Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will develop scalable applications, mentor team members, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.

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

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 build AI-driven software solutions for various internal teams, emphasizing customer collaboration and problem-solving.

Build and improve internal, workflow-driven front-end applications using TypeScript and React. Drive UI architecture, state management, performance, testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical features.

Join a cross-functional Agile/DevOps team to build scalable front-end and API/service solutions. Convert designs into responsive UIs, develop APIs, apply test-first practices, ensure security/compliance, and continuously improve software via automated pipelines and quality controls.

Build and scale Buyercloud ad-serving systems that process billions of auctions daily. Design data- and model-driven features, optimize performance and cost, extend observability, participate in on-call rotations, produce documentation and playbooks, and support production incidents.

Design, develop, test, and integrate software applications, services, APIs, and prototypes in an agile environment. Build production-ready solutions, automation, and reusable components; support integrations, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and operational readiness. Evaluate emerging technologies (AI/ML, generative AI, platforms), contribute to architecture and technical decisions, and collaborate across product, security, and business teams.

Contribute to high-scale production software for an e-commerce company, working on customer-facing features and automation, while advancing to technical leadership roles.

Year-long internship building production software and AI-powered solutions. Work as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer or Product-focused Software Engineer, partner with customers, design and implement end-to-end features, and deploy scalable platforms (Foundry/Gotham/Apollo). Emphasis on problem solving, data systems, cloud, and applied AI in agile teams.

This role involves developing backend solutions with Ruby on Rails, designing responsive frontends using React.js, and managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform in a full stack capacity.

Responsible for full software development life cycle, including design, development, and testing of applications while mentoring team members and collaborating with various stakeholders.

As a Kotlin Engineer, you'll develop and enhance payment terminal solutions, ensuring robust features and integration with various cash registers while taking ownership of your projects.

Design and build Order submission APIs, coach engineers, partner with stakeholders, and improve engineering standards in a hybrid role.

Design and implement modern client-side interfaces using JavaScript frameworks, integrate with multi-tenant cloud APIs, ensure performance, security, and scalability, collaborate with PMs and UX/UI designers, write reusable code, participate in code reviews, and deliver features within cross-functional Agile teams.

Build and scale consumer-facing mobile and web applications and backend services. Own features end-to-end across frontend and backend, optimize databases and queries, integrate third-party APIs, implement algorithms for risk and transaction evaluation, improve reliability and CI/CD, and contribute to testing, monitoring, and internal tools to support customer operations.

Build and maintain frontend and backend platform components for AI infrastructure using Python and TypeScript. Support and develop the open-source SDK, create APIs and UIs, collaborate with engineering and AI teams, write tests, and follow CI best practices. Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and continuous learning to improve platform scalability and developer experience.

Develop and maintain front-end apps for the myQ program, collaborating across teams and mentoring junior engineers while adhering to coding standards.

The role involves leading a team of engineers in software development, focusing on AI-driven processes, mentoring, and ensuring high-quality output.

Join the evening core engineering team to develop and maintain finance and trading systems (PnL, positions, reconciliations). Collaborate cross-functionally, support production environments, monitor performance, troubleshoot incidents, and hand off to Budapest for follow-the-sun operations while contributing across the full product lifecycle.

Design and re-architect the Identity systems at Dropbox to support multi-product capabilities, mentor junior engineers, and ensure software excellence.