Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead design and delivery of scalable full-stack owner-authenticated web experiences. Drive React front-end architecture and Java/Spring Boot backend services, own end-to-end initiatives, improve reliability and performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design to deliver customer-facing capabilities.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Lead design and evolution of customer-facing digital commerce systems (checkout, billing, payments, subscriptions, catalog, cart, orders). Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate coding, review, testing, and documentation while ensuring security and production readiness. Drive architecture and API decisions across modern web apps, improve engineering excellence (testing, automation, observability, DevOps), build reusable patterns, and coach engineers to raise team productivity and technical delivery.

Lead design and implementation of Kubernetes-based cloud platform capabilities across Azure and GCP. Build operators, reusable abstractions, platform tooling, and improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, reliability, and developer experience. Drive architecture, on-call/incident response, cross-team technical influence, and mentor engineers.

Develop and support Ambiq's Trusted Execution Environment and related security implementations for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with security standards and seamless integration with customer builds.

Lead design and architecture of scalable full-stack systems for Avail renter technology. Drive technical direction, mentor engineers, ensure code quality, reliability, and security, collaborate with Product and Design, evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot production issues, and participate in hiring and onboarding.

Lead DevOps and platform engineering for VCU/CCU infotainment systems. Define CI/CD architecture, optimize Yocto embedded builds, implement distributed build systems, automate releases, build self-service developer platforms, improve observability and developer workflows, apply AI/ML for predictive build/test optimization, and mentor engineers while driving cross-functional delivery from design to production.

Senior individual contributor responsible for architecture, design, implementation, testing, and optimization of software for robotics and autonomous systems. Drive cross-functional technical direction, deliver high-performance C++/Python code, ensure reliability, scalability, and production readiness across perception, controls, and embedded platforms.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of scalable applications using React and NodeJS, optimize development processes, and manage projects within an Agile framework.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of a billing platform, drive architecture, mentor engineers, and migrate services to Azure, using modern frameworks and event-driven architectures, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

Senior individual-contributor owning architecture and technical direction for cross-platform, cross-language SDKs. Split time between hands-on coding and setting standards for API design, versioning, performance, reliability, and AI-assisted tooling. Mentor peers, drive consistency across Unreal/Unity/C++/Go/JavaScript SDKs, and partner with managers and studios.

Lead technical design and end-to-end delivery of full-stack, scalable features; mentor engineers; integrate ML/data-science where useful; own production monitoring, performance, and refactoring; collaborate cross-functionally.

Lead and deliver end-to-end software features, refactor legacy code, architect scalable and secure systems, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure high-quality user-focused code and designs.

Lead cross-functional engineering efforts to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure features. Own projects end-to-end, refactor legacy code, mentor engineers, write technical designs, and collaborate with product partners to deliver high-quality user-focused software.

Lead the design and evolution of predictive maintenance platform, build and scale ML-powered features, and mentor other engineers.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI healthcare payment integrity platforms. Provide technical leadership, own production code and releases, design data/retrieval architectures, ensure observability, security, and compliance, and collaborate with ML, product, and architecture teams to deliver performant SaaS solutions.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Lead technical direction for GM's MBFF platform and core microservices. Design scalable APIs and integrations (REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, event-driven), drive DevOps/CI-CD and observability standards, champion AI-enabled operational tooling, guide architecture and production readiness, mentor senior engineers, and align platform strategy with product, security, and SRE teams.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency distributed services. Drive performance optimizations, incident RCA, system design reviews, and adoption of AI/LLM tooling. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product to manage roadmaps and delivery risks.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.