Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead North America engineering teams for retirement products, provide technical and people leadership, drive architecture and delivery across multiple teams, adopt AI-native engineering practices, ensure operational excellence, and partner with product to shape roadmaps and execution.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Design and implement software solutions across full-stack applications, including microservices, APIs, frontend and backend systems. Diagnose production issues, improve scalability, manage risk, and collaborate with Product, Analytics, Operations, and engineering teams. Mentor junior developers, prioritize work across projects, participate in on-call rotation, and apply AI tools responsibly to enhance development workflows.

Leads architecture and hands-on development for scalable web and mobile pharmacy applications using React.js, React Native, and Next.js. Establishes monorepo strategies, API ecosystems, coding standards, testing, performance optimization, and application release processes. Integrates enterprise AI and ethical AI practices into engineering workflows while mentoring team members and partnering with design and backend teams.

Own the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of backend services, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. Build secure REST and GraphQL APIs, optimize relational data systems, modernize service architecture, maintain CI/CD and testing, and implement privacy and security controls. Collaborate with frontend, QA, and product teams, review code, document systems, and mentor developers.

Provide technical leadership to design, build, and operate scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and REST APIs (Java/Spring Boot/AWS). Drive architecture, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and resolution of complex production issues while collaborating with product, UI, and partner teams.

Design, build, and own large-scale segmentation systems, data pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing dashboard experiences. Lead architecture and product decisions, improve performance, reliability, and cost, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and maintain operational procedures for systems processing billions of users daily. The role requires hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, high-throughput data platforms, and customer-facing products.

Designs, builds, and scales software systems, data pipelines, and event-driven services for patient-data de-identification. The role delivers robust cross-stack features, improves architecture and engineering quality, resolves technical dependencies, and collaborates across teams. Responsibilities include project ownership, technical design, code reviews, testing, documentation, mentoring, coaching, and supporting scalable research-ready datasets for precision medicine.

Paid summer internship for current undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral students in computer science or software engineering. Interns work 40 hours weekly for 10–12 weeks on project-based assignments, gaining exposure to Federal Reserve operations and collaborating with subject matter experts. Responsibilities may include interpreting data, developing insights, presenting information, supporting decisions, and contributing to departmental initiatives in an onsite or hybrid environment.

Support researchers and ML engineers to optimize and scale HPC workloads on CPU/GPU infrastructure. Analyze performance, diagnose bottlenecks across storage, networking, and schedulers, implement profiling and benchmarking, influence platform design, and define best practices for shared compute environments while ensuring security and compliance.