Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and production support of customer-facing full-stack applications using Java, Spring, microservices, REST APIs, and front-end technologies. Mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, coordinates releases across global teams, and drives Agile delivery. The role also applies generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, testing, troubleshooting, and customer experiences.

Lead DevOps strategy, cloud infrastructure architecture, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD optimization, Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring, resilience, and incident management. Manage and mentor DevOps engineers while partnering with engineering, architecture, and product teams to improve automation, security, reliability, and operational maturity across AWS or GCP environments.

Lead the design, development, and support of large-scale Java enterprise applications and cloud-native platforms. Architect microservices, REST APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems; implement CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, security, monitoring, and observability practices. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, support mission-critical production systems, lead incident resolution, and improve reliability and performance across global, regulated-data environments. Preferred experience includes AI/LLM integrations, globally distributed databases, multi-region architectures, and SRE practices.

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to telecommunications carriers and enterprise customers. Design carrier-grade messaging, voice, identity, and fraud-prevention solutions; translate customer needs into scalable architectures and product enhancements; lead technical workshops and architecture reviews; support RFI/RFP responses; and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Business Development, and Customer Success teams to drive adoption and successful implementations.

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.