2021 has already been a huge year for Chicago tech growth.
In July alone, local tech companies, including no-code risk and compliance platform LogicGate and fintech startup M1 Finance, raked in a combined $654 million in fresh capital.
But these are just a couple of the frontrunners shaping the city’s tech landscape. Among the thousands of companies that call Chicago home, many of them are expanding their employee bases to keep up with this transformation.
With open roles spanning departments such as design, engineering, sales and HR, companies across the city are gearing up for a fast-paced future.
Take a look at our pick of the top local companies to watch and check out their open roles.
Founded: 2008
What they do: Productive Edge offers digital transformation services in an effort to help companies scale and elevate the customer experience. From intelligent process automation to early-stage blockchain assessment, the organization’s suite of solutions are designed to help companies thrive in the digital space.
Their tech stack: When it comes to database work, engineers lean on MySQL and AngularJS, while framework development involves Ember.js and Hadoop. Commonly used languages include Java, Python and Ruby.
Founded: 2017
What they do: Cribl aims to help companies solve customer data challenges and enable customer choice. The organization’s observability pipeline, LogStream, is designed to cut costs, improve performance and put the right data in the proper formats.
What’s new: Earlier this year, the startup announced it had raised $200 million in a Series C funding round, with plans to use the extra capital to further bolster its observability capabilities. In a statement, the company’s CEO and co-founder Clint Sharp said, “This isn’t a ‘better’ or ‘faster’ version of what’s in the market — it’s an entirely new, open architecture for observability.”
