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.

Lead architecture and execution of vNode runtime integration with containerd and the kubelet, define and test namespace-based isolation primitives, mentor engineers, run design reviews, operate internal tenant clusters, and represent the project in upstream communities and conferences.