Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, build, and maintain internal front-end trading tools, dashboards, and supporting APIs. Partner with traders, Risk, and Technology to gather requirements, improve performance, reliability, and scalability, and provide production support for real-time, high-throughput trading systems.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team, oversee design and delivery of software and web applications, set project requirements and timelines, enforce development best practices and KPIs, manage releases, budgets, and capital projects, and drive continuous technical improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

As a Senior Staff Engineer at Braze, you will lead technical initiatives in the Channels division, ensuring effective message delivery, mentoring engineers, and enhancing architectural quality while actively contributing to software development.

Leads engineering for Grainger’s eProcurement domain and customer-facing API portal. Manages engineering teams and managers, establishes team charters, drives cross-functional execution, shapes external API standards, and advances modernization. Builds reliable, observable, high-performing systems through strong engineering practices, operations reviews, metrics, incident processes, and cloud-based delivery. Develops engineering leaders and partners with Product, Architecture, UX, Data, ML, and peer engineering teams.

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 design and implementation of modernized insurance underwriting and policy administration solutions. Drive cloud transformation, data-driven and secure architectures, improve risk selection and claims resolution, enhance customer experience through automation, mentor technical teams, manage client relationships, and oversee project lifecycle, budgets, and delivery quality.

Serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise supply‑chain integrations and agentic AI workflows. Architect and build data pipelines, microservices, APIs, and LLM-powered automation; own POCs to production, define reusable integration standards, support pre-sales, mentor engineers, and drive platform roadmap and customer outcomes across ERP/OMS/WMS/TMS ecosystems.

Lead design, development, testing and deployment of backend microservices and RESTful APIs on a cloud platform (AWS). Provide technical leadership, mentor developers, perform code reviews, drive high-quality software delivery, and contribute to Agile cross-functional teams.

Lead hands-on SAP technical architecture and ABAP development across ERP modules and add-on platforms. Design integrations (BTP, RFC/BAPI, IDoc, REST/SOAP), enable automation (UiPath/RPA), govern code quality, deliver consolidation projects, and mentor teams while maintaining architecture standards and technical documentation.

Lead and maintain high-availability production and non-production databases (primarily SQL Server) supporting clearing operations. Responsibilities include performance tuning, capacity planning, HA/DR design and runbooks, upgrades, automation for monitoring and maintenance, incident escalation, vendor interaction, and participation in on-call rotation and cross-region handoffs.