Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and build web and mobile trading applications using React/React Native and .NET; extend WebSocket/REST APIs; process streaming market data; collaborate with product and vendors; troubleshoot urgent issues; apply AI coding assistants responsibly.

Own end-to-end delivery of core product features, build AI/ML pipelines for construction document and drawing analysis, and shape scalable frontend, backend, and ML architecture. Collaborate with co-founders and construction users, translate workflow needs into product improvements, establish engineering practices, and help grow the team. The role spans computer vision, LLM systems, frontend, backend, and production infrastructure in a fast-moving startup environment.

Develop and maintain Dynamics 365 Business Central AL extensions, integrations, environments, reports, and applications across two manufacturing companies. Lead an MRP integration, entity separation, Snowflake data warehouse pipelines, Power BI content, and a customer pricing portal. Provide ERP troubleshooting and occasional Level 1 support while collaborating with finance, operations, sales, and shop-floor teams.

Lead backend engineer responsible for system-level design, implementation, and ownership of low-latency, high-reliability trading and market-data backend systems. Translate business needs into technical designs, write production-ready code, design schemas and integrations, lead reviews, reduce technical debt, and support production while establishing engineering standards and observability.

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver high-quality web, mobile, and embedded software. Provide technical direction, mentor developers, promote best practices (TDD, Agile), communicate with clients, and contribute to company technical outreach. Balance hands-on coding with architecture, team coaching, and client-facing responsibilities.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build cloud-native applications, lead technical initiatives, and mentor junior developers while collaborating with the product team.

Build and support production-grade Python services, libraries, and analytics tools for options portfolio construction, risk analytics, margin monitoring, and trading workflows. Collaborate with portfolio management, research, trading, and sales teams, while serving as a subject matter expert on option markets. Apply software engineering practices and quantitative expertise across financial technology systems.

Designs and delivers secure, scalable full-stack Java solutions for commercial and investment banking use cases. Responsibilities include maintaining master data models, building ingestion and distribution pipelines, developing APIs, creating CI/CD and ML deployment pipelines, implementing AWS infrastructure as code, contributing to knowledge graphs, and producing architecture and design artifacts. The role also requires collaboration across data platform teams and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

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.

Designs, implements, and supports infrastructure for reliable, scalable SaaS applications. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, infrastructure modernization, and technical roadmap development across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role uses infrastructure-as-code, containerization, configuration management, and observability tools while partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams.

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.

Performs electrical, electronic, mechanical, environmental, and safety testing on EV and energy products. Operates and maintains laboratory equipment, analyzes results, prepares reports, manages simple test programs, troubleshoots systems, communicates with customers, and supports test setup, calibration, automation, and process improvement.

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 projects and developers building cloud-based, full-stack solutions using distributed microservices. Designs service boundaries, APIs, reusable frameworks, and database integrations; establishes engineering standards; improves performance and reduces technical debt. The role requires technical leadership across Agile teams, collaboration with product managers and architects, mentoring engineers, and applying modern cloud, DevOps, testing, observability, and AI-assisted development practices.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports enterprise integration solutions connecting applications, cloud services, data sources, and platforms. Leads complex integration initiatives, defines standards and reusable frameworks, partners with software, data, infrastructure, and architecture teams, and ensures interoperability, scalability, resilience, observability, and performance. The role also mentors engineers and advances Agile engineering practices.

Leads full-stack software engineering projects and developer teams building cloud-based, distributed microservices and regulatory solutions. Designs service boundaries, APIs, integration patterns, and reusable frameworks; establishes engineering standards; improves performance and reduces technical debt. Collaborates with product managers and architects, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors engineers, and contributes to technical strategy. Uses modern programming languages, AWS and other cloud platforms, containers, databases, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and observability.

Lead SRE practices for highly available cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. Build observability, dashboards, alerting, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, GitOps, and self-healing capabilities. Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation while improving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams, drive AI-enabled operations, and mentor engineers on SRE and cloud-native best practices.

Build and maintain scalable self-service tools, automated workflows, and infrastructure for data and machine learning platforms. Collaborate with data engineers, scientists, and software engineers to develop reliable data products, implement monitoring and alerting, improve platform usability, integrate new technologies, and document workflows. The role supports data ingestion, analytics, machine learning processes, and scalable platform infrastructure.

Develop and automate comprehensive tests for data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data platforms. Validate data quality, transformations, performance, scalability, and time-series biosensor outputs. Build synthetic datasets that replicate production data, identify anomalies and bottlenecks, and improve testing frameworks. Collaborate with data engineers and scientists to ensure reliable data throughout the lifecycle supporting regulated software-as-a-medical-device products.

Builds AI-enabled automation and tools for ServiceNow and other platform administration, inventory, release planning, environment lifecycle management, upgrades, and deployment processes. The role includes process improvement, troubleshooting, best-practice development, stakeholder collaboration, and occasional after-hours or weekend support.