Top Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Design, implement, and operate cloud-native microservices and platform services for high-throughput supply chain systems. Build and optimize real-time and batch data pipelines, define APIs and event-driven integrations, use AI-assisted development tools, own production reliability, participate in code review, and mentor engineers while producing robust, scalable solutions.

Designs and implements enterprise-wide architecture and platforms, leads solution design, consults with stakeholders, provides technical direction and mentoring, champions best practices and security, develops CI/CD and microservices-based systems, works with databases and infrastructure, and leverages LLMs to accelerate development.

Build and maintain developer platform tooling that ensures SIL-4 safety compliance: automation for certification evidence, CI/CD improvements, Bazel build maintenance, lightweight web dashboards, developer workflow automation, monitoring, and on-call support.

Define and evolve the OnitX AppBuilder platform architecture, set standards and governance, lead frontend and backend technical direction, mentor engineers, drive adoption of microservices and event-driven patterns, ensure security/compliance, collaborate with DevOps/SRE, and integrate AI to improve performance and velocity.

Lead full‑stack development of microservices-based case management and workflow automation for DoD systems. Build REST APIs, responsive front ends, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud IL2–IL5 deployments while ensuring DISA STIG/RMF compliance, data protection, performance optimization, automated testing, Agile delivery, documentation, mentoring, and Tier 3 support during critical incidents.

Lead and scale the Trade engineering organization, owning technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for trading systems (matching engines, order/execution infrastructure, market data, FIX). Hire and develop senior engineering talent, ensure reliability/performance/risk controls, partner with product, compliance, risk, and legal, and make high-level build-vs-buy and architecture decisions while remaining technically hands-on.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team (player-coach) to build and maintain mission-critical device monitoring, alerting, and internal health tooling. Drive technical strategy and microservices design, contribute full‑stack TypeScript/Node.js/React code, and manage containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes/Helm and AWS services (S3, API Gateway, SQS). Collaborate cross-functionally and use AI-assisted developer tools to increase team velocity.

Lead technical direction and architecture for Android-native POS and handheld apps. Build offline-first, high-performance systems, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability, modularize codebase, and enhance CI/CD and observability for production at scale.

Design and build backend services, APIs, SDKs, and user-facing systems enabling secure agent-to-agent financial interactions. Implement cryptographic identity, payment workflows, transaction processing, reputation tools, and scalable infrastructure for AI-native financial products.

Technical leader on the Elasticsearch Search team driving design and implementation of search and vector features, improving relevance, contributing to Lucene, mentoring engineers, triaging community issues, and writing idiomatic modern Java for a distributed, collaborative team.