Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Lead complex software projects, mentor engineers, and set technical direction at Vanta while contributing to security and compliance solutions.

As a software engineer, you will enhance customer experiences and build tools for restaurant partners, focusing on payments and analytics.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and develop GenAI platforms, integrate LLMs, mentor engineers, and solve technical challenges for scalable solutions.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Lead design and implementation of the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers. Build buyer tooling, matching/ranking engines, and seller experiences. Architect and operate microservices and Kafka-driven systems on Kubernetes/AWS, instrument observability, apply AI tooling across the SDLC, and drive cross-functional delivery from 0-to-1 while owning end-to-end outcomes.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Build and scale full-stack systems to improve provider onboarding and supply; design distributed, maintainable services; lead high-priority projects; mentor engineers; integrate AI-assisted and LLM-based features; drive provider-facing product quality and reliability.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Build software at Coinbase while responsibly using and integrating generative AI copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean). Continuously learn evolving tools, apply human-in-the-loop practices, and deliver business-ready outputs that improve efficiency, cost, and quality. Participate in quarterly in-person working sessions as part of a remote-first culture.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

Lead UI architecture and design for responsive web applications; build reusable components with Angular/React/Vue and TypeScript/JavaScript; integrate UIs with RESTful microservices; enforce accessibility, security, testing, and CI/CD standards; mentor developers and collaborate with UX, backend, and DevOps teams in Agile environments.

Lead design and delivery of full-stack, AI-powered products and platform capabilities. Own technically complex, mission-critical areas end-to-end, partner with product and customer teams, scale data ingestion and APIs, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality and velocity.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for mobile app infrastructure, owning shared components (design system, networking, CI/CD, observability, releases, tooling). Collaborate cross-functionally, set code/design standards, ensure operational readiness and on-call processes, mentor engineers, and drive large, business-impacting projects and migrations across the JS↔native boundary.

Lead design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable Java-based microservices in a cloud-native, event-driven AWS environment. Own backend feature design, code quality, automated testing, and FedRAMP release processes. Mentor engineers, participate in on-call/TechOps, integrate AI tools into development, and drive architecture, observability, and cross-team initiatives.

The Senior Search Engineer will focus on improving the search system for Vannevar's product, collaborating with engineers to leverage full-text search and emerging technologies, and enhancing user experience by improving search latency and relevance.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Design and build agent-powered mission consoles, collaborate with stakeholders to improve user workflows, and maintain agentic workflows for mission outcomes.

Lead long-term technical strategy and execution across multiple teams, architecting and evolving foundational frontend/backend systems and platforms at massive scale. Drive AI/ML adoption, solve ambiguous, high-impact problems, remain hands-on in critical system design and implementation, and align senior leaders on roadmaps and engineering standards.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

Design, scope, prototype, and deliver backend and full-stack features for the Retail Grocery platform. Make technical decisions, deploy AI-native experiences, engage directly with customers and iterate quickly to meet retail needs.

Design, develop, test, and deploy Go and Python microservices for a B2B financial platform. Collaborate cross-functionally, support client onboarding and documentation, build automations, monitor system reliability, and later transition to product development or team lead responsibilities.