Top Entry Level Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and maintain backend features for Cribl Edge data collection agents running across Windows, Linux, and macOS. Design scalable, reliable software for hundreds of thousands of nodes, collaborate with product and UX teams, write automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, and support SaaS products through on-call rotations. The role requires TypeScript and Node.js development, cloud and container experience, operating-system knowledge, and experience with data-intensive applications or stream processing.

Design and build performance-focused TV UI architectures for Netflix’s streaming applications across smart TVs, game consoles, and cable boxes. Enable scalable development for engineering teams by improving developer experience, ergonomics, resource management, performance, memory usage, and technology integration. Responsibilities include systems-level architectural thinking, API design, profiling, collaboration with UI, design, platform, and tooling teams, and making thoughtful implementation trade-offs.

Own collaborative editing across React clients and Node services, including offline storage, queued mutations, realtime WebSocket synchronization, conflict resolution, and data persistence. Build agent-enabled editing experiences, investigate data-loss issues across environments, and collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and open-source contributors. The role requires production TypeScript experience across React and Node, rich-text editor frameworks, offline applications, WebSockets, and advanced Postgres skills.

The Software Engineer - AI Systems will design and implement systems to coordinate LLMs, build testable software stacks, conduct research, and collaborate with team members to create AI-powered security solutions.

Join a graduate software engineering program to develop and support C++-based trading applications and tools. Work on systems programming, data structures, and algorithms in a Linux environment, contributing immediately to electronic trading initiatives while learning and collaborating with experienced engineers.

Work on high-performance, low-latency C++ systems for trading: maintain core systems, implement lower-risk features, execute individual projects, and collaborate with Quant and Trading. Focus areas include concurrency, networking, profiling, and performance tuning while supporting multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed architectures.

Join Akuna as an entry-level Python software engineer to build high-performance, low-latency trading and data systems. Work with traders and engineers on distributed systems, data capture, and analytics while contributing clean, testable code and learning domain-specific trading infrastructure.

Build and maintain cross-platform Electron desktop apps focused on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior. Implement desktop features (file access, notifications, auto-updates), integrate AI via backend APIs, optimize startup/memory, profile Electron overhead, manage large local state and message history, and ensure stability on macOS and Windows.

Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems based on requirements. Design, code, debug, integrate software, document and test components, and develop data queries. Provide recommendations to improve processes and support system-level design decisions.

Join Pariveda as an entry-level software engineer working in small teams to gather requirements, design, develop, test, and deliver client solutions. You'll learn cloud, data engineering, DevOps, and AI techniques, be mentored with regular reviews and promotion eligibility, present findings to stakeholders, and work in a hybrid model while engaging in continuous learning and professional development.

Lead the full software development lifecycle for internal and customer-facing observability systems. Design, build, deploy, support, and optimize scalable distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines. Own reliability, performance, testing, documentation, and production readiness; participate in on-call support. Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, investigate incidents, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop effective tooling across the Temporal ecosystem.

As a Software Engineer at Keycard, you'll design, develop, and implement identity and access infrastructures for dynamic, agent-native systems. You'll work on innovative projects that enhance developer experience and security, collaborating closely with a distributed team.

The Software Engineer will develop and operate the Praetorian Guard platform, implement backend and frontend solutions, and collaborate with security engineers on features and scalability.

Leads application engineering for an AI-powered email product, owning backend, mobile, and desktop architecture. Designs reliable AI workflows with orchestration, state management, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling; builds APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences; and leads a senior engineering team through architectural decisions, reviews, mentorship, and production excellence. Partners with ML leadership to ship scalable, observable, secure, and reliable systems while balancing latency, cost, user experience, and maintainability.

Develops and supports software applications. The posting requires U.S. citizenship or naturalized citizenship and mandates that all work be performed within the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Goodbill, you'll develop data systems and user experiences, work with diverse data sources, and integrate AI features, ensuring high-quality consumer-facing applications.

Mudflap seeks software engineers to build and scale their payments platform using Ruby on Rails, collaborating cross-functionally and owning features end-to-end.