Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building data and machine learning systems that provide competitive travel-market intelligence. The role involves setting technical strategy, designing APIs and backend architecture, prototyping solutions, partnering with product and ML engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead development of scalable software solutions across frontend and backend systems. Build React and TypeScript interfaces, C# .NET and Node.js services, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, and optimized MSSQL schemas and queries. Collaborate on requirements and roadmaps while promoting code quality, testing, RESTful architecture, and CI/CD best practices. The role also uses generative AI tools and coding agents, with preferred experience in Docker, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and automated testing.

Build and operate on-premises infrastructure for containerized AI/ML services. Responsibilities include Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, observability with Prometheus and Grafana, resilient high-availability infrastructure, and collaboration with mission stakeholders, data scientists, and system administrators. The role supports reliable delivery of mission-critical AI capabilities and may involve model-serving technologies, service meshes, SIGINT systems, and CNO operations.

Design and build Kubernetes-based LLM serving infrastructure, including GPU scheduling, scaling, model lifecycle management, Helm packaging, enterprise and offline deployments, API integrations, and production observability. Develop across a multi-service Go codebase, contribute design documentation and reviews, and help guide engineering direction. The role requires strong Kubernetes, distributed systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code expertise, with GPU, inference, or adjacent systems experience.

Build, deploy, and own scalable consumer applications and services for a digital lending platform, with a focus on React frontend development. Responsibilities include designing features, automated testing, full software development lifecycle participation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, system scalability and reliability, technical debt reduction, mentoring frontend engineers, and using AI-driven coding agents and agentic workflows.

Design and build Go-based storage control-plane services, CSI drivers, integrations, and tooling for Kubernetes AI and compute workloads. Automate storage provisioning using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps tools, support hybrid and bare-metal deployments, and develop observability for performance and reliability. Integrate enterprise storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale and VAST across cloud, edge, and air-gapped environments, including K0rdent, Cluster API, Harbor, and PKI/TLS infrastructure.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering backend-focused member and care team experiences. The role partners with product and clinical teams, sets technical direction, builds scalable and secure systems, maintains high-quality tested code, mentors engineers, and guides architecture across the stack. Responsibilities include API design, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build and operate full-stack internal web applications and conversational AI bots using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Elasticsearch, Kibana, LLMs, RAG, and vector search. Responsibilities include technical design, development, testing, CI/CD deployment, feature flag management, production operations, and on-call support. The role also involves replacing legacy SaaS tools, integrating Elastic Stack capabilities, and using AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, modular designs; write well-tested code; lead design and code reviews; guide agile sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also contributes to technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes engineering best practices.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable distributed systems, shipping high-impact features, and building AI-powered tools for a virtual healthcare platform. The role includes mentoring engineers, partnering with product and clinical leadership, translating user needs into technical solutions, and guiding frontend and backend application development in a fast-paced startup environment.

Develop and maintain secure client/server enterprise applications, appliance operating systems, release pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include coding, testing, troubleshooting, patching, packaging, signing, and releasing software for on-premises and cloud deployments. The role collaborates with engineering, QA, support, and customers while managing AWS infrastructure, databases, security controls, documentation, and Agile development practices.

Leads architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production ownership for complex software products. Guides engineering practices including TDD, pair programming, CI/CD, microservices, and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership across product teams, facilitates Agile ceremonies, resolves technical issues, and manages medium to large engineering teams. Advises direct reports on priorities, risks, budgets, administrative policies, and sourcing decisions while driving KPI achievement.

Designs and operates mission-critical stateful backend services for real-time decisioning and personalization. Responsibilities include state-machine architecture, transactional state management, idempotent and exactly-once processing, outbox-based event delivery, concurrency control, observability, auditability, and failure recovery. The engineer will use AI-assisted development tools, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in architecture reviews, and mentor other engineers. The role requires hybrid work near specified metropolitan areas with occasional office travel.

Support flight software certification for the Nyx orbital vehicle through V&V and IV&V, requirements management and tracing, test planning, documentation for certification and NASA safety reviews, standards interpretation, interfacing with system engineering and product assurance, and contributing to software design and integrated mission testing using C++ and Python.

Develops and maintains full-stack software within a remote Agile DevOps team. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, solution design, Java and frontend development, REST APIs, data access layers, database schemas, automated testing, CI/CD implementation, and Docker-based development. The role also supports quality, security, and deployment standards while collaborating within a Scrum team.

As a Billing & Analytics Software Engineer, you'll design and maintain the billing pipeline, integrate billing systems, and develop customer-facing analytics dashboards to support revenue recognition and operational observability.

Own and build Hercules’ billing, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, monetization, and commerce infrastructure. Integrate payment providers, support currencies and payment methods, and design reliable, low-latency systems with webhook processing, retries, reconciliation, and scalable usage metering. The role requires strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, code quality, product judgment, and proficiency with Hercules’ TypeScript-based stack, including React, Postgres, Redis, containers, and Temporal.

Lead development of Hercules's AI-focused platform-as-a-service, including its database-like object model, backend services, APIs, SDKs, hosting infrastructure, and distributed systems. Build reliable, scalable, multi-tenant services with strong isolation, observability, resilience, low latency, and high throughput. Apply advanced Rust, data systems, architecture, API design, performance optimization, and AI-assisted development skills.

Own growth across the customer journey, including landing-page conversion, activation, paid conversion, retention, expansion, and monetization. Build and optimize product experiences, run A/B experiments, analyze results with SQL, and identify high-impact revenue opportunities. Develop scalable software using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and related technologies while applying AI to accelerate engineering workflows.

Build and own full-stack features across Hercules’s AI agent, app builder, hosting infrastructure, SDK, platform, and internal AI coding harness. Design scalable systems, APIs, data models, and SaaS capabilities including billing, identity, analytics, and notifications. Write maintainable code in monorepos, ship customer-facing features independently, and work with TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, cloud infrastructure, and AI development tools.

Build and own user-facing frontend interfaces across AI agents, app-building tools, mobile PWA experiences, and marketing pages. Responsibilities include frontend architecture, system design, data modeling, API design, maintaining high-quality monorepo code, independently shipping customer features, and delivering polished UX/UI. The role requires strong TypeScript and React expertise, familiarity with AI coding workflows, and ideally experience with containers, Postgres, and Redis.

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure for AI agents, app building, hosting, SDKs, and an enterprise platform. Design distributed, multi-tenant, data-intensive services; develop clean, maintainable code in monorepos; and independently ship customer-impacting changes. The role uses TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, and related cloud and AI technologies. Candidates should demonstrate strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, product sense, and advanced AI-assisted development skills.

Build and own user-facing features across Hercules’ AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, mobile app, and platform. Design scalable systems, APIs, data models, and high-quality code in a monorepo. Ship SaaS capabilities such as billing, analytics, feature flags, internationalization, and notifications. Apply strong product and UX judgment while working with TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI coding tools.

Own Alkira’s global platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, shared databases and storage, service lifecycle, disaster recovery, Terraform modules, observability, and production tooling in Go or Python. Drive architectural decisions, cost reduction, reliability, security, and multi-team platform adoption while mentoring engineers and participating in on-call support.

Design and build shared backend services, APIs, distributed primitives, and developer tooling used by engineering teams. Own complex platform capabilities from architecture through production support, troubleshoot Linux-based environments, improve scalability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations. Mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance while developing cloud-native microservices with Golang, gRPC, and Protobuf.