Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and support scalable, resilient Java-based big data applications for financial market clearing and risk systems. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, software design, development, testing, documentation, performance and security improvements, risk analysis, production support, and collaboration with analysts, architects, product owners, and developers. The role uses cloud, distributed computing, messaging, microservices, DevOps, database, monitoring, and Agile technologies.

Supports enterprise quality governance by analyzing requirements, creating and executing manual and automated test cases, reporting software defects, maintaining regression suites, and validating testing compliance. The intern will automate regression testing for Ovation and Enterprise Technology Solutions applications, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and provide testing input during retrospectives.

Manage a software engineering team building the Ovation Risk Platform. Lead architecture, design, development, performance management, and cross-functional delivery. Design fault-tolerant Kafka and Flink event-streaming systems, integrate AI and machine learning, optimize PostgreSQL databases, and provide technical product ownership. Apply expertise in options exchange operations, trade lifecycles, and clearing workflows while developing target-state architectures and complex enterprise solutions.

Leads software test automation strategy and development, including designing frameworks, writing automated tests, building CI/CD pipelines, validating APIs, databases, Kafka messages, and distributed systems. Defines test plans, analyzes defects, manages test environments and data, improves QA processes, supports complex applications, coordinates team workloads, and mentors team members while ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.

Lead hands-on development and delivery of Java web applications supporting high-volume financial markets. Responsibilities include backend, UI, DevOps, coding, testing, troubleshooting, security, production readiness, system integration, technical leadership, architecture decisions, and recommending technologies. The role collaborates with technical and business stakeholders in an agile environment while improving reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Principal Platform Engineering individual contributor responsible for advancing cloud platform reliability, observability, SRE practices, infrastructure as code, cloud efficiency, and performance. The role defines observability roadmaps, drives DORA and reliability metrics, improves incident and postmortem practices, supports highly available AWS environments, mentors engineers through technical influence, and ensures regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include capacity planning, technology roadmaps, production changes, on-call support, documentation, and escalation management.

Supports and administers enterprise network infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include routing and switching, firewall and load-balancer administration, Cisco ACI management, troubleshooting, network architecture, cloud connectivity, security and compliance changes, documentation, business continuity planning, and coordination with vendors and engineering teams on complex implementations. Provides on-call support and contributes to infrastructure automation and maintenance.

Architects and maintains enterprise test automation frameworks across frontend, API, backend, database, and messaging layers. Leads functional, integration, regression, performance, and load testing; develops reusable Selenium, Cucumber, and TestNG components; validates microservices and business-critical workflows; and builds CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. Establishes testing strategies, manages test environments and data, analyzes defects and results, and improves BDD testing practices and quality processes.

Seasonal intern supporting enterprise technology quality assurance by analyzing requirements, creating and executing manual and automated test cases, maintaining regression suites, reporting software defects, and participating in Scrum ceremonies. The role focuses on application quality, testing-process compliance, and automation using programming languages and AI tools.

Supports Kubernetes clusters, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Assists with Terraform-based automation, monitoring, security best practices, troubleshooting networking and storage issues, high-availability requirements, documentation, and operational procedures. Collaborates with engineering, platform, development, operations, and security teams while developing hands-on infrastructure and cloud skills in a production environment.