Top Python Jobs in Chicago, IL

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication.

Build, maintain, and scale e-commerce backend services using Python and Django. Develop REST APIs and features for catalogs, inventory, carts, checkout, orders, payments, and accounts. Integrate third-party services, optimize databases and performance, implement security controls, write tested code, resolve production issues, and collaborate on architecture, planning, reviews, deployment, and CI/CD.

Build and maintain full-stack applications that deliver AI/ML insights through backend services, REST APIs, containerized microservices, and high-performance front-end interfaces. Responsibilities include cloud-native development on Google Cloud or Azure, database management, testing, CI/CD automation, security, troubleshooting, and Agile collaboration.

Build software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation for cloud cost visibility, infrastructure efficiency, reliability, engineering productivity, and financial accountability. Analyze workloads and billing data, implement AI- and analytics-enabled forecasting and anomaly detection, develop cloud-native services, and support capacity planning, cost allocation, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Data, Platform, SRE, Architecture, and Product teams while testing, troubleshooting, documenting, and communicating recommendations and business value.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, deploys, and supports scalable backend software and web applications. Builds RESTful APIs with Django, contributes to architecture, documents technical work, and supports production services using Kubernetes, EKS, and AWS. Mentors junior engineers, collaborates with stakeholders and QA, evaluates performance metrics, supports releases, and presents technical decisions to internal and external audiences. The role requires independent judgment and occasional nights or weekends.

Develop and maintain scalable backend services for programmatic advertising platforms. Responsibilities include designing REST APIs, analyzing requirements, integrating and releasing software, managing production deployments, troubleshooting complex issues, collaborating with QA and cross-functional teams, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and promoting reliable engineering practices. The role requires Python and Django expertise, PHP experience, AWS and Kubernetes/EKS experience, and on-site work in Chicago twice weekly.

Build and maintain Python backend services and serverless architectures for a restaurant operations platform. Ship end-to-end features, design robust systems, and help define product roadmap. Implement CI/CD and productionization, collaborate with product and GTM teams, and contribute to team culture and technical execution.

The Quantitative Developer will develop systems from research to production, build simulation infrastructure, manage feature pipelines, and troubleshoot issues in quantitative trading environments.

Designs and develops APIs, system integrations, and AI-agent workflows for enterprise applications. Builds integrations with platforms such as Salesforce and REST APIs, deploys and supports solutions on AWS, and develops AI-powered automation using LLMs, tool calling, and multi-step workflows. The role includes client requirements gathering, troubleshooting, reliability optimization, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring junior developers.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable Go and Python microservices in distributed production environments. Responsibilities include API design, Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting incidents, system architecture, security, testing, code reviews, and continuous improvements to development processes and infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, strong Linux and Docker expertise, observability knowledge, and experience with reliability, performance, and CI/CD practices.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and event-driven or batch processing systems. Transform data from advertising, ecommerce, order management, and event sources while improving monitoring, freshness, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with data engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams to extend the integration platform in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.

Lead backend-focused software architecture and development across distributed systems, data ingestion, experimentation platforms, AI workflows, and product capabilities. Build primarily in Python while contributing to React and TypeScript frontend work. Translate ambiguous product needs into scalable production systems, guide technical direction, partner with product and data teams, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Build backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, and frontend features for Northbeam’s marketing intelligence platform. Work on experimentation, near-real-time data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows, data integrations, RBAC, and end-to-end product delivery. Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, designers, and senior engineers while contributing across backend, frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure in a fast-moving environment.

Develop and maintain open-source Python frameworks and ML developer tools, architect scalable libraries, grow early-stage projects, build real-time streaming capabilities, integrate modern frontend technologies, and collaborate with open-source contributors and the broader developer community.

Modernize legacy SAS data-processing systems by translating logic into scalable, high-performance Python solutions. Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines using formats including SAS, Parquet, JSON, and SQL. Integrate PostgreSQL, implement parallel processing, automated testing, data validation, and quality assurance, and maintain well-documented code. Collaborate with IT specialists and stakeholders to validate requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver cloud-native modernization solutions.

Build and maintain scalable backend applications, serverless functions, microservices, data workflows, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native architectures using Python and AWS. Manage databases, APIs, batch jobs, and real-time integrations while optimizing performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data teams; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, development standards, and technical mentorship. Healthcare claims data experience is required.

Build and maintain scalable Python-based AI applications under senior guidance. Assist with requirements, feature implementation, data modeling using Pydantic, code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, and CI/CD. The role requires collaboration, communication, and willingness to learn modern Python tools, frameworks, and libraries. Candidates should understand object-oriented programming, REST APIs, large language models, and AI coding tools. The position is fully remote within the United States.

Develop and maintain Python-based applications, collaborate with cross-functional teams, write clean efficient code, debug and optimize performance, participate in code reviews, and follow development best practices.

The Senior Scala/Python Engineer designs and develops scalable back-end systems, architects APIs, optimizes databases, and mentors team members in functional programming practices, enhancing platform reliability and security.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop and maintain backend systems for data processing related to coffee farming, utilizing Python and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, problem-solving, and adapting systems to regulatory changes while ensuring system resilience.

The Senior Full Stack Developer will design, develop, test, and debug software solutions, collaborating with teams and optimizing applications. Responsibilities include user interaction design, back-end functionality, and ensuring software scalability and security.

Develop and maintain Business Operations engineering projects including a bitemporal PostgreSQL cost-attribution system. Build integrations with Jira, NetSuite, Device42, Bitbucket, and other sources. Integrate LLM/AI APIs and native AI features into workflows, automate reports and pipelines for Procurement/Finance/HR, and ensure secure data-handling. Lead development, document schemas, and support deployment and ongoing production maintenance.

As a Python and Kubernetes Software Engineer, you will develop data analytics solutions using open source tools, collaborating with a distributed team.

The Python Engineer will write maintainable Python software, lead technical initiatives, collaborate globally, and contribute to community engagement at Canonical.