The Top Software Companies in Kansas City (2026)

I have spent my whole career building software in Kansas City. I co-founded VinSolutions here, the number one customer relationship management (CRM) platform in the auto industry, and bootstrapped it to $35 million in annual revenue before it sold for $147 million. After that I started Stackify, a developer tools company, and sold it in 2021. Today I run Full Scale out of Leawood, and I recruit engineers against most of the companies on this list.

So this isn’t a list I pulled off a directory. It’s the local software scene as someone who has hired in it, sold in it, and competed in it for twenty years sees it.

Kansas City is a real software town, not a flyover one. The KC Tech Council’s 2025 Tech Specs report found that tech now drives close to a tenth of the metro’s economy, with more than 225,000 technology professionals working across Kansas and Missouri. That’s a deep bench, and the companies below are the ones drawing from it.

Here are the top software companies in Kansas City worth knowing in 2026.

The top software companies in Kansas City

1. Full Scale

Full Scale is the company I run, so I’ll be upfront about the bias and quick about the pitch. We’re headquartered in Leawood, and we help companies build software teams through staff augmentation services, placing senior engineers from the Philippines directly onto their teams. We’re not a project shop or a site full of freelancers, and there’s no account manager sitting between you and the developer.

We have a team of more than 350, keep developer retention at 93 percent, and have made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies four years running. The reason we exist is sitting in the rest of this list: every good company in Kansas City is fighting over the same small pool of senior engineers, and most of them can’t hire fast enough.

2. Garmin

Garmin is the giant of the group. Headquartered in Olathe with more than 10,000 employees, it builds the GPS and wearable technology you find in cars, planes, boats, and on a lot of wrists. People think of Garmin as a hardware company, but it runs one of the largest software organizations in the region, with embedded engineers, mobile app teams, and cloud platforms behind every device.

For a local engineer, Garmin is often the first stop. It hires software developers at every level out of Olathe, year round.

3. Oracle Health (formerly Cerner)

Cerner was Kansas City’s tech anchor for decades, and it’s still here under a new name. Oracle bought Cerner in a $28 billion deal that closed in 2022, and the electronic health record (EHR) business now operates as Oracle Health out of its North Kansas City campus.

The footprint is smaller than it was at Cerner’s peak, but the work is still some of the most serious software in the city. Oracle Health’s systems run patient records for a huge share of US hospitals.

4. C2FO

C2FO is one of Kansas City’s homegrown fintech success stories. Based in Leawood and running an online marketplace for working capital, it lets companies free up cash from their own invoices instead of taking on debt. The platform moves real money at real scale, which means the engineering has to be solid.

With somewhere between 500 and 1,000 employees, C2FO is proof you can build a serious financial technology company from the middle of the country.

5. AMC Theatres

AMC is the largest movie theater chain in the world, and most people don’t realize how much software sits behind that. It’s also a Full Scale client, so I know the engineering org well. You can read the whole story in our AMC Theatres case study.

Headquartered in Leawood, AMC runs one of the largest movie-ticketing platforms anywhere, plus the app and loyalty program tens of millions of moviegoers use. Their CIO, Derrick Leggett, built a global engineering team where developers in the Philippines are treated as full AMC engineers. As he puts it, “It’s a fully integrated team. It’s just some of the people happen to be living in the Philippines.”

6. H&R Block

H&R Block is the household name that’s quietly turning into a software company. From its downtown Kansas City headquarters, it has been pouring money into digital tax platforms and AI-driven tools, and it now competes for the same engineers as the fintech startups across town.

Tax software is harder than it looks. The rules change every year, the stakes are high, and millions of people use it during a few intense weeks. That’s a real engineering problem, and H&R Block has a large team working on it locally.

7. SS&C Technologies

SS&C Technologies is a global financial-software company with a large and stable presence in Kansas City. It builds the software that investment firms, fund managers, and insurers use to run their operations, the kind of behind-the-scenes systems that move trillions of dollars without most people ever seeing them.

For engineers who want to work on financial technology without joining a startup, SS&C is one of the steadiest options in town.

8. Velociti

Velociti is a Kansas City transportation-technology company with more than 500 employees. It builds fleet-management technology, the systems that keep trucks, equipment, and logistics operations running efficiently for a customer base that includes Fortune 500 companies.

Its VeloCare offering pairs monitoring software with repair services, so the technology keeps working long after it’s installed. It’s a good example of the kind of specialized, industry-specific software company Kansas City does well.

9. DSI

DSI is a Kansas City supply-chain software company that builds cloud-based and on-premise inventory management tools. Its platforms give companies real-time visibility into their supply chain, from the warehouse shelf all the way out to the field.

Supply-chain software became a lot more interesting to executives after the disruptions of the last few years, and DSI sits right in that space, helping clients across industries track inventory and stay compliant.

10. NetStandard

NetStandard rounds out the list as a Kansas City managed IT services company. It handles cloud computing, virtual servers, and IT management for small and mid-sized businesses that don’t have the budget or appetite to run all of it in-house.

Its MyAppsAnywhere services give those companies enterprise-grade infrastructure for a predictable monthly fee. NetStandard is the kind of company that keeps the rest of the local business community running.

Every company on this list is fighting for the same engineers

Here’s the thing that connects all ten.

They are all competing for the same scarce pool of senior engineers, and most of them can’t hire fast enough.

I’ve watched this from every seat. As a founder, I had roles sit open for weeks while a recruiter quoted me a 25 percent fee just to make the introduction. As the CEO of a staffing company, I now talk to local engineering leaders every week who are stuck in the same spot. Kansas City has good engineers, but it does not have enough of them, and the big names on this list, Garmin, Oracle Health, H&R Block, soak up a lot of the supply.

That’s the gap Full Scale was built to fill. We help companies add senior developers from the Philippines who join their team, their standups, and their codebase like any other engineer. The math works because it’s cost-of-living arbitrage, not skill arbitrage. A senior developer in the US runs $150,000 to $185,000 in base salary before you add benefits and overhead. Loaded cost typically runs 1.25 to 1.4 times base, which pushes a senior hire past $200,000 all in.

One warning, though, and it’s the most common mistake I see. If your only reason for going offshore is to find the cheapest developer you can, you’ll get burned. I call it cheapshoring, and it’s how good companies end up swearing off offshore after one bad experience. The goal isn’t the cheapest body. It’s a real engineer who sticks around, which is the whole idea behind my book, Product Driven, and how we run teams.

Building your own team in Kansas City?

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