environment.

Develops, configures, deploys, and supports secure, reliable, scalable production software. Collaborates with UX, engineering, product management, and agile teams; writes code and scripts for infrastructure automation, monitoring, testing, and resiliency; configures commercial solutions; and creates dashboards, logging, and alerting. The role also contributes to quality standards, change control, root-cause analysis, and continuous professional learning.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead and optimize data transformation projects using AI, collaborate with various teams, and ensure project delivery while balancing technical debt and new features.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise applications and SaaS products. Owns architecture, technical design, product lifecycle, roadmap execution, release quality, security, reliability, and operational readiness. Partners with Product, Architecture, Quality, Cloud, and Support teams, while driving engineering practices, AI-assisted development, process improvements, and customer issue resolution. Builds high-performing teams, coaches managers and engineers, and communicates technical direction, risks, and delivery outcomes to stakeholders.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and operate internal software, platform services, developer tooling, Kubernetes infrastructure, and reproducible Nix environments. Develop Go and Rust automation, improve CI/CD and reliability, support Linux systems, networking, identity, endpoints, and SaaS platforms, and resolve ambiguous technical problems independently. Partner across engineering, security, operations, and business teams while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Lead development of high-performance Rust parsers, compilers, automata, indexes, and data structures for structured language-model generation. Optimize decoding-loop performance through profiling and benchmarking, integrate Python bindings and C++/CUDA components into inference engines, collaborate across teams, and maintain production-quality code through testing and CI/CD.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for complex software architecture, design, development, modernization, and delivery. Partners across engineering, product, and architecture teams; mentors engineers; reviews designs and code; guides distributed, event-driven, cloud-native solutions; and promotes testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational excellence. The role remains an individual contributor while influencing technical decisions, managing dependencies, solving ambiguous problems, and evaluating emerging Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities.

Lead customer implementations of healthcare data platform solutions by configuring the Smile platform, scripting, troubleshooting, designing technical solutions, and providing architectural guidance. Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions, support technical analysts, contribute to RFPs, manage concurrent projects, and participate in on-call support.