Top Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Own end-to-end delivery of complex software features for a virtual care platform. Design scalable systems, build AI-powered agents and workflows, enhance reliable mobile and web experiences, and translate clinical and user needs into technical solutions. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical staff while focusing on patient impact, product quality, and engineering efficiency.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript advertising technology, specializing in Prebid.js, Prebid Server, header bidding, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, implement ad tech integrations, monitor Core Web Vitals and performance, review code, track industry standards, and maintain deployed solutions. The role requires deep programmatic advertising expertise, Google Cloud experience, and ownership of reliable client-side monetization systems.

Build production-grade test automation infrastructure across API, integration, end-to-end, contract, regression, load, and performance testing. Develop Playwright suites, integrate automated tests with GitHub Actions release gates, create AI-assisted test generation workflows, maintain coverage dashboards, reduce flakiness, and establish performance-testing frameworks. Partner with engineers and product managers to define coverage, acceptance criteria, performance thresholds, and quality standards across the organization.

Leads end-to-end software development for AI-infused enterprise applications, including architecture, database design, coding, testing, deployment, and service reliability. Builds Copilot and agentic solutions using Azure and modern full-stack technologies. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes quality and security practices, supports enterprise integrations, and collaborates with product teams, program managers, UX designers, and data scientists to deliver scalable commercial software.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard’s platform. Own features end-to-end from technical design through rollout and iteration, partnering with Product and front-end teams. Develop reliable, observable cloud-native services consumed across multiple products, contribute to roadmap prioritization, and deliver iteratively in a remote startup environment.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.

Leads architecture and development of highly available, distributed backend systems supporting Airbnb’s AirCover insurance platform. Owns policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, experimentation, and scalable multi-region capabilities. Partners with product, data science, legal, and engineering teams; analyzes conversion data; ensures auditability, privacy, reliability, and data integrity; mentors engineers; and applies emerging technologies such as LLMs where beneficial.

Lead architecture and reliability for a high-scale alerting platform. Design rule-based, ML-driven, and correlated detection systems; own Kafka-based event delivery, webhook reliability, idempotency, and sustained-load performance. Transform security and network telemetry into topology and dependency models that support LLM-assisted investigation and remediation. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide long-term platform strategy across multiple alerting teams.

Build core experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. The role emphasizes clean, documented, tested code; system design; error handling; performance; domain-driven design; microservice architecture; and technical guidance through code reviews. Candidates will primarily work with front-end technologies while contributing to backend services in an agile Scrum environment.

Lead architecture and development for AKS Flex, scaling etcd and Kubernetes control planes for distributed node fleets. Design remote-node provisioning, lifecycle automation, Kubernetes-native APIs, secure bootstrap, upgrades, and reliability systems across Azure, on-premises, edge, and other clouds. Drive performance testing, production operations, open-source collaboration, technical strategy, cross-team alignment, and mentorship while solving distributed-systems, storage, security, and scalability challenges.

Design and build the core vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own backend features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems architecture challenges involving networking, storage, isolation, and resource sharing. Contribute to open-source projects and the Kubernetes community, operate autonomously in a high-growth startup, and help define scalable Kubernetes multi-tenancy solutions.

Design and develop the backend of the vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems and multi-tenancy challenges. Contribute to open-source projects and Kubernetes community initiatives, build scalable isolation and resource-sharing solutions, and operate autonomously in a fast-growing startup environment.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building data and machine learning systems that provide competitive travel-market intelligence. The role involves setting technical strategy, designing APIs and backend architecture, prototyping solutions, partnering with product and ML engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead development of scalable software solutions across frontend and backend systems. Build React and TypeScript interfaces, C# .NET and Node.js services, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, and optimized MSSQL schemas and queries. Collaborate on requirements and roadmaps while promoting code quality, testing, RESTful architecture, and CI/CD best practices. The role also uses generative AI tools and coding agents, with preferred experience in Docker, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and automated testing.

Build and operate on-premises infrastructure for containerized AI/ML services. Responsibilities include Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, observability with Prometheus and Grafana, resilient high-availability infrastructure, and collaboration with mission stakeholders, data scientists, and system administrators. The role supports reliable delivery of mission-critical AI capabilities and may involve model-serving technologies, service meshes, SIGINT systems, and CNO operations.

Design and build Kubernetes-based LLM serving infrastructure, including GPU scheduling, scaling, model lifecycle management, Helm packaging, enterprise and offline deployments, API integrations, and production observability. Develop across a multi-service Go codebase, contribute design documentation and reviews, and help guide engineering direction. The role requires strong Kubernetes, distributed systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code expertise, with GPU, inference, or adjacent systems experience.

Develop and maintain full-stack features for a healthcare analytics platform using Angular, C#, REST APIs, SQL, Snowflake, AWS, and Power BI. Build reports, dashboards, and data pipelines handling claims and other sensitive healthcare data. Participate in testing, code reviews, product planning, on-call support, and compliance with HIPAA and privacy requirements.

Designs and develops scalable, resilient distributed systems and microservices for a cloud-based healthcare platform. The role spans .NET, SQL, Angular, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, security, performance optimization, and full-stack development. It provides hands-on technical leadership, architectural guidance, mentoring, incident support, and automation while ensuring compliant handling of PHI and PII data.

Develop and maintain backend software using C# and T-SQL, focusing on import functionality, performance optimization, utility and migration tooling. Responsibilities include test-first development, design and code reviews, debugging, integration and deployment, documentation, collaboration with product management, and on-call support. The role requires strong software engineering practices, scalability and security awareness, regulatory compliance, and independent execution of complex tasks.

Build, deploy, and own scalable consumer applications and services for a digital lending platform, with a focus on React frontend development. Responsibilities include designing features, automated testing, full software development lifecycle participation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, system scalability and reliability, technical debt reduction, mentoring frontend engineers, and using AI-driven coding agents and agentic workflows.

Design and build Go-based storage control-plane services, CSI drivers, integrations, and tooling for Kubernetes AI and compute workloads. Automate storage provisioning using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps tools, support hybrid and bare-metal deployments, and develop observability for performance and reliability. Integrate enterprise storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale and VAST across cloud, edge, and air-gapped environments, including K0rdent, Cluster API, Harbor, and PKI/TLS infrastructure.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering backend-focused member and care team experiences. The role partners with product and clinical teams, sets technical direction, builds scalable and secure systems, maintains high-quality tested code, mentors engineers, and guides architecture across the stack. Responsibilities include API design, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build and operate full-stack internal web applications and conversational AI bots using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Elasticsearch, Kibana, LLMs, RAG, and vector search. Responsibilities include technical design, development, testing, CI/CD deployment, feature flag management, production operations, and on-call support. The role also involves replacing legacy SaaS tools, integrating Elastic Stack capabilities, and using AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, modular designs; write well-tested code; lead design and code reviews; guide agile sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also contributes to technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes engineering best practices.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable distributed systems, shipping high-impact features, and building AI-powered tools for a virtual healthcare platform. The role includes mentoring engineers, partnering with product and clinical leadership, translating user needs into technical solutions, and guiding frontend and backend application development in a fast-paced startup environment.