Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Designs, builds, deploys, tests, and maintains reliable software systems. Responsibilities include solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, coordinating application integrations, improving performance and scalability, resolving production incidents, and addressing customer needs. Requires strong software architecture, automated testing, communication, analytical, documentation, and teamwork skills, plus proficiency in a typed object-oriented programming language and experience working in a SaaS environment.

Leads Network Engineering and Systems Engineering teams while remaining hands-on with infrastructure architecture and operations. Owns Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, BGP, MPLS, data center networking, Linux, Kubernetes, cloud integration, automation, observability, incident response, and reliability strategy. Partners with security, compliance, software, and data teams to operate regulated hybrid infrastructure supporting financial data connectivity. Builds teams, evaluates technologies, drives architectural decisions, and ensures carrier-grade availability and compliance.

Design, implement, test, deploy, and monitor scalable backend services and high-availability processes. Lead architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, drive feature lifecycles, improve code quality and testability, and respond to customer issues. Contribute to Agile planning and documentation across domains while addressing performance, scaling, and systemic problems.

Leads technical strategy, architecture, operational excellence, mentorship, and multi-team software delivery. Designs maintainable distributed systems using microservices, improves monitoring and operational maturity, drives innovation, and collaborates with stakeholders across departments. Requires 9+ years of enterprise software development experience, public-cloud expertise, strong leadership, communication, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Develop and maintain scalable, highly available software across the full SDLC. Lead design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of backend services and major features. Contribute to architecture, performance, quality, and system scalability; resolve systemic issues; document requirements; and support customer needs. Mentor engineers, lead technical breakdowns, participate in Agile practices, and work with cloud platforms, messaging systems, machine learning, and distributed data technologies.

Software Development Interns learn development tools and programming practices while collaborating with mentors and peers. They complete coding tasks, participate in design discussions and code reviews, document and test software features, incorporate feedback, and develop knowledge of the team’s business domain. The role requires Java programming, analytical and problem-solving abilities, strong communication, teamwork, organization, attention to detail, and current enrollment in a four-year Computer Science or related degree program.

Collaborates with mentors and software teams to design, implement, test, document, and review software features. Learns development tools and programming practices, completes simple coding tasks, participates in design discussions and code reviews, incorporates feedback, and develops business-domain knowledge while pursuing quality solutions.

Collaborates with mentors and peers to design, implement, test, document, and review software features. Learns development tools, programming concepts, team practices, and business-domain knowledge while completing simple coding tasks and contributing to design discussions and code reviews.

Design, build, and operate highly available, secure infrastructure for a multi-tenant financial SaaS platform. Lead automation (IaC), Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, observability, connectivity for market/custodian feeds, incident escalation and RCA, capacity planning, compliance (SOC 2/ISO27001), cost optimization, and mentor engineers.