Keyhole

Software

We’re a team of passionate software professionals who love to learn, solve tough problems, and build great solutions for our clients.

At Keyhole Software, you won’t just be coding—you’ll be part of a collaborative, tight-knit group that values curiosity, autonomy, and growth.

Our Developer-Focused Culture Matters To Us.

With more than 90 employees and an average tenure of 5+ years, every software developer or operations team member was hand-selected to join the Keyhole Software team.

Team-Based

At Keyhole, we’re consultants – we work with clients. But we’re all W2 employees. That means that you have a tight-knit, employee-based development team supporting you to succeed no matter your project.

Developer-Focused

The Keyhole company culture focuses on long-term professional growth. We ask questions, share expertise, and seek to truly help our clients. When a project ends, you're on to the next project within the company that adds to your skills.

Get To Know Us

The Keyhole team likes working with technologies.

But that's only the beginning of what makes us a team...

We Like To Learn From Our Team

So we get together for Lunch&Learns or Tech Nights every six weeks. One person presents on a technical topic to the group - everyone learns. Plus, food, drinks, and great discussion.

We Like To Learn From The Community

So we participate in various dev conferences each year, often attending, speaking, and sponsoring. Some of our favorites include Dev Up, Nebraska.Code, and KCDC. Some of our team speak internationally!

We Like To Teach

So our folks often participate as speakers at conferences, development user groups, and public Keyhole events. Speakers can test run talks to the team for peer review and constructive feedback!

We Like Holidays

So we celebrate lots of them, even the silly ones (like National Hot Dog Day) or make our own (like Chip-a-Palooza). Then of course there's Cinco De Mayo, Thanksgiving, Festivus...

We Like To Write

So we write white papers, tutorials, and weekly blog post about any topic that we find interesting - 450+ to date. See our employee blog here.

We Like Supporting Charity

So our team gives back to charity organizations each holiday season. We vote to find the charity our team wants to support; Operation Breakthrough for KC kids has been chosen the last few years.

We Like Family Picnics

So we host an annual family picnic with bounce house, face painting, hamster wheel, and balloon animals!

We Like Playing Sports

So we participate in KC Corporate Challenge and Bike MS each year.

We Like Happy Hours

So we created the Keyhole Homebrew Group and often have company happy hours.

What Employees Say

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Hear From Them

Why Choose Keyhole?

We provide high-quality software development services for our clients. But how we do it makes all the difference: a highly technical team focused entirely on software development. In fact, less than 10 people in the entire company are not working directly on software projects.

Our goal as a company is to support our employees in their success. We prioritize our employees—getting to know them as individuals, treating them well, promoting autonomy, and removing software blockers whenever possible.

Top-Tier Professionals

You’ll collaborate with a tight-knit group of developers passionate about the technology—and have their support and technical know how to fall back on. The Keyhole team rules.

Variety of Tech

From project to project, you get to work with different technology stacks and keep up with multiple skill sets. No more being pigeonholed into one legacy product line.

In Code, Not Politics

You get to focus on what you love to do – staying in the code, trying new tech, making suggestions, and helping projects succeed. Your variety of experience makes you an asset, so you often get to stay out of the red tape.

Professional Growth

You have the opportunity to experience every business domain and tech stack. The more you learn, the better dev you become. Well-rounded developers abound.

Quotes From Our Folks

With more than 90 employees and an average tenure of 5+ years, every software developer or operations team member was hand-selected to join the Keyhole Software team.

"Keyhole’s technical culture is all about offering up learning and growing opportunities. A key question asked repeatedly of us consultants is, 'What would you like to learn so you can use it on upcoming projects?' We stay on the bleeding edge and figure out the next technology our customer base might want to pursue. This strategy gives us consultants the chance to learn and add new skills to our toolbelt that we can offer up to future clients."

Kent Lautenschlager Employee Since 2014

"Earlier in my career, I worked with several people who had later joined Keyhole—people that I respected for their work ethic and knowledge. Those existing relationships drew me to look deeper into the company.

I've been with Keyhole for 10 years now. While the company has seen significant growth, the core values remain the same. I've felt connected and challenged by my team every step of the way."

John Hoestje Employee Since 2013

"Keyhole earned my attention with its personal yet professional approach to a software development career. One thing I’ve gained from software consulting is a lot of flexibility. I have the flexibility to learn new technologies, experience new work environments with each client, and have the support of a fantastic company behind the scenes."

Josh Green Employee Since 2018

Meet Our Leadership

Frequently-Asked Questions

We’re proud to have a 4.8/5 rating on Glassdoor and an average employee tenure of five years and growing, which we attribute to several factors.

Our company culture is exceptionally developer-centric, as just ten people in the firm are not working on software projects. Our team unites software developers and architects from various technology and industry backgrounds, and our culture promotes collaboration, continual learning, and innovation.
We prioritize our employees—getting to know them as individuals, treating them well, promoting autonomy, and removing software blockers whenever possible. In our ever-changing industry, discussion and questions are encouraged, and the goal is to provide the best services to our clients as a team.
Furthermore, we assign individuals to challenging projects tailored to their interests and talents, keeping them engaged and learning. They have the long-term stability of being trusted and supported employees while also experiencing the technical and industry variety that allows them to be challenged consistently.

It's hard to pinpoint what a 'typical' project looks like because every single one is so different. In general, a team of 2-7 Keyhole employees assists clients. This can be anything from a modernization initiative, project recovery, application enhancement, greenfield development, or brownfield development.

We prefer team-based consulting as it is not a lone-wolf scenario, so you have ample support and a better environment. You can see an example of some of our projects here.

At Keyhole Software, we’re consultants – we work with clients. But we’re all employees of Keyhole. Additionally, we do not offer Contract To Hire.

Our employees are with us over multiple client projects and are looking to have a long-term engagement with a company while not looking for the technological sameness of staying in the same position for years on end. Our passionate, tight-knit employee development team of ~100 surrounding you & supporting you to succeed in projects.

What Benefits Are Available?

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