Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Hands-on technical leader for the iOS mobile app: define architecture and engineering standards, own iOS CI/CD and releases, improve observability and security, integrate push/identity/deep links, mentor distributed iOS teams, collaborate with backend/product, and support production incident response and hotfixes.

Lead design, development, and deployment of scalable API-driven and event-driven backend services. Ensure code quality, reliability, and frequent safe production changes. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, address performance and scalability, and support hiring and reviews while adopting lean practices.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

The Staff Software Engineer leads technical teams across product lines, ensuring architectural consistency and mentoring others. Responsibilities include providing oversight, collaboration, and hands-on project involvement, while also addressing long-term technical risks and fostering professional growth.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Own and modernize the governance domain (auth, roles/permissions, orgs, billing) as a Staff-level backend IC: set architecture, refactor for scale and AI-native workflows, write critical-path code (70-80%), mentor engineers, and partner with product to deliver enterprise-grade governance and compliance features.

Design, build, and operate Rust services powering Scribd’s large-scale Content Library and core infrastructure. Own features end to end, evolve Python tooling, optimize DataFusion, Parquet, S3, caching, and PostgreSQL/Aurora systems, and strengthen governance through lineage, authorization, and deletion controls. Lead cross-functional technical projects, support platform users, mentor engineers, improve developer workflows, and maintain production reliability through observability, on-call, and incident response.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

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.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Hands-on staff engineer who architects and builds backend systems integrating AI into insurance claims products. Modernize legacy platforms, design multi-tenant relational backends, prototype and productionize features, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and Data Engineering.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Designs, develops, debugs, optimizes, and validates firmware and system software for high-performance IoT platforms across Linux, Android, and real-time operating systems. The role involves embedded programming, automated and unit testing, multi-core architecture debugging, architectural collaboration, cross-disciplinary feature development, and cloud-based validation at scale.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Lead design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable backend services and APIs. Mentor engineers, drive technical strategy, ensure code quality, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused solutions using modern cloud, containerization, and lean development practices.

Lead modernization of legacy .NET applications into cloud-native .NET services. Drive architecture, design scalable APIs, improve performance and resilience, embed observability and secure-by-default patterns, mentor engineers, and support high-severity incidents while collaborating with Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Operations teams.

Lead design, development, and deployment of high-performance native and Flutter mobile apps. Define mobile architecture, mentor engineers, optimize performance and integrations, ensure code quality and CI/CD, collaborate with product and engineering leaders, and drive technical strategy across web and mobile platforms.

Lead iOS technical architecture and standards, own CI/CD and release processes, improve observability and security, integrate push/identity/deep links, mentor distributed iOS team, collaborate with backend/product, and support incident response and hotfixes.

Technical leader for Android-native POS and handheld apps: define architecture, ensure offline-first reliability, drive cross-squad initiatives, mentor engineers, improve performance and developer productivity, and ship resilient, high-scale hospitality workflows.