Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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160K-210K Annually
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Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of the FCM platform, ensuring financial correctness and system integrity, while modernizing systems and improving operational tooling.
Top Skills: C++GCPGoKubernetesPythonTerraform
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Chicago, IL
195K-258K Annually
Senior level
195K-258K Annually
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Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
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.
Top Skills: AWSBlockchainEcsEksGoGCPJavaKubernetesMessaging SystemsMicroservicesAzureNoSQLRestful ApisSmart ContractsSQLWeb3
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Chicago, IL
195K-258K Annually
Senior level
195K-258K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
Design, build, and operate the core data warehouse, ingestion, orchestration, and cataloging platform. Develop batch and streaming pipelines, ensure data quality, governance, observability, and provide ML data platform capabilities. Lead architecture, improve platform reliability and performance, and collaborate with product, engineering, data science, security, and compliance teams.
Top Skills: Apache FlinkBigtableCassandraGoogle Cloud Dataflow
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Chicago, IL
147K-220K Annually
Senior level
147K-220K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • eCommerce • Food • Marketing Tech • Retail
Deliver a great consumer experience through software development and maintenance of eCommerce core platform, leading teams and providing technical guidance.
Top Skills: ApimAzure AdAzure AksAzure Cosmos DbAzure Sql DatabaseCassandraDockerElastic SearchIstioJavaKafkaPostgresRedisRestful ApiSpring
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Chicago, IL
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AdTech
Architect and build microservices using Node.js and Rust, work with cross-functional teams to deliver quality customer-focused features, and improve agile processes.
Top Skills: AWSGCPGraphQLGrpcMicroservicesNode.jsProtobufRelational DatabasesRust
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Remote
Chicago, IL
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
As a Staff Software Engineer, lead and design complex frontend systems, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction across multiple teams.
Top Skills: DatadogFigmaReactTypescriptWeb Vitals
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Remote
Chicago, IL
193K-309K Annually
Expert/Leader
193K-309K Annually
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Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
As a Staff Software Engineer, lead the design of complex systems, drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and improve operational excellence.
Top Skills: AIJavaKotlin
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Remote
Chicago, IL
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
The Staff Software Engineer will lead design, development, and mentoring in building Embedded Finance capabilities while ensuring high-quality production services.
Top Skills: GraphQLJavaKotlinRest
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Chicago, IL
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
Transportation
The role involves developing high-quality front-end software for freight logistics, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating on customer experience projects using advanced frameworks.
Top Skills: AngularFlutterGraphQLJavaScriptReactReact NativeTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
Transportation
Develop and deliver high-quality front-end software for freight logistics. Lead design, mentor junior engineers, and enhance customer experiences using modern frameworks.
Top Skills: AngularFlutterGraph QlJavaScriptReact NativeTypescript
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Chicago, IL
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164K-328K Annually
Senior level
164K-328K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise Web • Software • Design • Generative AI
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll define Webflow's deployment strategy, enhance developer productivity, and mentor engineers while ensuring system reliability.
Top Skills: Argo RolloutsArgocdAWSCi/CdDockerGitopsKubernetesPulumiTerraform
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Chicago, IL
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151K-297K Annually
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151K-297K Annually
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Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.
Top Skills: C++
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Chicago, IL
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185K-210K Annually
Expert/Leader
185K-210K Annually
Expert/Leader
Healthtech • Software
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdEcsJavaKafkaKubernetesSpringTerraform
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
134K-236K Annually
Mid level
134K-236K Annually
Mid level
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.
Top Skills: C++Generative AiPythonPyTorchReinforcement LearningTensorFlow
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Chicago, IL
193K-309K Annually
Entry level
193K-309K Annually
Entry level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build a new venture from the ground up, collaborating with a small team to create functional prototypes and ensuring flexible architecture, utilizing AI tools for development efficiency.
Top Skills: Ai ToolsAndroidAPIsAutomationLlms
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Remote
Chicago, IL
200K-245K Annually
Senior level
200K-245K Annually
Senior level
Mobile • Real Estate • Software • Database • Analytics
Lead architecture and implementation of a new frontend platform, define org-wide frontend best practices, mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design/backend, operationalize tools and CI/CD, drive cross-team initiatives, and ensure high-performance, maintainable, and accessible frontend systems.
Top Skills: CSSHTML5Javascript (Es6+)ReactTypescript
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Chicago, IL
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
200K-230K Annually
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Computer Vision • Digital Media • Kids + Family • Mobile • Software • Sports
The Staff Software Engineer will enhance video capabilities, support live streaming and storage infrastructure, and collaborate on platform development. Responsibilities include coding, mentoring, and ensuring platform reliability for millions of users.
Top Skills: AWSC#C++GoKotlinNode.jsPythonReactRustSwiftTypescript
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Chicago, IL
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
Lead the technical direction of Care & Onboarding platforms by driving architectural decisions, overseeing large initiatives, and enhancing engineering quality.
Top Skills: Api Lifecycle ManagementGraphQLJavaKotlinReact
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Chicago, IL
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154K-248K Annually
Senior level
154K-248K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise Web • Software • Design • Generative AI
Lead AI feature development, integrate large models, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure technical quality, monitor AI advancements, and build user interfaces and tools for AI applications.
Top Skills: Ai/MlLarge Language ModelsNode.jsPrompt EngineeringReactTypescriptVector Databases
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Chicago, IL
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232K-310K Annually
Senior level
232K-310K Annually
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Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.
Top Skills: Apache IcebergDbtPythonSnowflakeSparkSQLTerraform
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Chicago, IL
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
193K-309K Annually
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Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable backend and enterprise features across Toast’s platform. Lead complex projects, ensure quality with automated tests, roll out and monitor features, collaborate with UX/PM and cross-functional teams, and mentor other engineers.
Top Skills: AndroidJavaKotlin
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Remote
Chicago, IL
165K-300K Annually
Senior level
165K-300K Annually
Senior level
Transportation
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will lead innovative software projects for freight logistics, driving technical vision, mentoring others, and delivering scalable solutions across platforms.
Top Skills: AngularAWSAzureCi/CdDevOpsGCPGraph DatabasesJavaJavaScriptKafkaNode.jsNoSQLRabbitMQReactSpring BootSQL
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Remote
Chicago, IL
207K-243K Annually
Senior level
207K-243K Annually
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Healthtech • Other • Social Impact • Software • Telehealth
The Staff Software Engineer will enhance observability, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and ensure system reliability, collaborating across teams for effective infrastructure management.
Top Skills: AWSKubernetes
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Chicago, IL
150K-190K Annually
Senior level
150K-190K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Software • Transportation
Lead the technical direction of a computer vision platform for sidewalk inspection. Responsibilities include managing ML models, improving data pipelines, and architecting systems for terabytes of geospatial data.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCdkGCPGoJavaPythonTerraformTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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200K-275K Annually
Senior level
200K-275K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.
Top Skills: AuroradbAWSDynamoDBElasticcacheKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
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