Top Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into scalable designs, writing and reviewing code, leading sprint teams, removing delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and guiding technical strategy. The role emphasizes microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, APIs, messaging, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Develop full-stack software and database applications across legacy and modernized systems. Integrate AI capabilities using LLMs, agents, and automation; contribute to web platform quality, resiliency, and upgrades. Participate in Agile planning, development, testing, releases, demonstrations, and retrospectives. Provide post-production support, including quarterly on-call rotation, while collaborating with product teams to deliver reliable solutions supporting sales operations.

Build and operate end-to-end, consumer-scale features across backend services, APIs, iOS, and Android for Life360’s Aging in Place vertical. Use AI-native and agentic workflows with LLMs, contribute to architecture and code reviews, participate in on-call response, mentor teammates, and establish AI engineering practices adopted across the organization. Collaborate with product and design while ensuring performance, reliability, accessibility, and member-focused outcomes.

Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails backend systems supporting solar development, value evaluation, and loan servicing. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, solving complex domain problems, collaborating with Product and company experts, shaping architecture and technical direction, and improving engineering processes as the company scales.

Own and modernize multiple web properties across Next.js, Astro, React, and WordPress. Lead legacy migrations, site consolidation, SEO-safe redirects, and content migration. Design and operate AI-driven agentic workflows for development, publishing, QA, and maintenance, with human review gates. Build CRO programs, A/B and multivariate tests, and maintain GTM, Marketo, and Salesforce integrations while partnering with Marketing, SEO, and Product Marketing.

Build and maintain native Android and iOS systems, ensuring cross-platform consistency. Contribute across web services, databases, testing, deployment, and production support. Collaborate with development teams, follow and improve engineering patterns, and use AI-assisted development tools. The role requires mobile development experience, REST API knowledge, Kotlin, Java, Swift, Android Studio, Xcode, Git, agile practices, and 3–5 years of professional experience.

Build and maintain full-stack donor-facing giving forms, campaign tools, administrative features, and payment flows across Stripe, ACH, and digital wallets. Own features from technical design through deployment, testing, and production support. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners in an Agile environment, contribute to code quality and team initiatives, and participate in rotational support and on-call coverage.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions for publisher websites. Own Freestar’s Prebid.js and Prebid Server header-bidding wrapper, including architecture, adapters, modules, releases, and performance. Integrate with Google Ad Manager, GPT, IMA SDK, and programmatic advertising systems. Monitor Core Web Vitals, reliability, and network performance while reviewing code, resolving critical issues, and guiding technical decisions.

Own and evolve cybersecurity platform integrations, parser frameworks, data normalization, and microservice-based solutions. Design secure APIs, process security logs from diverse sources, and ensure ingested data supports detection and analytics. Drive architecture decisions, improve framework reliability, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to accelerate development, testing, parsing, automation, and operational workflows.