Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Architect and build microservices using Node.js and Rust, work with cross-functional teams to deliver quality customer-focused features, and improve agile processes.

Lead and manage a team of full‑stack and backend engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable Java/Python applications and ETL/data pipelines. Own production stability, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD-driven deployments. Partner with product, QA, and clients to deliver API-driven microservices, mentor engineers, drive sprint planning, and contribute to architecture and long‑term technical strategy.

The Software Engineer will build new systems, enhance existing ones, and integrate with external systems, collaborating closely with developers, QA, and product managers.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack web and API solutions using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL. Lead architecture and DevOps efforts, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and ensure security, performance, scalability, and reliability. Troubleshoot issues, create technical documentation and diagrams, and continuously improve developer experience and engineering standards.

Contribute to modernization and technical-debt reduction efforts, implement and test features, participate in code reviews, follow CI/CD and Agile practices, and collaborate with senior engineers while learning cloud and security practices.

Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency cloud-native microservices in Go for identity resolution and audience targeting. Own features end-to-end, optimize query and data-access paths (Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, S3), ensure reliability with observability and CI/CD, troubleshoot production incidents, enforce data quality, and collaborate with product, SRE, QA, and data teams to evolve identity and audience-domain architecture.

Develop and maintain custom options valuation and risk-management systems. Collaborate with traders, risk managers, and quants to gather requirements, design solutions, implement high-performance code, troubleshoot issues, document models and tests, and improve scalability, accuracy, and performance of pricing systems.

Lead design and implementation of the Tax platform: build scalable, fault-tolerant systems, improve extensibility, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy and roadmap, collaborate cross-functionally, improve reliability/incident response, and build AI guardrails to safely leverage agentic LLMs for tax compliance.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack web and mobile applications using modern JavaScript frameworks. Produce high-quality, testable code, participate in architecture and estimation, support existing client sites, follow QA and review practices, and optimize performance and scalability. Collaborate with product managers, UX, and cross-functional teams.

Customer-facing software engineer who builds and deploys integrations and agentic AI workflows (LangGraph/LangChain/Agent Studio). Works from discovery through post-launch, creates production-grade integrations, writes tests and RCAs, contributes reusable libraries, and mentors incoming engineers.