Top Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Architect, implement, and optimize cloud-based solutions; mentor junior engineers; design and deploy automated, production-grade systems; monitor cloud health and resolve incidents; apply cloud security best practices and healthcare compliance to ensure reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. Implement IaC, improve CI/CD, observability, and automation. Lead incident response, reliability, and DevSecOps practices. Mentor engineers, drive platform standardization, document runbooks, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems and remediation of systemic infrastructure issues.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.

Designs and develops scalable customer-facing web applications and microservices APIs. Leads complex system architecture, performs code reviews, mentors engineers, defines technical implementations, and guides engineering vision. Maintains sustainable business systems, supports compliance initiatives, and improves development processes. The role requires Java and Spring experience, cloud technologies, relational databases, REST and event-driven architectures, containerization, front-end development, and software lifecycle expertise.

Design and implement core payment infrastructure components (workflow engines, partner integrations, ledgering, public APIs). Collaborate with technical leadership on architecture, own projects end-to-end, and shape engineering culture at an early-stage fintech startup.

Design, build, and scale GraphQL and gRPC APIs and SQL queries powering the sportsbook marketplace. Own end-to-end feature delivery, performance diagnostics and remediation, release and deployment windows, monitoring in DataDog, and on-call rotations. Mentor peers, draft technical proposals/specs, and improve platform scalability through load testing, tracing, and production hygiene.

Build and ship production-grade features across frontend and backend, scope and lead projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to product and technical roadmap using the company tech stack.

Build, maintain, and operate Mission Control web app and supporting microservices for satellite operations. Implement HTTP APIs, design and deploy infrastructure, automate workflows, ensure CI/CD and testing, collaborate with cross-functional teams to support spacecraft scheduling, telemetry, and operational needs.

Develop and debug low-level embedded software for mission-critical drones and docking hardware. Responsibilities include Linux kernel development, device drivers, system bring-up, bootloader customization, BSP development, OS customization, firmware debugging, CI builds, and deploying stable operating system builds to physical devices. The role collaborates with electrical engineering, QA, cloud teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to ensure hardware and software reliability.

Develop full-stack solutions using TypeScript and AWS cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building GraphQL APIs, business logic libraries, AWS Lambda functions with CDK, AWS Glue automation, and Angular/Ionic user interfaces. The engineer will also support CI/CD, Git repositories, linting, developer workflows, requirements management, and HIPAA-compliant software development. Collaboration with engineers, management, and business analysts is required.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable AI-forward APIs, MCPs, and services for Microsoft 365. Lead features from concept through launch, write reusable code, document designs, estimate work, and support production services through on-call responsibilities. Improve reliability, performance, and scalability while mentoring engineers and establishing technical best practices across teams.

Execute scheduled, ad hoc, and release-milestone software tests; review test cases; report defects in issue-tracking systems; communicate status in standups; and collaborate with software test managers and development teams. The role requires knowledge of QA methodologies, black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing, strong communication and organization, independent and team-based work, and participation in planning and professional meetings.

Design and deliver scalable control-plane and management services for Azure Storage at hyperscale. Lead architecture, reliability, and performance work for storage platforms that support AI workloads, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and own system health, incident response, and long-term technical roadmaps.

Design and build distributed storage systems optimized for AI and machine learning workloads at hyperscale. Lead architecture, development, testing, deployment, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency initiatives for zettabyte-scale Azure storage. Collaborate with AI researchers and cloud infrastructure teams, mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and solve complex problems involving availability, durability, replication, high-performance I/O, metadata, indexing, caching, and data placement.

Build and own backend, data architecture, and integrations for operations. Replace manual workflows with automations and AI agents, ship internal tools, ensure reliable data flows, monitoring, and documentation, and support production systems used by ops.

Own operations and reliability for hyperscale Azure GPU clusters and interconnect fabrics. Lead production incident triage, mitigation, recovery, root-cause analysis, and cross-stack debugging across hardware, GPUs, PCIe, firmware, drivers, and software. Develop automation, telemetry, diagnostics, playbooks, and escalation frameworks to improve observability, operational readiness, and mean time to mitigation for large-scale AI and HPC workloads.

Provides cross-functional architectural guidance across product areas, identifies technical risks and debt, makes design decisions, and translates architecture into executable engineering work. The role establishes coding and testing standards, mentors engineers, supports production applications, and owns build and release pipelines. The engineer also contributes to requirements, code reviews, security practices, automated testing, technical debt reduction, and reliable delivery across multiple codebases.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Lead design and implementation of the Libraries Platform: services, pipelines, and package index to build, verify, and serve secure reproducible libraries. Automate artifact creation, CVE remediation, SBOM/provenance generation, AI-assisted patching, and operate registry/mirroring, CI/CD integrations, reliability, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain backend services and core APIs (primarily Scala). Collaborate on architecture, improve system reliability, and deliver production software for legal AI products.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Pipeline for software engineering roles at multiple levels. Work may include design, development, testing of embedded or application software, firmware and hardware-software integration, code review, debugging, performance optimization, Agile/Scrum practices, and cross-functional collaboration with systems, controls, and hardware teams.

Serve as the senior technical engineer on a delivery team, writing production code, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, diagnosing complex issues, and owning software quality and reliability. Build TypeScript and JavaScript applications using Node.js, Express, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, testing, and observability. Modernize legacy systems, manage integrations and data synchronization, and use AI tools and automation to improve engineering workflows and delivery.