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200K-275K Annually
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200K-275K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The Director of Software Engineering will lead and scale product-delivery engineering teams, ensuring high-quality launches, effective strategy execution, and collaboration across departments while fostering a culture of ownership and excellence in a remote-first environment.
Top Skills: GoPythonTypescript
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Chicago, IL
286K-392K Annually
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286K-392K Annually
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Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Sr. Director will lead software engineering efforts in integrating banking systems, manage teams, implement AI technologies, and oversee migrations to AWS.
Top Skills: Agentic ToolsAIAWSBig Data TechnologiesEtl SuiteMicroservicesMl
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Chicago, IL
245K-335K Annually
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245K-335K Annually
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Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Director will lead software engineering teams, oversee major data migrations, and implement AI/ML strategies within a cloud environment. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, enhancing practices, and fostering innovation.
Top Skills: Ai/MlAWSBig DataETLMicroservices
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Big Data • Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Financial Services
Lead the enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy, ensuring compliance and automation in testing processes across teams. Manage governance and integrate quality practices with product development.
Top Skills: Automation FrameworksAWSJenkinsJIRATest Management Tools
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Chicago, IL
245K-307K Annually
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245K-307K Annually
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Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Lead and grow multiple full-stack engineering teams focused on Card Payments tenant experience. Drive architecture, microservices migration, AWS deployments, engineering practices, cross-team collaboration, and modernization of payment platforms.
Top Skills: AndroidAngularjsArtifactoryAws/Cloud InfrastructureBig DataGoiOSJavaJSONMachine LearningMavenMicroservicesNode.jsNosql DatabasesPerlPythonReactRelational DatabasesRestRubySparkXML
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Chicago, IL
175K-220K Annually
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175K-220K Annually
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Greentech
Lead the software engineering team for quantum computing control systems, ensuring excellence in software development, architecture, and technical direction while mentoring team members.
Top Skills: DevOpsGpu Acceleration LibrariesLinuxNumpyPythonRustScipy
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Chicago, IL
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267K-360K Annually
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267K-360K Annually
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Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Lead the Card Platform team at Affirm, set vision, manage engineering outcomes, collaborate cross-functionally, and enhance the card capabilities.
Top Skills: Full Stack Engineering
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267K-360K Annually
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267K-360K Annually
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Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Lead and scale a global Site Reliability Engineering organization responsible for availability, performance, incident response, risk management, and operational excellence. Partner with product, security, risk, legal, and engineering to embed resilience, hire and grow SRE and systems teams, and drive reliability programs and lifecycle practices across Affirm's platform.
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Chicago, IL
165K-185K Annually
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165K-185K Annually
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Insurance
The Director of Software Engineering will manage software engineering teams, drive innovation, ensure quality delivery, and align technology with business goals.
Top Skills: AWSAzureGCP
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Chicago, IL
165K-185K Annually
Senior level
165K-185K Annually
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Insurance
The Director of Software Engineering leads teams in delivering high-quality software solutions for Life products, focusing on strategic objectives, stakeholder collaboration, and fostering a culture of innovation.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCloud ComputingGCPSoftware Development
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Chicago, IL
172K-203K Annually
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172K-203K Annually
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Consulting
The Senior Director Analyst leads research on software engineering trends, produces content, and advises clients, establishing industry credibility and engaging executives.
Top Skills: Ai Development ToolsSaas PlatformsSoftware Engineering
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Chicago, IL
179K-325K Annually
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179K-325K Annually
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Consumer Web • Digital Media • Information Technology • News + Entertainment • On-Demand
The Sr. Director of Software Engineering leads DevOps teams, manages software delivery processes, ensures technical excellence, and oversees IAM and data pipeline solutions.
Top Skills: AgileCloud EnvironmentsForgerockIam PlatformsJavaJIRAOktaPingSafeScrum
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Chicago, IL
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Aerospace
The Director of Engineering for Mission Software leads initiatives in designing, executing, and managing mission software projects for national security, guiding technical direction and mentoring engineering teams.
Top Skills: Aws GovcloudAzure DevopsAzure GovernmentCi/Cd AutomationCloud OrchestrationDevsecopsFaceGitlabKubernetesOpen Mission Systems
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Remote
Chicago, IL
122K-250K Annually
Senior level
122K-250K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Director of Software Engineering leads AI-enabled product development and engineering operations, ensuring high-quality deliverables from multiple teams while driving innovation and collaboration across the organization.
