Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Leads the development and deployment of data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP. Manages engineering teams, coaches team members, oversees project planning and execution, analyzes system interactions, manages client relationships, and drives innovation. The role applies software engineering, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML techniques to deliver scalable client solutions while maintaining technical and professional standards.

Leads the development and deployment of software and data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include data engineering, analytics, system improvement, client account management, project ownership, team leadership, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The role requires building scalable applications with large datasets and delivering customer-focused solutions.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Own QA strategy and release quality for POS, back-office, and payments products. Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests; integrate testing into GitHub Actions; validate hardware, offline modes, payment flows, and upgrades; establish release gates and test environments; monitor quality metrics; reproduce merchant issues; and coach engineers on testable design and quality practices.

Develop and support cloud-native software for investment management research, reporting, analytics, risk management, and portfolio operations. Build ETL pipelines, scalable microservices, data applications, and message-driven systems using Python, AWS, Java, and relational databases. Collaborate with product owners, technical leads, architects, business partners, and vendors in an Agile environment. Automate manual processes, create data-driven solutions, document architecture, and provide on-call support.

Lead development of scalable Java software applications and high-availability services. Design architectures, solve complex system challenges, improve performance and scalability, and maintain quality standards. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, own technical initiatives, address support-driven issues, and implement robust testing practices for mission-critical IT operations products.

Design, develop, and enhance scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s IT Operations platform. Lead architectural decisions, build high-availability services, address scalability and technical debt, improve quality practices, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and own technical initiatives supporting millions of endpoints and servers.

Lead development of scalable Java applications and high-availability services. Design system architecture, solve complex scalability challenges, improve quality, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and own technical initiatives supporting a global IT operations platform.

Build and enforce workload safety standards across Affirm’s Amazon EKS fleet. Responsibilities include Kubernetes resource management, workload isolation, disruption handling, cluster capacity analysis, policy automation, production debugging, incident response, fleet-wide rollouts, technical leadership, mentoring, and measuring infrastructure impacts on availability, latency, risk, and cost.

Leads software quality engineering across digital banking products by designing scalable automated tests, expanding frameworks, integrating testing into CI/CD, analyzing defects, and closing testing gaps. Partners with engineering and product teams on quality strategy, reviews automation code, mentors SDETs and QA professionals, leads testing teams, supports bug triage, and establishes consistent testing standards across multiple product areas.

Leads development of resilient, scalable features across Toast’s enterprise Sports and Entertainment platform, including backend, frontend, and POS systems. Responsibilities include designing, deploying, testing, monitoring, and maintaining production services; leading complex technical projects; collaborating with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and other teams; mentoring engineers; and using AI tools to improve development productivity.

Own and deliver highly available, low-latency backend identity systems supporting consumer onboarding, authentication, and verification. Lead quarterly team goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, collaborate with product and design partners, monitor system reliability, improve engineering standards, support on-call operations, and mentor team members. The role requires designing and launching distributed systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Develop and verify embedded battery management software for mission-critical spaceflight systems. Responsibilities include BSP and driver development, bare-metal and OS-level programming, hardware bring-up, lab debugging, benchmarking, communication interfaces, fault tolerance, and hardware accelerator integration. The role collaborates with electrical, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and operations teams while supporting requirements, design reviews, and quality-focused spaceflight development.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Develop and maintain internally facing business applications that automate workflows, provide historical data insights, and improve employee tools. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, designing and implementing solutions, testing and revising applications, fixing bugs, creating reusable components, maintaining development standards, evaluating new technologies, and mentoring junior developers. The role requires full-stack development across ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript frameworks, modern CSS/HTML, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Build and architect Clear Street Active, a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on large-scale initiatives while emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, and developer experience.

Architect and build a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on large-scale initiatives, emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, developer experience, and end-user usability.

Design, build, and operate enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed event-driven systems using C#/.NET, React, cloud platforms, and messaging technologies. Integrate business systems, implement resilient architectural patterns, add AI capabilities, and support CI/CD, observability, security, and production troubleshooting. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers, contribute to technical standards, lead projects when needed, and deliver reliable solutions across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance functions.

Leads delivery of complex software features for desktop utility design tools, translating ambiguous requirements into technical plans and managing performance, correctness, and reliability. Establishes architecture, coding standards, CI/CD and AI-assisted development practices; mentors engineers and leads design and code reviews. Partners with product, QA, delivery, and customers to create reusable solutions, contribute to roadmaps, and represent the team in architecture discussions.

Build Apollo’s AI-powered Builder Studio end to end, including chat-driven app creation, live previews, generated-app runtimes, workflows, integrations, delegated permissions, security, and reliability. The role requires strong full-stack development, production LLM experience, frontend expertise with complex UIs, backend and workflow design, and ownership of an ambiguous 0-to-1 product.

Design, develop, debug, and improve Elastic’s cloud control-plane offerings. The role involves guiding cross-team architecture, leading development best practices, creating technical plans, diagnosing complex failures, prioritizing fixes and features, and collaborating with Support and Elasticsearch engineering teams. The engineer will contribute to reliable, scalable SaaS foundations while providing pragmatic technical leadership across a distributed engineering organization.

Develop and maintain a Medicare claims-processing mainframe system using COBOL and related technologies. Responsibilities include technical design, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, test-region deployments, documentation, requirements decomposition, estimation, and client collaboration. The role provides technical guidance and mentorship to developers while supporting Agile/SAFe maintenance operations and complex solutions across the DME contract.