Software Engineer
Job Location:
Kansas City, KS - USA
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Job Summary
About Us
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Ourexpertisespans global equities and fixed income multi-asset strategies ETFs and private investments.
Privately controlled and independent we focus solely on investment management. Buttheresan unexpected side to us too. We direct 40% of our dividends every yearover$2 billionsince 2000to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institutes breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. So the better we do for our clients the more we can do for everyone.
All 1400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows inthe curiositywe bring to every initiative the deep relationships we build with our clients and the way we treat each other in the hallway. Ifyoureexcited to learn more about us wecantwait to learn more about you.
Role Summary
The Software Engineer Sr. Specialist serves as ahandson technical leadersupporting Sales and Marketing Technology. This role designs builds and evolves scalable secure and integrated solutions across SaaS platforms (including Salesforce) custom applications integrations and applied AI capabilities.
This role isideal for a senior developer who enjoys building production systems and guiding other engineers and who is ready to take on increased technical leadership and progressively expand into broader solution design and architectural responsibility over time. You donotneed to come into the roleasa formalarchitect but you should be comfortable leading technical decisions for complex features integrations or systems.
The Sr. Specialist actively develops production solutions while mentoring engineers improving platform quality and influencing technical directionparticularly around practical responsible use of AI within Sales and Marketing workflows.
This role reports to IT Manager - Software Engineering - Application Delivery.
This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City Missouri office.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants mustbe authorized towork in the U.S. without visa sponsorship now or in the future.
How You Will Make an Impact
Design and build endtoend solutions across applications integrations AI security and operations
Lead technical design for complex features and integrations collaborating with architecture and platform teams as needed
Actively contribute highquality code while guiding other engineers through reviews pairing and design discussions
Help establish shared technical patterns practices and guardrails that allow the team to move faster safely
Drive practical responsible application of AI to improve workflows insights and developer productivity
Evaluate SaaS platforms APIs and tools; contribute to POCs and technical recommendations
Maintain and evolve the health of the existing tech stack by reducing technical debt and improving reliability observability and performance
Partner with engineering security enterprise architecture and vendors to deliver scalable and compliant solutions
Examples of impact may include Salesforce integrations APIdriven services middlewarebased workflows data pipelines eventbased architectures or AIassisted automation embedded into existing platforms.
What We Mean by Technical Leadership
Technical leadership in this role is demonstrated through action and ownership not just title. This includes:
Owning challenging problems from design through implementation
Making pragmatic tradeoffs and clearly communicating technical decisions
Improving systems incrementally ratherthan overengineeringup front
Mentoring engineers and helping raise the overall technical bar
Knowing when to proceed independently vs. when to seek architectural or security guidance
What You Bring to the Team (Required)
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field or equivalent professional experience
8 years of software engineering experience
Demonstrated experience leading technical solutions for complex features integrations or systems (as a senior engineer staff engineer tech lead or similar role)
Strong handson development experience with modern application stacks (Java/Spring JavaScript/TypeScript React or similar)
Experience designing consuming and troubleshooting APIs in servicebased or eventdriven architectures
Handson experience developing on or integrating with Salesforce (Apex Lightning Web Components APIs)orstrong experience integrating enterprise platforms into Salesforcecentric ecosystems
Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused Courageous and Accountable Collaborative Curious and Adaptable Competitively Driven.
Applied AI & Automation
Experience applying AI tools or services to realworld workflows (e.g. automation insights content assistance developer productivity)or
Strong interest and demonstrated curiosity in learning andresponsiblyapplying AI
Awareness of considerations such as data handling security quality and rollout risk
Willingness to partner with security and architecture teamswhereAI usage impacts governance or compliance
Ownership of enterprisewide AI strategy isnot requiredthis role focuses on practical application and learning.
Additional Assets (Preferred)
Experience working in regulated or risksensitive environments
Salesforce experience across Sales Cloud Marketing Cloud Data Cloud or related platforms
Middleware or integration platform experience (e.g. MuleSoft Informatica)
Cloudnative development experience (containers Kubernetes/OpenShift CI/CD)
Observability tooling experience (e.g. Datadog Prometheus Grafana)
Prior participation in architecture reviews platform standards discussions or technical governance forums
Why This Role Is Different
This is neither a purely architectural role nor a ticketonly delivery role.
Its an opportunity for a senior engineer who:
Wants to stay handson
Enjoys mentoring and guiding others
Is ready to expand technical leadership and architectural influence over time
Wants to work on meaningful Sales and Marketing platforms including thoughtful AI adoption
If youre already leading technical decisions informally and looking for a role that supports your growth into broader ownership this role is designed for you.
The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities duties and skills.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
Generous PTO and competitive benefits
401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
Tuition reimbursement formal mentorship program live and online learning
Employeesare required tobe in the office on a scheduledfrequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed tocomplying withthe Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process please send a request to All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially aspracticable.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race religious creed color sex national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status gender gender identity gender expression age for individuals forty years of age and older military and veteran status sexual orientation and any other basis protected by applicable federal state and local laws. ACI does notdiscriminateor adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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About Company
American Century Investments is a leading asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Since our founding in 1958, American Century Investments believes that we succ ... View more
