Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 technical vision and architecture for Card Tech while remaining hands-on in software development. Modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, ensures scalable and secure implementations, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, and AI-native development, along with leadership of cross-divisional initiatives and talent recruitment.

Leads software engineering and architecture for Card Tech, combining hands-on development with technical mentorship. Defines technical vision, modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, and drives scalable, secure, operable solutions. Partners across divisions, mentors senior engineers, evaluates AI-generated code, and leads architectural strategy and engineering excellence initiatives.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

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.

Lead technical strategy and execution for foundational Trust and Safety systems supporting consumer risk and credit reporting. Design and operate highly available backend systems, improve reliability and monitoring, establish engineering standards, guide complex cross-functional initiatives, and mentor engineers. The role involves ownership of system architecture, technical planning, operational readiness, code quality, and team development.

Lead the technical vision and architectural evolution of Huntress’s Core Platform. Build complex Ruby on Rails features, solve scaling challenges, manage cross-team dependencies, drive architectural decisions, and oversee system lifecycle and technical risk. Mentor engineers, establish engineering excellence, collaborate with managers and product leaders, and help teams adopt AI coding tools responsibly.

Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance software systems and public-facing APIs. Lead system design, apply agentic coding workflows, collaborate with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers, and own initiatives improving efficiency, performance, and customer satisfaction. The role requires extensive experience with highly available distributed systems, API versioning and rate limiting, modern backend and frontend technologies, AWS, and Domain-Driven Design.

Build and maintain software for Ripple’s liquidity management solutions, supporting cryptocurrency-based financial infrastructure. The posting provides no specific responsibilities, technologies, qualifications, or experience requirements beyond the Staff Software Engineer title.

Lead backend architecture and platform modernization for Dealer Inspire. Design and build scalable, API-driven microservices, tooling, and observability. Mentor engineers, drive cross-team standards, improve developer experience, participate in on-call rotations, and modernize legacy systems to meet SLOs.

Leads technical direction for Everand’s backend platform, including architecture, reliability, observability, CI/CD, databases, queues, and scalable distributed systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, web, mobile, and ML teams to deliver personalized reading and listening experiences. Mentors engineers, drives architecture reviews and modernization efforts, improves technical quality, and owns platform health, performance, cost, and resilience.