Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and improve Adyen’s pricing platform, ensuring robust, scalable, performant, and contractually accurate pricing services. The role involves delivering production functionality quickly, collaborating across teams and time zones, applying software engineering best practices, and understanding how technical decisions affect merchants and business outcomes. Engineers will work with Java, web services, REST APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, and large-scale distributed systems.

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.

Build and maintain API and UI onboarding experiences for Adyen's platform, integrating with internal and third-party services. Design scalable solutions, create PoCs, enhance automation and compliance, and ensure secure handling of customer and legal entity data throughout the lifecycle.

Lead and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams building cloud-native, ultra-low-latency, highly resilient payment systems. Drive architecture, microservices decomposition, AWS deployments, engineering practices, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and adoption of cutting-edge AI tooling to accelerate development and improve system availability and scalability.

Develop scalable front-end and back-end applications, APIs, and microservices within a cross-functional Agile and DevOps team. Responsibilities include technical design, architecture, coding, testing, code reviews, documentation, responsive design, system integration, observability, security, performance, and continuous improvement. The role requires collaboration with product, design, architecture, and engineering stakeholders, along with mentoring peers and participating throughout the software development lifecycle.

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

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.

Support-focused Software Engineer II who triages incidents, executes data corrections, monitors system health, and collaborates across engineering, product, treasury, and operations. Works with HSA/banking integrations and production data involving money movement, mentors teammates, improves runbooks, contributes to postmortems, and identifies systemic improvements to reduce recurring support issues.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, high-quality Java/J2EE enterprise applications; produce architecture and design artifacts; use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly; participate across the SDLC and agile practices (CI/CD, resiliency, security); analyze data to drive improvements and contribute to engineering communities.

Build and maintain scalable backend and platform services for a content management system using .NET, Python, and AWS. Implement RESTful APIs, messaging, graph and search integrations, and AI/LLM-enabled features (tagging, summarization, semantic search). Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, apply engineering best practices, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and platform reliability.

Build and maintain scalable, event-driven systems that transform financial data into automated editorial outputs (articles, charts, tables). Collaborate with data journalists, editors, and engineers to deliver reliable, tested software, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and CMS integrations while improving performance, data quality, and operational tooling.

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 backend services using Java/Spring Boot and cloud infrastructure. Develop RESTful APIs, microservices, ETL/data pipelines, tests, and CI/CD. Improve performance, reliability, and security, triage production issues, participate in architecture, and help onboard and mentor team members.

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.

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.

Lead technical design and delivery of Appian solutions for Retirement & Wealth: build process models, SAIL interfaces, records/data fabric, integrations (REST/SOAP, Salesforce, SQL Server), enforce development standards, mentor developers, manage CI/CD and deployments, troubleshoot production issues, and communicate status and risks to stakeholders and leadership.

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.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

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

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.

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.

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