$120k - $160k
Modern .NET), you will play a key role in building new web-based ERP products for county and city governments. This is a senior, backend- focused individual contributor role with meaningful ownership and influence. You w…
Engineering & IT · Kansas City, MO
Backend Developer jobs in Kansas City, MO
Backend developers build the server-side logic, APIs, and data layers that applications run on. The job is designing services that stay correct, fast, and secure as usage grows.
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$33–$86/hr
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$115k
Median, full-time
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$195.5k - $278.3k
platform that lets Cboe's Operations and Engineering organizations operate at 10x their current capacity: a centralized Docker/Kubernetes backend hosting a growing fleet of AI agents, built and continuously extended with…
$141.2k - $278.3k
process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at ****@*****.***. Recruiting tips From developing a stand out resume to putting your best foot forward in the interview, we want you to feel prepared…
$148.75k - $192.5k
focuses on modeling a diverse set of financial instruments and includes portfolio analysis. You will work within a team of seasoned developers, technologists, and quants all with deep experience in financial markets and…
$148.75k - $192.5k
communication skills, including working effectively with engineers, security, and operations teams. Interest in continuous learning and in developing the engineers around you. Benefits and PerksWe value the total wellbei…
$77k - $202k
break down complex concepts.Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy. Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.Use re…
$110.7k - $218.3k
process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at ****@*****.***. Recruiting tips From developing a stand out resume to putting your best foot forward in the interview, we want you to feel prepared…
$116.2k - $229.1k
process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at ****@*****.***. Recruiting tips From developing a stand out resume to putting your best foot forward in the interview, we want you to feel prepared…
$70.8k - $156.7k
Full Stack .NET Developer - Local to Kansas City Position Description This position is located at our client site five days a week in Overland Park, KS This position is for a highly skilled and hands on Full Stack .NET D…
service-based businesses and dental practices throughout the United States. Our agency website has already been designed in Figma and developed in WordPress. However, the live implementation currently contains significan…
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What backend developers earn in Kansas City
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $33–$45 | $68k–$94k |
| Mid level | $45–$65 | $94k–$136k |
| Senior | $63–$86 | $132k–$179k |
Adjusted for the Kansas City market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
A server language (Java, Go, Python, C#)API design (REST, gRPC)SQL and schema designCaching and queuesAuthentication and securityDistributed systems basicsDocker and CI/CDObservability and logging
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design an API for a feature like comments or notifications.
Clarify requirements, then cover endpoints, data model, pagination, and error handling. Mentioning versioning and rate limits shows production experience.
How would you find and fix a slow database query?
Walk through reading the query plan, checking indexes, and considering caching or denormalization. Ground it in a query you actually fixed.
How do you keep two services consistent when both need to update data?
Discuss transactions, idempotency, and eventual consistency with outbox or saga patterns. Acknowledge tradeoffs rather than promising perfect consistency.
What do you monitor on a service you own?
Name the basics — latency, error rate, saturation — plus business-level signals. Bonus points for talking about alerts you tuned to reduce noise.
Tell me about a production incident you handled.
Structure it: detection, mitigation, root cause, prevention. Emphasize what changed afterward, not just the firefight.
How do you approach securing an API?
Cover authentication, authorization, input validation, and secrets handling. Naming OWASP-style risks concretely is enough; you are not expected to be a security engineer.
When would you choose a message queue over a direct call?
Talk about decoupling, retries, and absorbing spikes, and be honest about the added complexity of async debugging.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For backend developers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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State scale where you can: requests per second, data volume, or number of services — it is the fastest way to signal seniority.
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Name the databases and infrastructure you ran in production, not just languages.
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Describe reliability work — migrations without downtime, incident reduction, test coverage on critical paths.
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If you designed an API others consume, say so and note how many teams or clients depend on it.
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Avoid listing every framework you have touched; two stacks with depth read better than eight without.
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Where this role goes
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