Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Develop and deploy reliable software for a distributed SQL database in a fast-paced production environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and owning projects throughout the product lifecycle. Work may involve LLMs, vector indexes, database fault tolerance, SQL query performance, SIMD, LLVM code generation, search, and query optimization. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams while developing professionally alongside experienced engineers.

Software Engineer Interns spend 12 weeks contributing to collaborative engineering teams at SingleStore. They develop features, test software, own projects end-to-end, and continuously deploy work to production. Interns gain exposure to the product lifecycle and business while working with experienced engineering mentors and cross-functional teams. The role requires strong computer science fundamentals, programming ability in JavaScript, Golang, or TypeScript, and an interest in building reliable software.

Develop and deploy reliable software for SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and improving systems involving query optimization, fault tolerance, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, LLMs, vector indexes, SIMD, and LLVM code generation. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration across teams, and participation throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and operate Conduit’s control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design reconciliation-based lifecycle systems, schema-driven APIs, usage metering, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Own contracts, versioning, reliability, asynchronous workflows, and cross-functional coordination. Participate in on-call support while improving platform maintainability and automation.

Build and operate Conduit's control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design schema-driven lifecycle systems, usage metering, APIs, contracts, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Ensure reliability through reconciliation, event-driven workflows, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Own cross-team interfaces, improve maintainability, participate in on-call, and debug complex production issues across networking, performance, data integrity, and security boundaries.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Lead the architecture, technical evolution, and hands-on development of a mission-critical software platform using Java, C++, and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, security, technical planning, customer troubleshooting, deployment support, documentation, and engineering leadership. The role requires occasional customer travel and may support critical incidents outside normal business hours.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure. Implement SRE practices, monitoring, observability, capacity planning, Kubernetes and Helm deployments, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud security controls. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure compliance, and mentor engineers while improving reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Design, build, and ship full-stack monetization features spanning payments, subscriptions, checkout, entitlements, reconciliation, and payouts. Integrate payment providers and third-party APIs while ensuring idempotency, retry handling, webhook reliability, and graceful degradation. Instrument features to improve conversion and payment recovery, collaborate with product, design, finance, and partnerships, and mentor engineers while using AI-assisted development.

Develop and architect scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. The role involves building high-availability services, leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, improving quality practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, and addressing scalability, performance, and technical debt challenges.

Develop and scale backend patch-management software using Java and Kotlin for millions of endpoints. Implement enterprise software, design scalable systems, build REST services, work with relational databases and caching systems, and uphold rigorous testing and quality standards. Collaborate with AI workflow, server, platform, design, and product teams. React or Angular experience may support occasional frontend work.

Design and develop scalable, high-availability software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. Build Java and Kotlin applications, implement enterprise design patterns, optimize systems operating at massive scale, and contribute reliable code to production products. Responsibilities include API and REST service development, relational database design, client-server development, caching systems, quality testing, and solving scalability challenges across cloud services supporting millions of endpoints.

Design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs used by merchant and partner integrations. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, balance speed with system quality, debug code, conduct code reviews, and write tested, extensible software. The role requires experience with distributed systems, Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, along with strong communication and ownership of professional growth.

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

Build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CDK. Design highly available cloud environments, automate operational workflows with TypeScript, implement policy-as-code guardrails, optimize cloud costs, and lead disaster recovery planning and testing. The role also involves CI/CD, Kubernetes, networking, identity platforms, cross-team consensus building, project ownership, communication, and mentoring junior engineers.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Design, develop, secure, and maintain mission-critical Microsoft-platform software for DoD programs. Build C# and .NET applications, responsive JavaScript and EXT JS interfaces, REST APIs, and optimized SQL Server databases. Apply secure coding, STIG, RMF, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and compliance practices. Integrate Kiro AI capabilities, collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams, and support deployment and sustainment in classified or controlled environments.

Build Exoware’s production infrastructure from the ground up, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, recovery, CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, security, and operational tooling. Design reliable systems across Kubernetes, ECS, cloud services, networking, and storage while writing software to automate operations. The role requires architectural ownership, production infrastructure experience, and the ability to improve the underlying distributed systems through production insights.