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In-Office
Chicago, IL
119K-160K Annually
Senior level
119K-160K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Internet of Things • Software
Lead design and delivery of cloud-native .NET/Azure systems, modernize legacy apps, integrate AI services, mentor engineers, enforce secure best practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure scalable, observable, and testable solutions.
Top Skills: .NetAksAngularAzure Api ManagementAzure App ServicesAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure Container AppsAzure DevopsAzure Event GridAzure FunctionsAzure Key VaultAzure OpenaiAzure Service BusC#DockerGithub ActionsGithub CopilotKafkaOauth2OidcOwaspReactSQL ServerVue
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Remote
Chicago, IL
190K-220K Annually
Senior level
190K-220K Annually
Senior level
Biotech
Lead software engineering efforts for the Proton platform, focusing on system design, mentorship, and innovative drug discovery projects. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance engineering processes and standards within a minimalist organizational structure.
Top Skills: AWSDjangoDockerKubernetesPostgresPython
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
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200K-240K Annually
Senior level
200K-240K Annually
Senior level
Sports
The Lead Software Engineer will own full-stack development, DevOps, and cloud operations, building scalable analytics-driven applications for internal teams and clients, while mentoring a small engineering team.
Top Skills: Apache AirflowAWSDockerNode.jsPythonReactTerraform
8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Chicago, IL
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Software
The Lead Software Developer will oversee a team developing clinical trial software, manage project deliveries, and engage hands-on in coding and system design, ensuring high-quality output and mentoring team members.
Top Skills: .NetC#SQL
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Remote
Chicago, IL
112K-186K Annually
Senior level
112K-186K Annually
Senior level
Fashion
Lead design, build, and maintain CRM and MarTech integrations and services; lead technical discovery and execution; mentor engineers; collaborate with marketing and cross-functional teams; ensure system stability and participate in on-call rotations.
Top Skills: AWSCdkCdpCloudFormationCRMEmailGoogle Tag ManagerGraphQLKafkaPostgresPush NotificationsReactRuby On RailsSidekiqSmsTerraform
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Remote
Chicago, IL
140K-199K Annually
Senior level
140K-199K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Lead Software Engineer will architect and develop backend services for risk operations, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while implementing monitoring solutions.
Top Skills: .NetAzure Cloud Native TechnologiesC#ConfluenceCosmosDockerGithub CopilotJIRAKubernetesPostmanRestful ApiSQL ServerVisioVs CodeWeb Services/Web Api
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
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125K-207K Annually
Senior level
125K-207K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Analytics • Consulting
The Lead Software Engineer will design and develop scalable software solutions, mentor other engineers, and guide implementation decisions to deliver maintainable solutions combining technical and business needs.
Top Skills: AngularAzureGitGradleJavaJSONMavenPythonRest ApisSpring BootSQL
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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215K-245K Annually
Senior level
215K-245K Annually
Senior level
Productivity • Software
Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and services. Improve performance, reliability, and deployments; operate production systems (incident response rotation); conduct code reviews; mentor engineers; collaborate with product, sales, and customers.
Top Skills: Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLPostgres
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Healthtech • Hospitality • Telehealth
The Lead Software Engineer will design and implement scalable web and mobile applications, mentor engineers, and drive technical projects across platforms.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGCPJavaNode.jsNoSQLReactSQLTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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186K-258K Annually
Senior level
186K-258K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Machine Learning • Social Impact • Software
The Principal Software Engineer will define technical roadmaps, guide system architecture, mentor leaders, and drive product direction in Capital Supply operations.
Top Skills: AISoftware Engineering
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Remote
Chicago, IL
94K-160K Annually
Mid level
94K-160K Annually
Mid level
Healthtech • Pharmaceutical
Lead software engineer responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Edifecs solutions, handling EDI transactions, and coaching a team of engineers.
Top Skills: AWSCloud FormationDynamo DbEamEc2Edifecs SpecbuilderElbGroovy ScriptLambdaMap BuilderRdsS3Swf
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
Robotics
Lead the design and scaling of Serve's robotics data infrastructure, managing the lifecycle of data and mentoring engineers to enable real-time analytics and operations.
Top Skills: BigQueryC++DataflowDbtDockerGCPGcsGoKubernetesPub/SubPython
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12 Days AgoSaved
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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166K-215K Annually
Senior level
166K-215K Annually
Senior level
Fintech
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will optimize the pre-purchase experience, implement AI-driven onboarding solutions, and enhance application performance while collaborating across teams to improve user conversion rates and experiences.
