Top Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead the design and development of ETL solutions for regulatory risk compliance at PNC, requiring advanced programming skills and collaboration on data-intensive applications.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Leads the design and delivery of secure, cloud-native software platforms supporting complex workflows, data-intensive applications, and AI capabilities. Provides architectural guidance across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, configuration-driven rules, and RAG/GraphRAG solutions. Ensures scalability, observability, auditability, security, and compliance while mentoring engineers, reviewing technical deliverables, improving CI/CD and incident response, and serving as an escalation point for complex technical decisions.

Lead the architecture, technical evolution, and hands-on development of a mission-critical software platform using Java, C++, and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, security, technical planning, customer troubleshooting, deployment support, documentation, and engineering leadership. The role requires occasional customer travel and may support critical incidents outside normal business hours.

Build Exoware’s production infrastructure from the ground up, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, recovery, CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, security, and operational tooling. Design reliable systems across Kubernetes, ECS, cloud services, networking, and storage while writing software to automate operations. The role requires architectural ownership, production infrastructure experience, and the ability to improve the underlying distributed systems through production insights.

Leads complex solution design and execution for API integrations and enterprise banking applications. Translates Commercial Banking requirements into scalable application, infrastructure, interface, and integration designs aligned with technology roadmaps. Guides design reviews, manages stakeholders, promotes operational efficiency, and mentors junior engineers. The role spans front-end and back-end development, cloud infrastructure, security, databases, ETL, CI/CD, resiliency, compliance, and high-availability solutions within Microsoft Azure environments.

Lead reliability, performance, and operational excellence for large-scale ad-tech distributed systems. Design and operate monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, automation, and secure production infrastructure. Mentor engineers, influence architecture for production readiness, run on-call rotations, and drive continuous improvement of engineering operations and observability.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications at massive scale. Own the full engineering lifecycle, establish standards for reliability and testing, troubleshoot production issues, influence technical roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep backend development, distributed cloud systems, system design, automated testing, and technical leadership experience.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Lead development of Device OS platform infrastructure connecting industrial machines and applications to Apkudo. Own integration services, APIs, software and model deployment, staged rollouts, rollback, fleet monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, and operator-facing control surfaces. Partner with robotics, AI, design, and operations teams to create reliable interfaces and deployment workflows for heterogeneous distributed devices.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

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

Leads the end-to-end development of an AI-enabled revenue cycle management platform, spanning frontend, backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, data models, and AI agent orchestration. Partners with users, product, operations, and business leaders to deliver measurable outcomes. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, promotes AI-assisted development, and ensures secure, reliable, HIPAA-compliant software through strong testing and monitoring.

Lead enterprise software architecture and full-stack development across operations, supply chain, finance, commercial, and digital functions. Design scalable cloud-native platforms, API-first and event-driven integrations, and resilient enterprise systems using AWS and modern engineering practices. Advise on technology strategy, improve software quality and operational excellence, and mentor engineers. Partner with business and technical leaders to deliver supply chain, procurement, CRM, ERP, and e-commerce capabilities at scale.

Lead a hands-on software engineering effort for Zeta’s real-time events pipeline. Design, build, deploy, and operate high-volume event ingestion, processing, and delivery systems. Own architecture, reliability, observability, performance, cost, data quality, and on-call improvements. Collaborate with Product, Data, and downstream platform teams, define stable interfaces and SLAs, evaluate technologies, lead production launches, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews.

Lead software quality and test engineering for the Dealer Inspire platform. Develop automation strategies and regression suites using Playwright, execute functional, integration, system, security, and performance testing, analyze test coverage and results, establish testing practices, and integrate quality processes into the software development lifecycle. Mentor SDETs and engineers, lead testing initiatives, and collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders.

Lead technical design, build, and maintain secure, scalable software; drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering, automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices; mentor teams, evaluate vendors and SaaS, and translate business strategy into delivery roadmaps.

Lead and architect production-grade trading systems for Credit Pre-Trade Technology, build AI-native platforms, develop and maintain secure scalable code, partner with trading and product teams, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, support production stability and automation, and lead technical evaluations and communities of practice.

Lead technical ownership and resolution of complex production issues; coordinate cross-functional incident response; troubleshoot C#/.NET and JavaScript systems; analyze logs/metrics (Splunk, New Relic); drive reliability, observability, and customer-first improvements while mentoring teams.

Leads architecture, design, and hands-on development for scalable backend APIs and interoperability services. Sets engineering standards, drives cross-team technical initiatives, mentors engineers, reviews code and designs, manages technical risks, and partners with engineering leadership on roadmaps. The role focuses on distributed systems, authentication, cloud SaaS, API integrations, and standards such as FHIR, while contributing production code and fostering collaboration.

Lead and contribute to design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable Java-based enterprise applications. Drive architecture reviews, apply AI-assisted engineering practices, automate remediation, mentor teams, and promote reuse and operational stability across the SDLC.

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.

Leads hands-on development of full-stack applications using .NET, React, Next.js, and Azure. Owns architecture, coding, code reviews, testing, security, reliability, observability, production support, and cloud deployment. Integrates AI and GenAI capabilities such as LLM features, RAG, semantic search, and agentic workflows. Mentors engineers, establishes technical standards, collaborates with stakeholders, supports hiring, and helps deliver scalable, secure software.

Lead and mentor a small software engineering team while setting technical direction, facilitating Agile processes, writing maintainable code, and owning software delivery from requirements through maintenance. Architect reliable databases and secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code. Ensure healthcare data compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST and guide system architecture, API design, security, scalability, and CI/CD practices.