Top 41 Lead Software Development Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead Software Test Engineer
Cox Automotive —Austin, TX
- $122,700 - $204,500 a year
- Full-time
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- No degree
- Paid jury duty
- Paid holidays
Software Engineer Lead - Backend Modernization
Netspend —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Computer Science
- Bachelor of Science
- System design
Software Manager / Section Lead
BAE Systems Inc. —Austin, TX
- $132,962 - $226,035 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Computer Science
- 8 years
- Bachelor's degree
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
DevOps Technical Lead
Charles Schwab —Austin, TX
- $129,000 - $200,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- System design
- Office
- Java
- Paid parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
Lead SW Engineer
Visa U.S.A. Inc. —Austin, TX
- $173,100 - $276,800 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- System design
- 11+ years
- Office
- Wellness program
- Health savings account
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Open BMC
Celestica —Austin, TX
- 6 years
- Office
- Bachelor's degree
Lead DevOps Engineer
Charles Schwab —Austin, TX
- $150,000 - $175,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Software troubleshooting
- Paid parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
Lead iOS Engineer
Bumble Inc. —Austin, TX
- $225,000 - $255,000 a year
- Call employer
- Hybrid work
- 6 years
- Office
- Mentoring
- Paid parental leave
- Disability insurance
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Lead Software Engineer
Western Union —Austin, TX
- $163,550 - $242,614 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Office
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
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Lead Software Engineer
Cadence Design Systems —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Software troubleshooting
Lead Software Engineer - Bee AI
Bumble Inc. —Austin, TX
- $225,000 - $255,000 a year
- Call employer
- Hybrid work
- System design
- Office
- 8 years
- Paid parental leave
- Disability insurance
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08 - Lead Engineer, Software
Celestica —Austin, TX
- Azure
- Management
- Computer Science
Lead QA Engineer
Charles Schwab —Austin, TX
- $60.10 - $64.90 an hour
- Hybrid work
- Office
- Java
- 8 years
- Paid parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
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Lead DevOps Engineer
University of Texas at Austin —Austin, TX
- From $85,000 a year
- Overtime
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- 5 years
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
Senior Software Engineer (Tech lead)
Thermo Fisher Scientific —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- 5 years
Lead Software Developer
REV 1 POWER SERVICES INC —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- 5 years
- Work from home
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8d
Lead AI Software Engineer
Tricentis —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- 3 years
- Mentoring
- US work authorization
Lead R&D Software Engineer, Software/Hardware Integration
University of Texas at Austin —Austin, TX
- From $104,000 a year
- Urgently hiring
- Management
- Computer Science
- Office
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
Land.com - Lead Software Engineer
CoStar Group —Austin, TX
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Office
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
Lead DevOps Engineer
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association —Austin, TX
- AWS
- Bachelor's degree
- Quality control
- Health savings account
- AD&D insurance
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Lead Software Test Engineer

Cox Automotive -
Austin, TX

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Job Details

Full-time
$122,700 - $204,500 a year

Benefits

Paid jury duty
Paid holidays
Military leave
Paid time off
Parental leave
Volunteer time off
Bereavement leave

Qualifications

Tooling
Automation software
AI platforms (beyond public GPTs)
Quality assurance experience within IT
Collaboration with product development teams
Developing automated testing protocols
Scalability
Quality check automation
AI-driven automation
Scalability and Performance Testing (system development)
Load Testing
Software architecture

Full Job Description

Job Description:

The Lead Software Test Engineer applies advanced knowledge of testing principles, methodologies, and techniques to ensure the quality and reliability of complex, distributed software platforms. Serving as an influential participant in design reviews, this role develops and executes functional, integration, system, load, and performance tests; defines system-wide standards for test automation; and coordinates cross-organizational UAT environments in partnership with integrating teams. This role applies effective influence and collaboration-without formal management authority-across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and SRE to embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

The Lead STE takes the lead on difficult defect detection and troubleshooting, predicts and documents potential risks and constraints, and leverages AI tooling to drive consistency in test automation across the engineering organization. As engineering teams increasingly rely on AI-generated code, the Lead STE serves as a thought leader in evolving quality practices to meet this shift - defining how TDD requirements, code complexity standards, and test coverage thresholds are embedded directly into AI coding agent configurations, ensuring quality is enforced at the point of generation rather than discovered after the fact.

Primary Duties and Key Responsibilities:

Governs system-level test case libraries end-to-end: sets coverage standards, identifies gaps, and drives closure with engineering and product teams.
Defines technical standards and reference implementations for test automation at the API, integration, and system end-to-end layers.
Coordinates with integrating customers to establish and maintain cross-organization test cases and automation in UAT network of environments.
Identifies teams with test coverage or automation gaps and embeds to lead remediation - coaching on patterns, driving script development, and verifying quality gate criteria are met before release.
Drives adoption of quality standards within AI agent configurations across engineering teams, ensuring TDD practices, code complexity standards, and test coverage requirements are codified in team project files rather than applied as post-generation checks. Defines system-wide scenarios for load, stress and soak testing.
Designs and operates shared test execution infrastructure that enables functional and non-functional test suites to run consistently across CI/CD pipelines, scheduled cadences, and multiple environments - reducing manual effort and accelerating quality feedback loops.
Partners with SRE to design Game Day scenarios that validate system resilience under failure conditions, translating reliability risks and SLO targets into executable test cases.

Required Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field, or equivalent combinations such as a master's degree and up to 4 years of experience, or 10 years of experience with no degree.
Hands-on experience developing test automation with modern frameworks such as Playwright, RestSharp, Pact.NET, and xUnit.
Hands-on experience creating performance test automation with tools such as JMeter or k6.
Experience with test management and orchestration (test reporting frameworks, TestContainers, etc.).
Reviews product requirements and system designs with a testability lens, contributing test strategy input during architecture reviews and driving implementation patterns that support maintainable, scalable automation.
Skilled at building partnership with Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams both inside and outside of the organization.
Remains current on test automation tooling and methodologies, recommending and driving adoption of advanced approaches that measurably improve coverage, defect detection, or CI/CD feedback cycle times.
Demonstrated experience working with AI coding tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) and the ability to define and implement quality guardrails within agent configurations, constitutions, or briefings

USD 122,700.00 - 204,500.00 per year

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $122,700.00 - $204,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits:

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

EOE, including disability/vets

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Lead Software Development Engineer jobs in Austin, TX

Lead Software Test Engineer

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Software Manager / Section Lead

DevOps Technical Lead

Lead SW Engineer

Senior Lead Software Engineer - Open BMC

Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead iOS Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer - Bee AI

08 - Lead Engineer, Software

Lead QA Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Tech lead)

Lead Software Developer

Lead AI Software Engineer

Lead R&D Software Engineer, Software/Hardware Integration

Land.com - Lead Software Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

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