Top Skills: AIAPIsAutomation ToolsCloud PlatformsLlm IntegrationsSaaS
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157K-252K Annually
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157K-252K Annually
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AdTech • Marketing Tech • Analytics • Consulting
The Director of Software Engineering leads the Agentic Foundations team, focusing on AI-driven platforms, managing engineering teams, and ensuring high reliability in AI solutions for the Kroger enterprise.
Top Skills: Ai/Ml FrameworksAiopsAutogenCi/CdCloud-Based Software ArchitectureContainerizationFastapiGCPHelmKubernetesLangchainAzureMlflowMlopsModel MonitoringModel RegistryOpenai SdkOrchestrationPythonPyTorchTerraform
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Chicago, IL
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Insurance
The Director of Software Engineering leads engineering, application development, and quality assurance, drives a multi-year strategy, and manages high-performing teams to deliver technology solutions aligned with business goals.
Top Skills: Agile MethodologyCloud-Native Development (Azure/Aws)DevOpsSdlc
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Chicago, IL
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Logistics
The Director of Software Engineering leads technology and AI strategy, overseeing enterprise platforms, data infrastructures, and engineering talent development.
Top Skills: AirflowAngularAWSAzureDbtDockerGCPGoJavaKafkaKubernetesMlflowPythonPyTorchReactSparkTensorFlow
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Chicago, IL
144K-288K Annually
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144K-288K Annually
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Fitness • Healthtech • Retail • Pharmaceutical
Lead and oversee software engineering and product teams for PBM Invoicing, FLEX and Core products; manage delivery, budgets, vendors, cloud modernization, technical strategy, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement across enterprise initiatives.
Top Skills: Angular,Typescript,Springboot,Java,Kotlin,Jest,Karma,Jasmine,Selenium,Protractor,Jenkins,Github Actions,Concourse,Circleci,Informatica,Mainframes,Gcp,Azure,Aws,Api Design,Microservices
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Consulting
Lead and scale a global engineering organization, define technical standards and delivery frameworks, support pre-sales and client engagements, and drive cloud-native architecture, inclusive leadership, and measurable business outcomes across client engagements.
Top Skills: AgileAIAtlassianAWSCloud-NativeGitLean
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Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Healthtech
Lead engineering initiatives for eSource products, manage a team, set technology roadmap, partner with product, and ensure customer satisfaction.
Top Skills: AWSJavaPythonReactSQL
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Chicago, IL
165K-190K Annually
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165K-190K Annually
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Insurance
Provide strategic leadership for multiple software engineering teams and managers, define application and architecture strategy, oversee portfolio delivery, ensure quality, compliance, resource allocation, risk management, and continuous improvement to meet business objectives.
Top Skills: Java,Microservices,Api-Based Integrations,Apis,Cloud-Native,Automated Quality Controls,Agile At Scale,Continuous Delivery
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Chicago, IL
205K-307K Annually
Senior level
205K-307K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
Lead multiple engineering squads to deliver scalable, cloud-native healthcare products. Define engineering strategy, partner with Product, drive AI automation, ensure reliability/security, mentor technical leads, and oversee planning, resourcing, and execution of cross-functional initiatives.
Top Skills: Azure,Cloud-Native,Microservices,Container Orchestration,Ci/Cd,Devops,Observability,Performance Engineering,Jmeter,Sonarqube,Veracode,Xray,Qualys,Ai-Powered Automation
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Chicago, IL
185K-210K Annually
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185K-210K Annually
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Healthtech • Software
The Director of Software Engineering will lead engineering teams, drive software delivery, improve platform stability, and implement AI capabilities across the HHAeXchange SaaS platforms.
Top Skills: .NetAngularAPIsAWSDockerKubernetesSQL ServerWeb Services
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Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Cloud • Edtech • Software
Lead technical strategy and modernization for high-transaction school nutrition systems. Manage multiple engineering teams, drive cloud-native and microservices architectures, oversee data infrastructure and CI/CD/DevOps practices, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, own budgets and schedules, and mentor engineering talent to ensure reliable, low-latency point-of-sale and payments processing across distributed K-12 environments.
Top Skills: .NetAgileAi-Assisted Coding PlatformsAngularApi-FirstC#Ci/CdCloud-NativeDevOpsJavaScriptMicroservicesOffline-First ArchitecturesReactSQL Server
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