Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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 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 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.

Design, develop, modernize, test, and maintain data-driven software and relational databases for FAA aeronautical information distribution. Gather requirements, implement COTS integrations, troubleshoot production issues, produce technical documentation, participate in reviews, and provide technical leadership and mentoring across the software development lifecycle.

The Software Engineer will manage data collection for AI model training, extend cloud infrastructure on GCP, and collaborate on data strategy.

Lead end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend for an enterprise data analytics platform. Design, implement, and maintain React UIs, backend services, APIs, databases, and distributed systems. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering, mentor engineers, improve quality through testing/CI, and introduce new technologies including AI-assisted development.

Senior backend engineer on an education-focused technology consulting team. Own complex backend systems end-to-end: estimate scope, build and support production Python services, design REST/GraphQL APIs, work with cloud and Docker, use relational databases, maintain strong automated tests and Git workflows, and represent technical work to clients. Role values mentorship, ownership, and mission-driven work.

Build and maintain on-chain smart contracts and backend services for branded USDC-backed stablecoins. Own issuance, reserves, mint/burn, and rewards systems; drive architecture, security, and operational excellence; ship features with product and design partners and ensure well-tested, auditable production deployments.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, you'll lead the development of major features using React and TypeScript, ensuring performance and integration with backend systems. You'll also manage releases, improve team efficiency, and contribute to a customer-centric product experience.

Lead architecture and implementation of software for autonomous UAS systems; mentor engineers; ensure compliance with aerospace standards; optimize CI/CD pipelines.

Develop and enhance the new Stores platform while supporting various e-commerce tools to improve seller success online.

As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at Vanta, you will lead complex projects, set technical direction, design and develop new functionalities, and contribute to the engineering culture while mentoring other engineers.

The Software Engineer will develop and support the MEMX Trading system, focusing on high throughput event-sourcing applications and resolving production issues.

Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud automation and tooling for Azure Government. Operate mission-critical production systems (24x7 on-call), implement IaC and DevOps pipelines, resolve Azure PaaS and app issues, enforce federal security/compliance, manage IAM and deployments, support audits, and maintain technical documentation.

Seeking experienced Senior Backend Engineers to join a collaborative team, focusing on backend systems, shared services, and product features aimed at improving user experiences and monetization.

Design and implement DataPath on silicon. Write efficient, modular code with thorough testing. Requires experience in packet forwarding and virtualized Linux environments.

Develop automated solutions for material handling, including software design, integration, testing, support, and project management, primarily in back-end development.

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will oversee technical development in a B2B SaaS healthcare environment, mentor junior engineers, and lead product features.

The Software Engineer will develop customer-facing integrations, build APIs, enhance security, and improve system reliability while collaborating with multiple teams.

The Senior Web Software Engineer will build and maintain web components, own features from inception to production, implement designs, partner with teams, and impact product evolution.