Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads software engineering projects and development teams building full-stack, distributed microservices and cloud-based solutions. Collaborates with product managers, mentors engineers, evaluates emerging technologies, and delivers systems supporting regulatory needs and customer experiences. The role uses multiple programming languages, open-source databases, container orchestration, and major cloud platforms.

Leads software engineering projects and development teams building distributed microservices, full-stack systems, and cloud-based solutions. Designs technology solutions supporting regulatory needs and customer experiences, collaborates with product managers, evaluates and writes code, mentors engineers, and promotes modern technology adoption. The role requires expertise in backend development, cloud computing, databases, container orchestration, open-source frameworks, and Agile practices.

Leads software engineering projects and developer teams building distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions. Collaborates with product managers, mentors engineers, addresses regulatory technology needs, and delivers customer-focused systems. Uses Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, and NoSQL technologies while evaluating emerging tools and AI-assisted productivity solutions.

Perform and manage engineering safety investigations and testing for consumer technology products. Define project scope, develop test plans, examine samples for UL compliance, coordinate lab activities and client communications, prepare reports, and support development of test methods and UL requirements. May handle projects, file reviews, and represent UL at industry events. Hybrid role with hands-on lab work and occasional client-site travel.

Performs safety and non-safety certification inspections and field evaluations at manufacturing facilities. Analyzes test results against UL requirements, verifies measuring equipment accuracy and calibration, reviews production and inspection records, communicates with manufacturers and customers, documents findings, and maintains inspection schedules, logs, and expenses. The role involves frequent travel to company and manufacturing sites.

Designs, implements, maintains, and optimizes North American networking infrastructure connecting trading operations, data centers, exchanges, and global offices. Responsibilities include network architecture, engineering projects, performance optimization, monitoring, incident resolution, documentation, reporting, and support for UNIX, Windows, SAN, and data center deployments. The role also requires troubleshooting advanced network technologies and mentoring junior network team members.

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.

Supports data center deployment and daily operations, including equipment installation, rack and stack, cabling, migrations, decommissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, outage response, and on-call support. Coordinates vendors, changes, projects, inventory, and implementation schedules. Develops and executes technical procedures, documents incidents, maintains structured cabling, and supports power, network, and facility infrastructure in an onsite critical environment.

Leads architecture, development, testing, piloting, and scaling of emerging-technology software solutions. Builds secure, scalable, observable, and production-ready applications using cloud-native architectures, APIs, automation, and AI technologies. Translates business needs into technical designs and roadmaps, evaluates proofs of concept, establishes testing and production-readiness criteria, mitigates technical risks, collaborates across product and security teams, and mentors engineers.

Develop scalable full-stack software across the complete development lifecycle. Responsibilities include building responsive front-end interfaces, designing user interactions, developing databases and back-end services, creating REST APIs, testing and debugging applications, implementing CI/CD practices, documenting solutions, and collaborating with engineering teams and product managers in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Lead full-cycle development of API and web applications, from architecture and design through deployment and support. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to set technical direction, deliver secure and scalable solutions, improve developer productivity, and support Agile delivery. Responsibilities include code reviews, troubleshooting, documentation, observability, automation, quality measurement, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Performs on-site safety and non-safety certification inspections, field evaluations, quality-system audits, and compliance reviews for manufacturers. Analyzes test results, verifies measurement equipment and calibration, reviews production records, investigates certification-mark misuse, documents findings, and facilitates corrective actions. The role requires customer communication, technical interpretation of standards, use of inspection instruments, calculations, and frequent local client visits throughout the Kansas City area.

Supports fire and smoke detection product testing and UL certification projects. Evaluates product compliance, develops test programs, coordinates laboratory activities, reviews samples and test results, prepares technical reports, and resolves engineering issues. The role manages project scope, timelines, costs, and client communications while providing technical guidance throughout certification. It also involves developing test methods, assisting with UL requirements, supporting continuous improvement, and potentially traveling to client sites for testing or witnessing.

Supports HVAC product safety, compliance, and certification projects by reviewing technical data, applying UL requirements, examining product samples, coordinating laboratory testing, and resolving engineering issues. The role manages project scope, schedules, client communications, reports, test programs, follow-up procedures, and compliance reviews. It may also assist with developing test methods, equipment, and UL requirements, while representing the organization at industry events.

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.

Builds, maintains, monitors, and optimizes applications and cloud infrastructure for availability, reliability, and scalability. Designs automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code solutions, implements observability and SLOs, troubleshoots incidents and networking issues, and reduces operational toil. The role also guides teammates in SRE best practices, uses authorized AI tools for incident analysis, and collaborates across teams to proactively resolve complex platform and business problems.

Builds, maintains, monitors, and optimizes applications and infrastructure for availability, reliability, scalability, and performance. Designs automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code solutions, implements observability and SLOs, responds to incidents, reduces toil, troubleshoots cloud and networking issues, and applies authorized AI tools to improve incident analysis and reliability. Guides teammates in adopting SRE practices across data management and migration platforms.

Leads DevOps and development operations for web applications, building CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments across Azure environments. Serves as an Azure platform subject matter expert, supports Azure DevOps configurations, contributes to architecture and technology roadmaps, and ensures security, availability, recoverability, monitoring, and supportability standards. Collaborates with engineering, SQA, architecture, and security teams in an Agile/SAFe environment to design, deploy, stabilize, and continuously improve software delivery workflows.

Responsible for designing, implementing, managing and maintaining data storage systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and disaster recovery.

Lead full-stack software engineering for customer onboarding across mobile, web, and backend systems. Provide technical leadership to development teams, deliver cloud-based microservices, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and address regulatory needs. Build and orchestrate multi-agent workflows using advanced AI frameworks and tools while leveraging modern programming languages, databases, containers, and cloud services.

Develop, test, and maintain scalable backend RESTful APIs and microservices using Java and Spring Boot on cloud platforms. Define API contracts/OpenAPI specs, implement OAuth2-based integrations, write automated tests, support CI/CD and deployments, troubleshoot production issues, participate in code reviews, and maintain technical and operational documentation.

Own and improve the production Linux infrastructure, including performance tuning, incident response, configuration management, container orchestration, networking, proxies, virtualization, secrets, observability, and data services. Build automation in Bash and Python, maintain infrastructure code through Git and peer review, troubleshoot complex system issues, write postmortems and runbooks, and support scalable, reliable systems in a regulated fintech environment.

Lead technical vision and software engineering excellence for Capital One’s Card Tech team. Build production-ready, AI-native systems; design distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant architectures and API platforms; ensure performance, security, and operability; decompose complex problems; mentor engineers; recruit talent; and share technical knowledge across the organization.

Design, build, and maintain developer APIs and tooling for Kafka; refactor Java/Spring code; implement CI/CD pipelines; ensure platform reliability and incident response; support high-volume Kafka platform operations; deploy secure cloud-native services on OpenShift using Kubernetes and observability tools like Datadog.