Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

Develop and enhance backend systems, collaborate with teams for project execution, and improve engineering standards and processes.

Responsible for leading a team of engineers, supporting product development, identifying technical issues, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in backend systems at scale.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Design and implement CIAM backend services for authentication and authorization. Integrate identity systems, manage secure flows, and automate infrastructure.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Provide technical leadership for partner integrations (e.g., Shopify, Stripe), design solutions, manage project plans and timelines, support external partner technical questions, produce integration documentation, serve as SME/escalation point, recommend platform and tooling improvements, and collaborate with engineering and commercial teams to execute long-term partnership initiatives.

The role requires leading a backend engineering team to develop Affirm Card platform solutions, collaborating cross-functionally, and fostering a high-performance culture.

Design and build a centralized reliability platform and developer-facing APIs. Implement AI agents for incident triage, log/trace summarization, and recommended actions. Own projects end-to-end and collaborate with product, infra, data, and SRE teams.