Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and maintain efficient C++ code for a high-speed trading system, including algorithm development and data analysis.

Participate in a two-day social-impact hackathon building tech solutions for nonprofits. Develop, test, and troubleshoot software; write secure code; collaborate with engineers and stakeholders; use automation and approved AI development tools responsibly; attend training and mentorship; and potentially be considered for a 2027 Software Engineer Program Summer Internship.

The Software Engineer will build new systems, enhance existing ones, and integrate with external systems, collaborating closely with developers, QA, and product managers.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop trading algorithms, collaborate with teams, and maintain the trading platform, leveraging your programming skills and problem-solving abilities.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack web and API solutions using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL. Lead architecture and DevOps efforts, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and ensure security, performance, scalability, and reliability. Troubleshoot issues, create technical documentation and diagrams, and continuously improve developer experience and engineering standards.

Contribute to modernization and technical-debt reduction efforts, implement and test features, participate in code reviews, follow CI/CD and Agile practices, and collaborate with senior engineers while learning cloud and security practices.

Lead and grow multiple product-focused engineering teams building full-stack, cloud-native, and AI-enabled solutions. Drive architecture, microservices decomposition, AWS deployments, engineering best practices, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration to deliver scalable credit experiences with partners.

Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency cloud-native microservices in Go for identity resolution and audience targeting. Own features end-to-end, optimize query and data-access paths (Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, S3), ensure reliability with observability and CI/CD, troubleshoot production incidents, enforce data quality, and collaborate with product, SRE, QA, and data teams to evolve identity and audience-domain architecture.

Develop and maintain custom options valuation and risk-management systems. Collaborate with traders, risk managers, and quants to gather requirements, design solutions, implement high-performance code, troubleshoot issues, document models and tests, and improve scalability, accuracy, and performance of pricing systems.

Develop and maintain primarily desktop full‑stack applications using .NET and SQL Server. Design, implement, test, and support solutions, troubleshoot issues, uphold software engineering best practices, and collaborate with developers and traders to deliver business-focused functionality.

Build analytical tools, dashboards, and data pipelines to measure and optimize risk across trading businesses. Partner with Risk Managers and cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy production systems for exposure analysis, scenarios, capital, liquidity, and other risk factors.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack web and mobile applications using modern JavaScript frameworks. Produce high-quality, testable code, participate in architecture and estimation, support existing client sites, follow QA and review practices, and optimize performance and scalability. Collaborate with product managers, UX, and cross-functional teams.

Develop and maintain IMC's trading platform and algorithms, collaborate with traders and researchers, learn full software lifecycle, and adopt new technologies to solve complex problems.

10-week software engineering internship working on meaningful projects, classroom training on markets and tech, mentorship, professional development, cohort events, and potential conversion to a graduate role for strong performers.

Seeking an experienced Software Engineer for developing high-performance financial trading systems. Responsibilities include full-stack development, system enhancements, and collaboration.

Seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance trading systems, focusing on enhancing strategies and tools.

Design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable Java-based applications across the SDLC. Troubleshoot complex issues, produce architecture artifacts, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, create visualizations from large data sets, and contribute to engineering best practices and team culture.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput Java/Spring Boot backend microservices using Kafka and Kubernetes. Optimize data access across distributed and relational databases (Cassandra, CockroachDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL), produce architecture artifacts, use enterprise AI coding tools responsibly, and ensure production resilience, observability, and security.

Design and develop backend RESTful APIs using microservices on AWS. Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams. Contribute to CI/CD, automated testing, cloud deployment, and operational excellence while maintaining high software quality within Agile teams.

Design, develop, and implement web-based software across the full SDLC. Analyze requirements, produce application and architectural specifications, write and review code, build UIs and single-page apps, implement microservices and REST APIs, create CI/CD pipelines, perform automated and performance testing, support production using observability tools, and participate in Agile project planning and design reviews.

Develop, own, and deploy core features across full-stack applications. Collaborate in Agile teams to design APIs, work with microservices/event-driven architectures, optimize SQL databases, debug production issues, participate in on-call rotation, and use AI tools to improve development workflows.

Lead and grow multiple product-focused engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and operate resilient, scalable full-stack and backend systems. Drive architecture decisions, microservices adoption, AWS deployments, engineering best practices, and mentor technical talent while collaborating with product managers to deliver partner-focused credit experiences.

Embed with customers to design and build end-to-end, production-quality software and LLM workflows. Collaborate on architecture, handle large-scale data and storage, develop cloud and front-end solutions, and own stakeholder relationships while traveling 25–50%.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design high-performance applications, collaborate on trading software development, optimize systems, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.

Develop and implement full stack features for a healthcare platform, focusing on both frontend (React) and backend (Node.js) development. Responsible for performance optimization, API creation, testing, and collaboration with data engineering teams.