Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in St. Louis, MO

Build, maintain, and steward open source cloud-native software for defense environments. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, reviewing code, managing releases, engaging open source communities, resolving technical ambiguity, documenting systems, making architecture decisions, improving security and interoperability, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong Go development, Kubernetes and cloud architecture expertise, collaboration with contributors and users, and participation in ecosystem standards and projects.

Develops high-quality software and AI-powered prototypes for national security missions. Responsibilities include architectural design, feature development, automated testing, backlog grooming, sprint execution, API and SDK development, integration debugging, and research involving LLMs, embeddings, and smaller trained models. The engineer independently leads focused efforts while collaborating with product and engineering teams, using modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend software systems. Owns significant features end to end, makes architectural decisions, improves scalability and performance, ensures code quality, mentors engineers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Builds production-ready C# and .NET APIs within microservices and containerized environments, using cloud databases and services. Participates in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservices environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI services. Optimize performance, implement responsive user interfaces, troubleshoot systems, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with AI/ML engineers and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Own the architecture and delivery of major backend services and long-term engineering initiatives. Design scalable, dependable transaction-heavy systems, write technical proposals, assess business impact, and collaborate with product teams. Use and validate AI coding tools, coach engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, and message brokers, with remote work from the US or Canada.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, dependable platform features from concept through release. Creates technical design proposals, evaluates business impacts, uses and validates AI-assisted code, coaches engineers, contributes to technical roadmaps, and partners with product teams to align engineering work with business needs.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Build and scale full-stack financial product experiences for OnePay’s employer benefits platform. Lead technical design, establish architectural and coding standards, optimize systems for reliability, security, performance, and scalability, and make technical decisions balancing rapid delivery with sustainable solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver features across web, iOS, and Android using distributed systems, APIs, and modern frontend technologies.

Designs, develops, and supports scalable, highly available software applications across digital channels. Responsibilities include architectural design, coding, code reviews, agile Scrum participation, story creation, technical solution evaluation, production monitoring, and mentoring engineers. The role requires full-stack development using React and Python, cloud and distributed systems experience, CI/CD deployment across OpenShift and GCP, database and API expertise, and strong software quality, security, and performance practices.

Design, build, test, and deliver complex customer-facing software features and services for Slate’s digital platform. Own technical approaches, quality, APIs, cloud-based web services, integrations, and trade-off decisions. Collaborate with product and UX teams, conduct code and design reviews, identify risks, coordinate work, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

Lead the architecture and development of Green Dot’s cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and integrations; guide CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and compliance practices; lead incident response and architectural decisions; reduce technical debt; mentor engineers; and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable banking and payment solutions.

Develop and deploy responsive full-stack web applications from design through production. Translate product requirements into high-quality software, maintain pixel-perfect design standards, collaborate with product, design, and QA, and help guide technology strategy. The role acts as a technical lead on product initiatives and reports to the CTO, with a focus on AI-native development and secure fintech workflows.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Vanta’s third-party risk management products, including vendor onboarding, lifecycle management, monitoring workflows, data models, and platform abstractions. Write tested code, participate in reviews and architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing functionality. Experience with TypeScript, React or Node.js, web applications, databases, and REST or GraphQL APIs is expected.

Design and develop scalable enterprise software for the Lending team. Build backend systems using .NET, Python, relational and NoSQL databases, messaging systems, Docker, and AWS. Plan, triage, and prioritize work while applying object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, domain-driven design, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture practices.

Build and ship full-stack product features using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, and Vue.js. Scale Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, develop Selenium-based test and workflow automation, integrate APIs and CI/CD pipelines, and improve monitoring and observability. Collaborate with customers, clinical stakeholders, and internal teams to analyze workflows and deliver production-ready solutions in healthcare technology environments.

Build and evolve developer-facing trading APIs, lead backend projects end to end, design scalable systems, support new chains and bridges, improve reliability and performance, investigate onchain transaction failures, participate in on-call, and collaborate with product, legal, GTM, and customers. The role requires deep DeFi and EVM expertise, strong system design skills, and ownership in a remote environment.

Lead the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of PlayStation’s real-time analytics platform. Build scalable distributed data systems using streaming and OLAP technologies, integrate batch and streaming workloads, improve reliability and performance, and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across teams, mentors engineers, drives architecture and standards, resolves production incidents, and participates in on-call support.

Provides senior technical leadership across engineering teams by shaping architecture, guiding complex software development, mentoring engineers, and driving scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, design reviews, API and system architecture, CI/CD and tooling improvements, cross-team technical alignment, project leadership, and partnership with product and design stakeholders. The role is remote with quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Provides principal-level technical leadership across engineering teams, shaping architecture, engineering standards, scalable software solutions, and delivery practices. The role combines hands-on software development with design reviews, technical decision-making, mentoring, CI/CD and platform improvements, system reliability, and cross-team collaboration. It also partners with product and design stakeholders and may lead high-impact initiatives. Remote work is available with required quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Owns end-to-end test strategy, designs scalable backend and UI automation frameworks, integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, performs exploratory testing, and advocates for testability and reliability across engineering and product. The role requires strong programming, Kubernetes and distributed-systems knowledge, debugging ability, and cross-functional ownership in a fast-moving startup.