Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Build and operate the platform supporting Honeydew’s digital dermatology product. Responsibilities include migrating data infrastructure to RDS, strengthening AWS security and compliance, standardizing logging, developing AI-assisted vulnerability remediation workflows, creating infrastructure and automation, supporting feature teams, and reviewing code. The role requires backend service and API development, platform security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and strong data and architecture skills.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend applications. Own projects from architecture through monitoring, collaborate with product and design teams, participate in technical and code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve engineering practices. The role focuses on secure, reliable systems across cybersecurity, AI, and distributed systems while providing technical guidance to peers.

Leads engineering for one or more product-domain teams, partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Insurance stakeholders. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, coaching engineers, driving cross-team initiatives, contributing code, leading incident response and resiliency improvements, and establishing engineering standards. Requires strong Ruby on Rails expertise, Rust familiarity, software leadership experience, and excellent communication skills.

Develop, test, deploy, and support resilient software solutions for Root’s payments and billing product domain. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to understand customer problems, communicate technical work, improve code and processes, and resolve production incidents affecting customers. The role requires software engineering experience, Ruby on Rails or equivalent expertise, and familiarity with React or React Native.

Build, maintain, and steward open source cloud-native software for defense environments. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, reviewing code, managing releases, engaging open source communities, resolving technical ambiguity, documenting systems, making architecture decisions, improving security and interoperability, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong Go development, Kubernetes and cloud architecture expertise, collaboration with contributors and users, and participation in ecosystem standards and projects.

Leads architecture, hands-on software development, deployment, and production issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, engineering, product, and customer success teams to prioritize strategic programs, improve customer value, share technical best practices, and remove production blockers.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Develops high-quality software and AI-powered prototypes for national security missions. Responsibilities include architectural design, feature development, automated testing, backlog grooming, sprint execution, API and SDK development, integration debugging, and research involving LLMs, embeddings, and smaller trained models. The engineer independently leads focused efforts while collaborating with product and engineering teams, using modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend software systems. Owns significant features end to end, makes architectural decisions, improves scalability and performance, ensures code quality, mentors engineers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Builds production-ready C# and .NET APIs within microservices and containerized environments, using cloud databases and services. Participates in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservices environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI services. Optimize performance, implement responsive user interfaces, troubleshoot systems, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with AI/ML engineers and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and supports secure external data integrations using .NET, Azure, Informatica, Snowflake, APIs, ETL, and file-based interfaces. Leads technical delivery, performs impact analysis, supports production systems, troubleshoots defects, collaborates with business and technology stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role owns integration architecture and solutions for insurance and financial-services partners, including DTCC and iPipeline feeds.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Own the architecture and delivery of major backend services and long-term engineering initiatives. Design scalable, dependable transaction-heavy systems, write technical proposals, assess business impact, and collaborate with product teams. Use and validate AI coding tools, coach engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, and message brokers, with remote work from the US or Canada.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, dependable platform features from concept through release. Creates technical design proposals, evaluates business impacts, uses and validates AI-assisted code, coaches engineers, contributes to technical roadmaps, and partners with product teams to align engineering work with business needs.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Build and scale full-stack financial product experiences for OnePay’s employer benefits platform. Lead technical design, establish architectural and coding standards, optimize systems for reliability, security, performance, and scalability, and make technical decisions balancing rapid delivery with sustainable solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver features across web, iOS, and Android using distributed systems, APIs, and modern frontend technologies.

Design and implement backend services, modernize legacy systems into microservices, ensure strong testing and production observability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams. The role requires independent project ownership, strong system design, AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude or Cursor, effective communication with nontechnical stakeholders, and adaptability in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Design, build, test, and deliver complex customer-facing software features and services for Slate’s digital platform. Own technical approaches, quality, APIs, cloud-based web services, integrations, and trade-off decisions. Collaborate with product and UX teams, conduct code and design reviews, identify risks, coordinate work, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

Lead the architecture and development of Green Dot’s cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and integrations; guide CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and compliance practices; lead incident response and architectural decisions; reduce technical debt; mentor engineers; and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable banking and payment solutions.

Develop and deploy responsive full-stack web applications from design through production. Translate product requirements into high-quality software, maintain pixel-perfect design standards, collaborate with product, design, and QA, and help guide technology strategy. The role acts as a technical lead on product initiatives and reports to the CTO, with a focus on AI-native development and secure fintech workflows.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Vanta’s third-party risk management products, including vendor onboarding, lifecycle management, monitoring workflows, data models, and platform abstractions. Write tested code, participate in reviews and architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing functionality. Experience with TypeScript, React or Node.js, web applications, databases, and REST or GraphQL APIs is expected.