Top Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead an agile team to design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices. Produce high-quality code, drive architecture/vendor evaluations, automate remediation, promote AI-assisted engineering practices, and ensure operational stability and secure SDLC adoption across teams.

Lead a team delivering full-stack, cloud-based microservices and developer tooling. Drive technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and build scalable solutions using modern languages, containers, orchestration, and cloud services to meet regulatory and customer needs.

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.

The role involves leading software engineering projects, managing a team, collaborating with product managers, and developing cloud-based solutions using various programming languages and AWS services.

Lead and deliver cloud-based, full-stack microservices solutions; manage a portfolio and mentor engineers; collaborate with product managers; design and implement systems using modern languages, containers, and cloud services to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead and mentor a team building cloud-native, resilient infrastructure and SRE capabilities. Drive observability, container orchestration, IaC, automation, and cloud solutions with stakeholders to improve availability and regulatory compliance.

Lead a team and portfolio to build cloud-native, regulatory-focused solutions using microservices, ML, and full-stack systems. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and deliver AWS-based infrastructure using containers, orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.

Lead a team delivering full-stack, cloud-based microservices and regulatory solutions. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product, experiment with new technologies, and use containers, databases, and cloud services to build scalable systems.

Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a developer team to build distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, experiment with new technologies, and occasionally write or review code. Use languages and tools such as JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, RDBMS/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP to deliver regulatory and customer-facing systems.

Lead a portfolio of full-stack, cloud-based projects and a team of developers to build distributed microservices and compliant solutions. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, experiment with new technologies and AI tooling, and deliver scalable experiences using languages and tools such as JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, RDBMS/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Lead a team delivering cloud-based, full-stack microservice solutions; mentor engineers; collaborate with product managers; build with Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, cloud platforms, containers, and databases to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team to design and deliver cloud-native, distributed microservices and full-stack solutions. Drive regulatory-focused technology projects, collaborate with product managers, write and review code, experiment with emerging tools, and leverage AWS/Azure/GCP, containers, and databases to build scalable systems.

Lead a team building distributed microservices and full‑stack cloud solutions. Design and deliver scalable cloud-based systems using modern languages, containers, orchestration, and databases while mentoring engineers, collaborating with product, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Lead a team building distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions. Drive technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and deliver secure, scalable systems using cloud, containers, databases, and modern languages.

Lead a team building cloud-native, full-stack solutions and distributed microservices. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, deliver AWS-based systems, and adopt emerging technologies to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead a portfolio and team to design and deliver distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions to meet regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, adopt emerging technologies, and use languages and tools like JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Lead Engineer responsible for end-to-end feature design, development, testing, and delivery of a cloud-based healthcare platform. Work full stack from database to frontend, design scalable data services and APIs, mentor junior engineers, ensure testing and security best practices, and deploy to modern cloud infrastructure.

Lead and mentor a team building cloud-native, low-latency microservices and full-stack systems using Java/Go/AWS/Angular. Drive technical modernization, collaborate with product managers, ensure regulatory compliance, and occasionally code or evaluate implementations.

Lead full-stack engineering portfolio and mentor developers to deliver cloud-based, microservices-driven solutions. Collaborate with product managers, use modern languages and container orchestration, and drive regulatory-compliant systems and tech innovation.

Lead a portfolio and team to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack, microservices solutions meeting regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, occasionally code and evaluate implementations, and use modern cloud, container, database, and AI-related tooling.

Lead and mentor an engineering team to build cloud-native, full-stack solutions and distributed microservices. Collaborate with product managers to deliver secure, scalable AWS-based applications using modern languages, containers, and orchestration while promoting tech practices, experimentation, and community engagement.

Lead an agile engineering team to design, build, and operate secure, scalable full-stack systems. Drive architecture for event-driven microservices, develop Java Spring Boot services and React/TypeScript SPAs, own testing and operational stability, promote AI-assisted engineering practices, and lead technical evaluations and communities of practice.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and develop GenAI platforms, integrate LLMs, mentor engineers, and solve technical challenges for scalable solutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize software solutions for e-commerce and automate logistics, while mentoring junior engineers.