Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design and implement systems for decentralized applications, enhance scalability, and collaborate with the team.

The Software Engineer, Backend Engineer will develop, automate, and maintain core functionalities for Rescale customers, focusing on backend systems and cloud services.

The Backend Engineer will develop infrastructure for product integration, create documentation for team training, and influence technology decisions.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Build and maintain backend services and APIs, write unit tests, debug and optimize systems, support migration from Supabase to cloud, improve reliability, and integrate AI/RPA workflows while learning under senior mentorship.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Build, operate, and own cloud-native backend services and platform infrastructure (primarily in AWS) to enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads. Write production Python code, implement IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), deploy containerized workloads, design observability and CI/CD, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Lead the design and development of scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS, mentor engineers, and manage PostgreSQL databases in a healthcare technology environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable backend services and event-driven systems for Fetch's ads, rewards, and offer platforms. Own APIs, eligibility and attribution logic, reward fulfillment, observability, platformization, and cross-functional architecture decisions to support high-throughput consumer experiences and revenue-generating systems.

Own and build backend services for benefit estimate (270/271), claims adjudication integrations, and claims processing pipelines. Ensure accuracy, reliability, and throughput across PostgreSQL, Redis, and BigQuery, design APIs, participate in architecture and incident response, and contribute to on-call rotation.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

As a Back End Engineer, you will develop core financial systems, manage APIs, and optimize architecture while collaborating across teams.

Lead development of Python-based web applications using Django and FastAPI, architect scalable solutions, and establish technical standards while mentoring developers and optimizing infrastructure.

The Lead Engineer will design and manage scalable web applications and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement high-quality software for BigFuture. Responsibilities include architecture definition, mentoring, and leading Agile ceremonies while exploring technologies like AI.

As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will lead technical standards, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive feature development in a fast-growing on-demand services environment.

Design, build, test, and support EPIC integration solutions across the full interface lifecycle. Gather requirements, resolve integration issues, develop standards and documentation, and provide production support within a remote, volunteer, part-time setup.

Design and build robust backend services and secure APIs for finance and reader applications. Implement authentication, payments, subscriptions, and finance workflows. Design Postgres/Redis schemas, integrate with financial APIs (BSE Star MF, NSE) and DRM services, and ensure compliance-friendly data handling.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.