Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Leads architecture and development of scalable, high-availability software systems supporting millions of endpoints. Owns complex multi-team initiatives, makes technical decisions, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and improves software quality. Requires deep Java development, distributed systems, API design, database engineering, system scalability, testing, and AI-assisted development experience.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise full-stack applications using React, Java/Spring Boot, and Python. Build secure APIs, microservices, integrations, chatbot interfaces, and cloud-native solutions. Work with Azure or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, databases, messaging systems, and enterprise security practices. Collaborate in agile teams, participate in architecture discussions, refine requirements, conduct code reviews, and maintain quality through automated testing. Experience integrating AI or generative AI solutions is preferred.

Develop and support full-stack enterprise applications for legal operations, matter management, document management, compliance, and business process automation. Build React frontends, Java and Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, event-driven integrations, and cloud-native solutions. Work with databases, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, security, production support, and Agile delivery while collaborating with legal, compliance, product, architecture, and engineering teams.

Build and scale backend-focused systems supporting truckload freight operations, including high-volume carrier quotes, automated transactions, distributed services, and APIs. Design scalable data models and architectures, contribute across the React and TypeScript stack, make key technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product leadership. The role also involves developing AI-powered logistics tools and maintaining reliable, secure infrastructure on Kubernetes and GCP.

Design, implement, test, and modernize backend services and integrations (TypeScript/Node.js and C++). Lead large projects, write technical specifications and API contracts, enforce coding standards, coach engineers, and drive legacy-to-modern migrations within online banking and core systems.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Join a small engineering team as a hands-on full stack developer. Accelerate frontend delivery, then take on backend services, infrastructure, and core capabilities. Own features from design through release and operational stability, collaborate with customer-facing engineers and founders, and promote effective AI-assisted development practices. The role requires strong backend-oriented full stack skills, product-launch experience, system design judgment, self-direction, and periodic travel to a California office.

Own the end-to-end development of a secure SMS Adapter connecting retail and grocery store systems, beginning with BRdata, to Ottimate’s AP platform. Responsibilities include sync architecture, retries, conflict handling, local credential security, monitoring, testing, packaging, updates, installation, and deployment on Windows machines. The engineer will work directly with pilot customers to troubleshoot network, permissions, and data-access issues while evolving data models and integrations for additional store systems.

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, internal developer tooling, release automation, preview environments, and reliability practices. Build reusable libraries and SDKs, improve monitoring and tracing, manage SLOs and incident response, and solve scaling challenges across data and compute systems. The role requires strong AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, TypeScript and Node.js knowledge, startup infrastructure experience, and clear technical documentation.

Build scalable Golang microservices, APIs, and data-centric systems supporting eligibility, coverage, billing, client workflows, and healthcare operations. Automate manual processes, develop self-service tools, ensure data accuracy and traceability, and collaborate with data and AI teams on validation, automation, and anomaly detection. The role requires production backend experience, event-based architectures, cloud platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Own backend and product delivery from scoping through production. Design customer-facing backend services, AI agent capabilities, APIs, data models, and system architecture for large unstructured datasets. Lead high-impact technical initiatives independently, maintain engineering quality, shape product direction with founders, and translate customer needs into dependable software. The role requires advanced Python, production-scale backend experience, system design expertise, and a product-minded approach.

Design, build, and operate MongoDB Atlas features and distributed backend systems, with a focus on encryption, compliance, customer-managed keys, and cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Lead complex technical projects and fleet-wide production rollouts, collaborate with product, design, customers, and support teams, mentor engineers, resolve production issues, and participate in on-call support.

Design and deliver scalable, secure software systems for Bankrate’s digital products. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, developing APIs and cloud services, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, partnering with product and design, delivering large initiatives independently, resolving cross-team technical issues, mentoring engineers, improving engineering standards, and evaluating tools that enhance reliability, performance, and team productivity.

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.

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.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.

Develops, enhances, tests, debugs, deploys, and supports enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, IDMS, DB2, and related technologies. Troubleshoots production issues, collaborates with end users to define requirements, ensures performance and security, applies Agile practices, and mentors junior developers. The role supports remote personnel serving a Kansas City, Kansas customer and requires the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

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 strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.