Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation for cloud cost visibility, infrastructure efficiency, reliability, engineering productivity, and financial accountability. Analyze workloads and billing data, implement AI- and analytics-enabled forecasting and anomaly detection, develop cloud-native services, and support capacity planning, cost allocation, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Data, Platform, SRE, Architecture, and Product teams while testing, troubleshooting, documenting, and communicating recommendations and business value.

Lead full-cycle development of API and web applications, from architecture and design through deployment and support. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to set technical direction, deliver secure and scalable solutions, improve developer productivity, and support Agile delivery. Responsibilities include code reviews, troubleshooting, documentation, observability, automation, quality measurement, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, deploys, and supports scalable backend software and web applications. Builds RESTful APIs with Django, contributes to architecture, documents technical work, and supports production services using Kubernetes, EKS, and AWS. Mentors junior engineers, collaborates with stakeholders and QA, evaluates performance metrics, supports releases, and presents technical decisions to internal and external audiences. The role requires independent judgment and occasional nights or weekends.

Develop and maintain scalable backend services for programmatic advertising platforms. Responsibilities include designing REST APIs, analyzing requirements, integrating and releasing software, managing production deployments, troubleshooting complex issues, collaborating with QA and cross-functional teams, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and promoting reliable engineering practices. The role requires Python and Django expertise, PHP experience, AWS and Kubernetes/EKS experience, and on-site work in Chicago twice weekly.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Leads architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of scalable backend services and APIs for customer address data. Drives technical strategy, distributed systems standards, observability, reliability, incident response, and performance optimization. Partners across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams; establishes reusable platforms and engineering practices; mentors engineers; leads design and code reviews; and contributes hands-on to complex enterprise solutions.

Architect and scale enterprise software for experimentation, audience segmentation, and customer journey decisioning across marketing and messaging platforms. Build high-performance, AI-powered systems using machine learning, agentic workflows, distributed streaming, and personalization. Partner with data science, product, and engineering teams; mentor engineers; and drive technical excellence, experimentation, and innovation.

Leads software engineering projects and development teams building distributed microservices and full-stack systems. Delivers cloud-based solutions, collaborates with product managers, supports regulatory needs, mentors engineers, evaluates code, and promotes modern technology adoption. The role uses multiple programming languages, relational and NoSQL databases, containers, orchestration platforms, and cloud services.

Leads software engineering projects and developer teams building distributed microservices and full-stack systems. Develops cloud-based solutions using multiple programming languages, databases, container orchestration, and AWS services. Partners with product managers to deliver customer and regulatory solutions, mentors engineers, evaluates emerging technologies, and promotes engineering community participation. The role also involves people management, Agile practices, and using AI tooling to improve productivity.

Lead software engineering projects and development teams building full-stack, distributed microservices and cloud-based solutions. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, evaluate code, and guide technology transformation initiatives. Develop solutions using Go, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, SQL, React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, and NoSQL technologies while addressing regulatory and customer needs.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable enterprise applications and distributed systems using Java, Python, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and Google Cloud Platform. Lead complex technical initiatives, optimize performance and reliability, build CI/CD pipelines, support containerized deployments, troubleshoot production issues, and improve observability. Collaborate cross-functionally, participate in Agile ceremonies, conduct design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to secure, resilient software solutions.

Leads software engineering within an agile banking technology team, designing, developing, testing, debugging, and operating secure, scalable Java applications. Reviews code, improves automation and continuous delivery, resolves recurring operational issues, and promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices. Evaluates architectural solutions with vendors and internal teams while guiding technical delivery, resiliency, cloud-native development, data streaming, and secure software practices.

Lead software engineering delivery of secure, scalable, cloud-native microservices applications. Design and develop production code, review and debug others’ work, resolve technical issues, improve application resiliency, automate recurring remediation, and support zero-downtime releases. Collaborate within agile teams, apply domain modeling and modern architectural patterns, lead technical communities of practice, mentor others, and drive adoption of effective engineering practices.

Design and build scalable services, APIs, and data models for content and catalog systems. Lead system and low-level design, drive end-to-end delivery, collaborate with product and architecture teams, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, and safely integrate AI/ML into content workflows.

Build backend APIs and distributed services for Expedia Group’s advertising marketplace. Develop campaign management and optimization systems, improve reliability and performance, integrate generative AI and machine-learning features, and collaborate with product, design, data science, and engineering teams. The role includes automated testing, observability, architecture contributions, operational improvements, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering scalable cloud-based solutions.

Own full-stack cart, checkout, and order-confirmation initiatives from technical design through production measurement. Build accessible web experiences with TypeScript and modern frameworks, resilient Python APIs and services, stateful transaction workflows, and reliable integrations. Improve performance and completion through experimentation, observability, feature flags, and customer data. Collaborate with product, UX, analytics, platform, and commerce teams while contributing code reviews, testing, documentation, mentoring, and operational readiness.

Lead the architecture, development, governance, reliability, security, and optimization of a Databricks lakehouse platform. Design data models and ingestion pipelines, tune Spark and SQL workloads, establish observability and operational practices, implement CI/CD and testing standards, and mentor engineers. Partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable data capabilities while guiding responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools and validating their security, correctness, and performance.

Lead technical design and delivery of Appian solutions for Retirement & Wealth: build process models, SAIL interfaces, records/data fabric, integrations (REST/SOAP, Salesforce, SQL Server), enforce development standards, mentor developers, manage CI/CD and deployments, troubleshoot production issues, and communicate status and risks to stakeholders and leadership.

The Software Engineer will enhance data collection for AI model training, manage cloud infrastructure, and collaborate on dataset roadmaps.

Leads software engineering projects and development teams building full-stack, distributed microservices and cloud-based solutions. Collaborates with product managers, mentors engineers, evaluates emerging technologies, and delivers systems supporting regulatory needs and customer experiences. The role uses multiple programming languages, open-source databases, container orchestration, and major cloud platforms.

Leads software engineering projects and development teams building distributed microservices, full-stack systems, and cloud-based solutions. Designs technology solutions supporting regulatory needs and customer experiences, collaborates with product managers, evaluates and writes code, mentors engineers, and promotes modern technology adoption. The role requires expertise in backend development, cloud computing, databases, container orchestration, open-source frameworks, and Agile practices.

Leads software engineering teams, architects scalable systems, ensures code quality through reviews and best practices, collaborates cross-functionally to deliver projects, and drives technical innovation. The role requires advanced database and SQL expertise, software architecture knowledge, project leadership, and 6+ years of development experience or an equivalent education and experience combination. U.S. citizenship is required, and government access authorization may be required.

Lead full-stack software engineering for customer onboarding across mobile, web, and backend systems. Provide technical leadership to development teams, deliver cloud-based microservices, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and address regulatory needs. Build and orchestrate multi-agent workflows using advanced AI frameworks and tools while leveraging modern programming languages, databases, containers, and cloud services.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.