Software Engineer Sr Specialist (Sales & Marketing Tech)

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

TheSoftware Engineer Sr Specialistserves as a hands-on technical leader supporting Sales and Marketing Technology. This role designs builds and oversees scalable secure and integrated solutions across SaaS platforms custom applications and AI-enabled capabilities. The Sr Specialist actively develops production solutions while guiding technical direction mentoring engineers and influencing architecture decisionsparticularly around the responsible adoption of AI.

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 end-to-end solutions across applications integrations AI security and operations.

• Lead technical solution design and act as a key advisor on architecture patterns and standards.

• Drive practical and responsible adoption of AI within Sales and Marketing workflows.

• Evaluate SaaS platforms APIs and vendors; support POCs and technical governance reviews.

• Maintain the health and effectiveness of the existing tech stackbyresolving issues thatemergefacilitatingrequired maintenance andeliminatingtech debt.

• Partner with engineering security enterprise architecture and vendors to deliver scalable solutions.

• Mentor developers through design reviews implementation guidance and knowledge sharing

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Bachelorsdegree in ComputerScience Information Technology or related field or equivalent professional experiencedemonstratingadvanced software engineer and architectural capability

• At least 8 years software engineering experience with strong architectural judgment

• At least 3yearsoperatingwith clear architectural responsibility such as: Owning solution design (not just implementing tickets). Making integration and platform decisions.Evaluating SaaS/vendorarchitectures. Balancing delivery speed withlong-termscalability and security

• Hands-on experience with modern application stacks (Java/Spring JavaScript/TypeScript React ).

• Strong integration experience (API-driven and service-basedarchitectures).

• Experience designing and integrating SaaS solutions including Salesforce ecosystems (API and data flow knowledge).

• Working knowledge of applied AI/automation and integrating AI services into business workflows.

• Cloud-native experience (containers Kubernetes/OpenShift CI/CD observability tools).

• Strong communicationskills with the ability to translate technical decisions into business impact

• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused Courageous and Accountable Collaborative Curious and Adaptable Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Experience in regulated or risk-sensitive environments.

• Participation in architecture review boards or cross-domain technical leadership forums.

• Experience leading vendor evaluations RFPs or technical POCs.

• Familiarity with identity and access management (e.g. Okta RBAC MFA).

• Experience contributing to AI governance standards or reusable engineering patterns.

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