Top Skills: AWSAws CdkCloudFormationDockerGithub CopilotKubernetesMongoDBNextjsNode.jsPostgresReactTypescript
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
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121K-201K Annually
Senior level
121K-201K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Analytics • Consulting
Lead development of enterprise data platform services, design and deliver scalable APIs and platform capabilities (Python/FastAPI/AKS/Databricks), mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices, CI/CD, testing, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to enable AI-ready data systems.
Top Skills: Azure Kubernetes Service (Aks)Ci/CdDatabricksFastapiGitPytestPythonRestful ApisSQLSvnUnittest
13 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Chicago, IL
132K-165K Annually
Senior level
132K-165K Annually
Senior level
Edtech
Lead the technical direction of a new product team, focusing on system design, feasibility, and performance. Mentor engineers and drive quality standards.
Top Skills: Automated TestingAWSCi/CdRuby On Rails
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
116K-204K Annually
Senior level
116K-204K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, mentor DevOps engineers, and improve system reliability while fostering collaboration and continuous learning.
Top Skills: .NetAnsibleAWSAzureAzure DevopsAzure FunctionsBashDockerGitJavaJenkinsPowershellPythonTerraformTravis Ci
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Remote
Chicago, IL
129K-178K Annually
Senior level
129K-178K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Lead Software Engineer oversees the design and delivery of foundational services for real-time recommendations while mentoring teams and ensuring robust, auditable systems using advanced state management and transactional patterns.
Top Skills: DebeziumFlywayHibernateJavaJooqJpaKotlinLiquibaseMySQLNode.jsOpenapiOpentelemetryPostgresPythonTypeormTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
129K-178K Annually
Senior level
129K-178K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Lead Software Engineer designs and maintains a high-performance decision engine, focusing on low-latency services and robust API development while ensuring compliance and observability. Responsibilities include managing rules execution, performance engineering, and leading technical reviews.
Top Skills: AntlrDroolsGoogle CelIbm OdmJavaKafkaKotlinNettyOpaPythonSpring Boot
15 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
146K-264K Annually
Senior level
146K-264K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Lead a team developing cloud-native security solutions, focusing on application development, architectural decisions, and maintaining high security standards.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGCPGoKubernetesNode.jsPython
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Senior level
Marketing Tech • Software
As a Senior Software Engineer at Aspire, you'll lead the development of user-facing features, manage complex projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product functionality.
Top Skills: Auth0DatadogDjangoDockerGitGoogle Cloud DatastoreGoogle Cloud SqlGoogle Cloud TasksGoogle Error MonitoringGoogle Kubernetes EngineGraphQLJIRANode.jsPostgresPythonReactRollbarStackdriver LoggingStorybookTypescriptVs Code
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Remote
Chicago, IL
120K-145K Annually
Senior level
120K-145K Annually
Senior level
Software • Design
The Lead Software Engineer designs and develops application modules, enhances company productivity, writes tests, and collaborates on IT initiatives.
Top Skills: FastapiJavaScriptMicrosoft Sql ServerPythonReactSQLTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics • Financial Services
Lead development of AI-powered full-stack applications, mentor engineers, define technical direction, build performant front-end and scalable backend services, integrate LLMs/RAG, and establish engineering best practices for production AI workflows.
Top Skills: AWSAzureGCPLlmsNode.jsPythonRagReactTypescript
Reposted 21 Days AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
160K-240K Annually
Senior level
160K-240K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The Senior Software Engineer, Java - Technical Lead will lead software development, architecture decisions, and mentorship in building scalable IT operations solutions.
Top Skills: AWSC++GoJavaKotlinPostgresRedis
4 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
Chicago, IL
135K-169K Annually
Senior level
135K-169K Annually
Senior level
Automotive • Digital Media • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech
As a Lead Frontend Software Engineer, you'll architect and develop solutions for automotive commerce, focusing on performance, accessibility, and AI integration, while leading the team in a greenfield project.
Top Skills: Claude CodeCSSHTMLNext.JsReactRestful ApisTypescript
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
116K-204K Annually
Senior level
116K-204K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
The Lead Product Software Engineer will develop AI solutions, collaborate with teams, and lead projects focused on customer-centric product development using Agile methodologies.
Top Skills: AgileAIBddChatgptGithub CopilotHugging FaceJavaScriptLangchainLlmsMlopsNlpOpenai ApisPythonTddTypescriptVector Databases
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