Top Director of Software Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Director of Software Engineering leads a team of 50 engineers, ensuring high-quality software delivery across mobile, cloud, and device platforms while promoting engineering best practices.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure teams (SRE, networking, storage). Own SLA/SLOs, incident response, observability, and automated remediation. Architect and operate ultra-low-latency HPC networks (InfiniBand/RoCE, BGP) and high-performance distributed storage (Ceph, Lustre, NVMe-oF). Hire and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, partner with Product and PM to forecast capacity and shape roadmaps, and drive measurable reliability and delivery improvements.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead technology teams, define engineering strategy, mentor talent, and drive AI adoption for Morningstar's platforms.

Lead engineering and architecture for Snowflake-based data platforms and ingestion services supporting audience and measurement. Define strategy, SLAs/SLOs, scalability, cost optimization, cloud-native modernization, CI/CD and IaC adoption. Oversee high-volume data onboarding, normalization, hygiene, and activation workflows. Build and manage a high-performing engineering organization and budgets, partnering with product, privacy, revenue science, and partnerships.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead the development of a comprehensive software system for the construction industry, ensuring successful technology delivery and communication with various stakeholders.

Lead and manage platform software engineering teams to design, build, test, and deploy consumer-facing web and API products. Drive architecture, CI/CD, observability, security, and developer experience while collaborating with product and design. Own code quality (including AI-assisted code), mentor engineers, recruit talent, and deliver scalable, high-availability solutions.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead the Loans Lifecycle engineering organization, manage teams, drive technical roadmaps, and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design and deliver scalable, resilient cloud-based clearing applications. Drive architecture and technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate with vendors, optimize performance and resilience, and collaborate across product, architecture, and operations in an agile environment.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams, design agentic LLM-driven development workflows, set technical strategy and standards, ensure delivery quality, mentor engineers, oversee onboarding and performance reviews, and coordinate cross-team efforts to mitigate risks and maintain system ownership, testing, logging, and monitoring.

Lead multiple engineering teams owning foundational services (identity, documents, payments, vehicle data). Grow managers and engineers, define strategy and roadmaps, ensure technical quality, compliance, operational readiness, cross-team collaboration, and financial sustainability of services.

Lead and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams; mentor engineers; collaborate with product managers; improve engineering practices; design, develop, test, deploy and support full‑stack and microservice solutions on AWS; ensure availability, resilience, and scalability; migrate monoliths to microservices and drive adoption of modern technologies and Agile practices.

Lead technical strategy and engineering standards for a 50–150+ person organization. Embed production-grade generative AI and ML across the lifecycle, drive operational efficiency and delivery velocity, partner with product and executive stakeholders, call out architectural debt, and lead large-scale platform and modernization efforts.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to deliver cloud-native underwriting capabilities. Drive modernization roadmaps, ensure resilient API/microservices platforms, enforce DevSecOps/SRE practices, partner cross-functionally, and manage hiring, performance, and platform reliability.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead a multi-functional team, oversee technical design, architect solutions for a SaaS platform, and ensure compliance with security standards.

The Lead Director of Software Engineering will oversee the Health100 platform's development, drive innovation, lead cross-functional teams, and manage strategic engineering initiatives while ensuring high-quality delivery and stakeholder alignment.

Lead a team of 10 engineers to architect and develop Node.js and Salesforce solutions, improving delivery schedules and performance metrics.

Lead the Agentic Foundations engineering team to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade agentic platforms and tooling. Provide technical and operational leadership across AI agent registries, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and developer-facing abstractions while hiring and managing engineering teams and offshore reliability resources.

Lead Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.

Lead global engineering teams for S365 and SmartShopper, partner with Product and Architecture to deliver scalable cloud solutions, drive modernization and operational excellence, mentor managers and senior engineers, and establish engineering standards, roadmaps, and metrics to improve delivery, reliability, and performance.

The Senior Director Analyst in AI Strategy leads research and delivers actionable insights on AI technologies and software engineering to clients, enhancing their strategic decisions. They produce high-quality content, mentor junior analysts, and represent Gartner at industry events.

Lead and scale full-stack engineering teams for Yahoo Mail; define engineering vision and roadmap; drive AI-native development and AI transformation using Generative AI/LLMs and agents; partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to deliver scalable cloud-native mobile and web experiences; hire, mentor, and retain engineering talent while guiding architecture, technical reviews, and platform modernization.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

The Senior Director Analyst leads research on software engineering trends, produces content, and advises clients, establishing industry credibility and engaging executives.

Lead engineering for Partner Experience across Partner Acquisition & Delivery and Partner Reporting & Insights. Own team health, technical strategy, delivery velocity, and AI-native engineering adoption. Partner with product leadership on roadmap, coach engineering managers, drive architecture and resourcing decisions, and measure AI-augmented velocity while delivering partner onboarding, quoting, lead delivery, and reporting systems.

Lead and scale engineering teams building Protect, a real-time multi-signal fraud detection platform. Set technical strategy, develop managers and senior engineers, deliver distributed systems and APIs, improve architecture, observability, reliability, and developer productivity while partnering with Product, Research, Security, and exec stakeholders.