Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads frontend and full-stack development for customer order entry applications using React and Next.js. Owns frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, API integration, automated testing, CI/CD quality, observability, and production reliability. Designs complex transactional workflows, mentors engineers, influences technical direction, and partners with product, UX, architecture, and backend teams. The role is approximately 60% hands-on coding and 40% mentorship.

Leads the modernization of Capital One’s enterprise CI/CD platform, defining technical vision, architecture, API standards, and reusable deployment solutions. Designs scalable cloud, microservice, and event-driven systems; ensures technical quality and operational performance; and contributes hands-on to engineering initiatives. Mentors engineers, promotes engineering excellence, leads cross-divisional architectural projects, and drives modernization, coding standards, and adoption of advanced development practices.

Lead the architecture, development, customization, and integration of NetSuite finance systems supporting accounting, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report processes. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Audit, and Data Engineering teams to implement controls, improve close processes, enhance reporting, ensure SOX and GAAP compliance, and manage integrations. Establish NetSuite engineering standards, mentor engineers, oversee data governance, and provide technical leadership for scalable finance technology solutions.

Develop state estimation and navigation algorithms for autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Build production-grade C++ software for embedded Linux robotic platforms, create modeling and simulation tools, and implement comprehensive testing and validation. Collaborate on roadmap planning and agile execution while improving benchmarking and performance-analysis pipelines. The role requires professional C++ expertise, state estimation algorithm experience, sensor-fusion familiarity, and the ability to deploy reliable autonomy software.

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.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Leads cloud asset intelligence and inventory initiatives, defining technical vision, architecture standards, and platform strategy. Designs scalable, secure, multi-tenant cloud platforms; modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven systems; and applies AI and automation to improve cloud operations. The role drives cross-divisional architecture, engineering standards, operational excellence, and executive influence while mentoring senior engineers and strengthening organizational capabilities.

Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for high-volume global payment systems. Designs scalable, resilient distributed architectures, modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and coding standards, and guides cloud, data, networking, and AI-enabled solutions. Mentors engineers, drives architectural reviews, collaborates across divisions, and ensures system performance, security, operability, and long-term platform strategy.

Leads technical vision and architecture for high-volume digital payments systems. Designs resilient, low-latency cloud platforms; modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven architectures; establishes API and engineering standards; ensures performance, scalability, operability, and implementation quality; mentors engineers; drives cross-domain initiatives; and contributes hands-on technical solutions across the organization.

Design, build, and own large-scale segmentation systems, data pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing dashboard experiences. Lead architecture and product decisions, improve performance, reliability, and cost, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and maintain operational procedures for systems processing billions of users daily. The role requires hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, high-throughput data platforms, and customer-facing products.

Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for high-volume, low-latency payment systems. Responsibilities include architecting scalable distributed platforms, modernizing monoliths into microservices and event-driven systems, defining API and design standards, ensuring performance and operability, mentoring engineers, leading cross-domain initiatives, and partnering with product and architecture leaders on long-term platform strategy.

Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for high-volume global payment systems. Designs scalable, resilient distributed platforms; modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven architectures; establishes API and design standards; mentors engineers; drives architectural reviews, platform transformations, data migrations, and AI-enabled development across engineering and product organizations.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable, reliable, secure software solutions. Translate business and product requirements into technical designs, contribute to architecture decisions, improve testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and resilience, and support production systems. Collaborate across teams, resolve technical issues, mentor engineers, communicate tradeoffs, and influence engineering standards. Responsibilities and leadership scope vary across Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels.

Leads technical vision and software architecture across Capital One, designing scalable cloud, data, microservice, and event-driven solutions. Drives modernization, defines platform and API standards, ensures technical quality, leads cross-divisional initiatives, and mentors engineers. Requires deep experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, web technologies, databases, networking, and full lifecycle delivery.

Lead technical vision and architecture for Card Tech while remaining hands-on as a player-coach. Design scalable, secure systems; modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms; establish API and engineering standards; mentor engineers; evaluate AI-generated code; and drive cross-divisional technical initiatives. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, software development, and strategic use of agentic AI tools.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for high-volume global payment systems. Designs scalable, performant, secure distributed architectures; modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms; establishes API and coding standards; and drives cross-divisional technology initiatives. Mentors engineers, collaborates with architecture and product leaders, evaluates non-functional requirements, and contributes to cloud, data, AI, and payment-network strategy.

Lead firmware and full-stack development for edge AI safety products, spanning embedded systems, Go backend services, and web or mobile surfaces. Own features from customer problem through fleet-scale deployment, establish architecture, optimize AI algorithms for constrained devices, partner with hardware and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact products across more than one million connected devices.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

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 technical strategy and hands-on engineering for Capital One’s customer management platforms. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems into microservices and event-driven architectures, setting platform and API standards, building full-stack solutions, establishing SRE and engineering productivity functions, enabling experimentation and AI-powered product delivery, and mentoring senior technical leaders. The role leads more than 100 engineers while contributing directly to architecture, coding, system optimization, and operational excellence.