Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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.

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Design and build scalable frontend and backend features for route planning, routing, navigation, and route execution products. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve planner efficiency, leverage AI appropriately, and promote technical excellence. Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team growth, engage with customers, and help scale products across industries and customer verticals.

Develop and maintain scalable control-plane software for DigitalOcean’s network products. Responsibilities include building APIs and microservices, implementing and optimizing services, troubleshooting customer issues, supporting existing products, improving development processes, and contributing to architecture and engineering best practices. The role involves end-to-end SDLC ownership, CI/CD deployment, distributed systems, containerized workloads, and collaboration across networking teams.

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.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and releasing scalable full-stack features for Huntress’s Core Platform. The role owns complex projects end to end across frontend, backend, databases, and infrastructure; promotes code quality through testing, reviews, and pairing; breaks down epics into milestones; contributes technical solutions; and mentors engineers. The position requires extensive Ruby on Rails and full-stack experience, plus familiarity with Linux infrastructure, databases, external APIs, Agile practices, and responsible AI-assisted development.

Lead technical strategy and execution for foundational Trust and Safety systems supporting consumer risk and credit reporting. Design and operate highly available backend systems, improve reliability and monitoring, establish engineering standards, guide complex cross-functional initiatives, and mentor engineers. The role involves ownership of system architecture, technical planning, operational readiness, code quality, and team development.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Build and ship production software for Toast’s retail platform, partnering with engineering, product, and customers. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, designing and prototyping end-to-end solutions, making foundational technical decisions, incorporating customer feedback, tracking industry trends, and deploying AI-powered experiences. The role supports large grocery and convenience-store customers and may involve visiting stores to understand operator workflows.

Develop and support enterprise full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, Python, React, and cloud technologies. Build secure APIs, microservices, integrations, chatbot interfaces, and conversational UI features. Deploy cloud-native applications with Azure or AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes while contributing to CI/CD, testing, monitoring, security, and architecture. Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, and business teams in an agile environment.

Build and scale the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers across PSA Partner Offers and eBay Consignment. Responsibilities include developing buyer tooling, pricing and ranking engines, seller experiences, microservices, distributed event-driven systems, and observability. The role owns end-to-end product delivery, cross-functional execution, technical architecture, ecosystem integrations, and production outcomes while using AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Lead the design, development, modernization, and governance of enterprise customer-data applications and integrations. Manage operational data stores, system dependencies, IAM integrations, security, compliance, DevOps practices, deployments, and production support. Define target-state architectures, guide technology modernization, oversee vendor teams, troubleshoot critical issues, and communicate technical strategies across business and technology teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Build performant, accessible front-end interfaces for AI agents, dashboards, conversational user interfaces, and visualization tools. Collaborate with designers, AI engineers, and backend developers to create scalable components, optimize cross-browser experiences, and iterate on UX using testing, feedback, and usage data.

Lead frontend and full-stack engineering, architect scalable features, integrate APIs and cloud services, optimize rendering and performance, establish engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor developers. Collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams to deliver user-focused software while managing priorities in an ambiguous environment.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.