Top Software Engineer Jobs in St. Louis, MO

Leads architecture and technical direction for complex Adobe Experience Manager solutions and digital experience engagements. Translates business and technical requirements into scalable designs, guides engineering delivery, governs architecture quality, manages technical risks, supports presales and client consulting, and mentors engineers. The role covers discovery through deployment, including integrations, performance, security, maintainability, estimates, design reviews, and implementation governance. Travel of up to 40% may be required.

Build and maintain full-stack features using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, from database design through user interfaces. Develop APIs, background jobs, automated tests, and PostgreSQL queries; review code, troubleshoot production issues, and improve CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and client stakeholders to scope and ship iterative releases. The role also involves dependency upgrades, technical-debt reduction, and responsible use of AI coding assistants.

Principal Engineer serving as the CTO’s technical deputy, leading day-to-day engineering execution, architecture, code reviews, developer support, and delivery. The role requires hands-on full-stack development across databases, backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps. It also champions AI-agent-assisted development by establishing workflows, guardrails, and quality standards. The engineer will mentor teammates, resolve technical blockers, improve reliability and documentation, and collaborate with technical, product, and research stakeholders.

Leads Nooks’ software engineering organization, technical vision, AI strategy, government contract delivery, internal platform, architecture, and technology investment. Builds and scales the engineering team, establishes outcome-based operating practices, oversees delivery economics and customer relationships, drives AI adoption and governance, and supports federal software pursuits. Partners with executive leadership, Growth, Operations, IT/Cyber, Product, and Finance while representing engineering to government customers.

Build and operate reliable backend systems for complex government and enterprise data integrations. Responsibilities include designing bidirectional integrations, asynchronous workflows, retries, idempotency, observability, operational automation, debugging production systems, and creating reusable reliability patterns. The role involves TypeScript and Node.js development, database work, partner collaboration, mentoring, and improving support efficiency in a fully remote environment.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, integrations, and AI-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, validation, and quality gates. Contribute to scalable systems design, roadmap planning, and developer tooling while collaborating with distributed teams. The role focuses on improving reliability and reducing manual intervention across Chainguard’s software image factory.

Develop and operate IAM services powering Elastic Cloud and on-premises offerings. Responsibilities include backend software development, technical design, production debugging, incident response, customer issue resolution, security and reliability improvements, and on-call participation. The role involves distributed systems, containers, virtualization, microservices, cloud platforms, Kubernetes adoption, and collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Owns Salesforce enterprise architecture, platform strategy, integrations, governance, data architecture, DevOps, and nonprofit technology modernization. Designs and develops solutions across NPSP, Nonprofit Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce, and Einstein AI. Leads architecture reviews, code quality, migrations, release management, security, platform optimization, contractor oversight, and production issue resolution. Serves as KIPP’s senior technical authority and principal Salesforce developer, translating business needs into scalable, sustainable solutions.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for cloud data optimization products and Stratusphere’s data platform. Diagnose and improve database, query, storage, networking, and workload performance across AWS, Azure, relational, analytical, search, and lakehouse systems. Build production services, integrations, testing, observability, and infrastructure automation while safely overseeing AI-assisted development. Partner with product teams, forward-deployed engineers, and customers to validate optimizations, document tradeoffs, and convert repeatable solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

Develops and tests scalable Java web applications and reusable components throughout the agile lifecycle. Responsibilities include SOAP and REST web services, unit and acceptance testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, load testing, performance tuning, continuous improvement, and sprint communication. The role requires collaboration across development and testing teams, cloud application experience, AWS, CI/CD, J2EE frameworks, and eligibility for a Public Trust clearance.