Top Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads technical strategy, architecture, operational excellence, mentorship, and multi-team software delivery. Designs maintainable distributed systems using microservices, improves monitoring and operational maturity, drives innovation, and collaborates with stakeholders across departments. Requires 9+ years of enterprise software development experience, public-cloud expertise, strong leadership, communication, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Leads the design and development of full-stack systems supporting diagnostics and genomic data processing. Responsibilities include architecting microservices, scaling bioinformatics workflows, developing AI-assisted applications, optimizing PostgreSQL and Redis, managing GCP infrastructure and CI/CD, and integrating APIs and agentic workflows. The role also involves technical leadership, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, architectural decision-making, and bridging software engineering with computational biology teams.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable software services, APIs, and event-streaming applications using Java and Spring Boot. Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, stakeholders, and product managers on technical solutions. Apply CI/CD and engineering best practices, participate in pair programming and TDD, and mentor junior engineers while supporting full systems lifecycle delivery.

Own end-to-end technical initiatives for iManage’s core cloud platform, including requirements, architecture, implementation, and delivery. Design scalable distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures using modern backend technologies and Azure. Evaluate AI technologies and practical workloads, address reliability and security, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while influencing technical direction across teams.

Develop, deploy, and support proprietary trading applications for human and algorithmic derivatives traders. Collaborate with engineers, traders, and quants to design systems, add features to C# infrastructure, understand the full trading pipeline, and provide real-time support and bug fixes for live trading applications.

Leads software engineering projects and developers while designing cloud-based, full-stack solutions. Uses IBM z/OS, Scheduler, DB2, COBOL, and JCL to stabilize and modernize mainframe systems for cloud migration. Develops with multiple programming languages, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS technologies. Provides technical leadership, establishes engineering standards, partners with architects, improves system performance, reduces technical debt, mentors engineers, and drives large-scale Agile initiatives.

Develop and test high-performance C++ applications for trading platforms. Collaborate with traders and experienced engineers to translate requirements into efficient solutions, while monitoring, profiling, and troubleshooting systems for reliability and stability. The role provides mentorship and exposure to the complete trading-system development lifecycle, including production support, performance tuning, multithreaded programming, and real-time systems.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports reliable software solutions and significant application components. Translates business requirements into technical specifications, builds APIs and integrations, improves CI/CD and DevOps automation, performs testing and troubleshooting, monitors application health, and resolves production issues. Collaborates with product, architecture, engineering, and business teams while managing technical debt, supporting upgrades, guiding junior engineers, and participating in critical incident escalations.

Leads software engineering across architecture, design, prototyping, and delivery for pharmacy technology platforms. Provides mentorship, establishes development frameworks and best practices, collaborates with business and IT stakeholders, leverages approved AI developer tools, supports Agile/Scrum execution, improves performance and security, and leads production issue triage and root-cause analysis.