Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for real-time data synchronization and streaming. Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability, guide multi-region and disaster-recovery architecture, own projects from concept to production, and improve observability, automation, and incident response.

Senior Full Stack Engineer building scalable, high-performance web applications. Own feature design through delivery, write clean reusable code, optimize databases, work with CI/CD, containers, cloud, distributed systems, mentor teammates, and maintain zero customer-reported bugs.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design and deploy solutions for state governments, ensuring high standards of security and privacy while leading cross-functional teams.

Lead platform engineering to improve developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, monorepo health, and internal tooling (80%); contribute to product features, scalable APIs, and AI-native marketplace infrastructure (20%).

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems and APIs for ingesting, processing, and routing large-scale telemetry data. Own end-to-end features, contribute to architecture and internal tools, write automated tests, participate in on-call/support rotation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js and React.js on AWS. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), build CI/CD pipelines, perform Linux troubleshooting, ensure secure-by-design patterns, and collaborate with architects, UI/UX, and DevOps teams to deploy and operate scalable AWS services.

Design, build, and operate a scalable, highly available cloud-native infrastructure for ClickHouse Cloud. Lead optimization initiatives across compute, storage, and networking, automate cloud resource management, collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders, and deliver cost-efficient, secure distributed systems and tooling for a global SaaS platform.

Develop, test, and improve the OT Security Platform as part of the Microsegmentation Product Team, ensuring high-quality software and architecture.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve automation workflows, and mentor junior engineers in a security-focused development environment.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

Design, build, and operate multi-tenant elastic storage control-plane services. Ensure high availability and performance, run observability and on-call practices, lead complex projects, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to scaling services handling petabytes of data.

Design and build end-to-end web and AI-powered dashboard features, scale cross-platform full-stack infrastructure, standardize product patterns, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and collaborate with product and design to improve user workflows and AI adoption.

Build and operate scalable backend services and integrations for chat, voice, and agent-assisted support. Improve reliability, performance, and AI-driven capabilities; collaborate across product, design, AI, and operations; mentor engineers and lead technical design and architecture.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Saga, Deepgram's voice OS. Develop backend services (Node.js, Socket.IO, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify), frontend interfaces (TypeScript, React, Next.js), and scalable REST/GraphQL APIs. Participate in architecture, code reviews, performance optimization, and translate product requirements into iterative deliverables.

Design, build, and iterate patient onboarding systems and registration/eligibility flows. Own end-to-end projects, run experiments, optimize for performance, correctness, and resilience, and provide technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Analytics.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives; build and maintain AI-driven systems; mentor and raise the technical bar across teams; collaborate cross-functionally; ensure data security and HIPAA-compliant practices; operate in an AWS + Kubernetes environment while introducing new technologies as system load grows.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Lead design and development of high-performance, offline-capable iOS (iPad) and Android apps for mission-critical drone operations. Build real-time maps, video streaming, telemetry overlays; integrate with hardware; optimize battery, memory, and latency; implement offline-first sync; collaborate with backend/hardware teams; mentor engineers and establish CI/CD, testing, and security best practices.

Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and define technical strategy for new products. Design and ship full‑stack, AI‑driven features end‑to‑end, build scalable data ingestion and API systems, partner with product/design/customer teams to translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality and standards across the organization.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.