Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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.

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.

Deliver a great consumer experience through software development and maintenance of eCommerce core platform, leading teams and providing technical guidance.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead major projects, drive architectural innovation, interface with customers for solutions, and mentor engineers. Experience in software engineering and a strong grasp of AI, cloud scale, and evolving technologies is essential.

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.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

Architect and build microservices using Node.js and Rust, work with cross-functional teams to deliver quality customer-focused features, and improve agile processes.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement solutions for the Websites product, collaborate across teams, and innovate on a scalable web platform for restaurants.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and develop high-performance cloud services, resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, ensure engineering best practices, and mentor junior members.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

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.

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.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Design, build, and launch reliability engineering projects to scale production services. Improve scalability, observability, secrets/configuration management, canary-based deployments, and deployment safety. Partner with teams, support critical services, participate in on-call rotations, and promote reliability best practices.

Lead design and delivery of major product areas across web and mobile. Build and improve React/React Native apps, design scalable systems and data models, optimize performance, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in a fully remote environment.