Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead ServiceNow platform architecture, performance tuning, and scalable integrations. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to optimize reliability, monitor KPIs, troubleshoot performance and SQL issues, conduct platform audits, and provide strategic guidance on capacity, resilience, and engineering best practices.

Senior server-side engineer to develop and extend gameplay features and systems using PHP, work with relational and non-relational data stores, integrate new tools, and help define and scope work on high-profile live game titles.

Build and scale systems powering in-app Content Cards: develop features, improve reliability and performance, drive architectural decisions, and deliver personalized, real-time in-product messaging and analytics alongside product and UX teams.

Lead a full-stack Reconciliation team owning transaction-matching pipelines across mobile and backend systems. Drive reliability, observability, and accuracy for post-claim flows, coach and grow engineers, contribute hands-on in high-leverage technical areas, partner cross-functionally, and scale systems and processes to improve transaction success and user trust.

The Senior Software Development Engineer will design and build backend services for the GenAI Platform, integrating AI-driven capabilities and ensuring secure, scalable solutions while collaborating with other teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of major platform initiatives, mentor engineers, drive cross-team alignment, reduce technical debt, anticipate and mitigate product-level risks, and influence technical strategy and roadmaps while managing medium- to large-scale projects with cross-functional impact.

Senior Full Stack Engineer for Grainger's Home Page and Display Customizations team. Build and maintain reusable React components, design and evolve backend services, improve observability and reliability, modernize legacy systems, and contribute to micro-frontend architecture. Mentor junior engineers, lead team projects, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality customer-facing features.

Lead full-stack engineering for Studio: design, build, and own APIs, backend services, and React/TypeScript product features on AWS. Drive architecture and technical direction, lead projects end-to-end, mentor teammates, leverage AI-assisted development, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes.

Lead solution architecture for OCC's next-generation clearing system: design distributed, cloud-native, event-driven and batch systems (Kafka, microservices, Kubernetes), define architecture standards and NFRs, guide implementation, collaborate with DevOps/security, document decisions, and mentor engineering teams.

Lead engineering on trading technology: design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable Java/Spring services and data pipelines. Drive adoption of cloud (AWS), CI/CD, AI/ML, analytics, automation, and best practices while mentoring and delivering complex market-facing systems.