Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and scale Braze's core data object systems, including high-scale ingestion pipelines and backend infrastructure. Develop full-stack features, optimize system performance and costs, and lead complex engineering initiatives. Collaborate in an agile team, apply strong software design and algorithms knowledge, and use AI-assisted tools across product delivery. The role requires technical leadership, communication, organizational skills, and experience building software at scale.

Lead technical architecture and large, cross-team software initiatives for Braze’s messaging orchestration platform. Build foundational backend systems, scalable web interfaces, frameworks, and platform services using Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React. Mentor engineers, improve reliability and observability, support evolving messaging channels, and deliver hands-on code for complex, high-impact projects.

Lead the Messaging Experience engineering team responsible for Braze’s Canvas and Campaign workflows. Set engineering direction, own a multi-year roadmap, improve front-end quality and delivery speed, develop engineers and technical leads, hire team members, and partner with Product and Design to deliver polished, customer-focused web applications.

Lead the design, development, rollout, and operation of Decisioning Studio integrations and distributed data pipelines. Build fault-tolerant ingestion and activation systems supporting batch, files, APIs, streaming, arbitrary schemas, multi-region deployment, compliance, and high-volume enterprise data. Own production reliability, observability, incident response, architecture decisions, and technical direction while collaborating with data science and product teams and mentoring engineers.

Build and own features for Braze’s high-scale user segmentation system. Develop Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend functionality, optimize MongoDB and ClickHouse queries, and work with large-scale data. Own medium-sized projects from requirements through production, collaborate with product and design teams, write automated tests, review code, and participate in on-call support. The role requires strong software fundamentals, database experience, ownership, and effective communication.

Design, build, and own large-scale segmentation systems, data pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing dashboard experiences. Lead architecture and product decisions, improve performance, reliability, and cost, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and maintain operational procedures for systems processing billions of users daily. The role requires hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, high-throughput data platforms, and customer-facing products.

Build, maintain, and evolve Braze Currents, a Kafka-based data export and streaming system processing tens of billions of messages daily. Lead projects from concept through production, improve high-scale distributed systems, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and address challenges involving Kafka, microservices, and full-stack development.

Build and maintain highly scalable email infrastructure delivering billions of personalized emails monthly. Develop features, REST APIs, preference-management pages, reporting systems, and dashboards. Improve performance and resilience, architect critical components, and provide technical guidance. Collaborate with engineers on design, implementation, and agile delivery while supporting large-scale systems.

Lead the Landing Pages engineering team, overseeing product vision, architecture, software delivery, and team development. Partner with product and design to prioritize features, validate adoption using usage data, and scale web experiences, APIs, integrations, hosting, and reporting. Recruit, coach, and retain engineers while guiding major technical decisions and contributing code when appropriate.

Lead technical strategy for high-stakes enterprise deals: define future-state architectures, navigate security and data governance stakeholders, identify technical blockers and scalable workarounds, and create reusable best-practice blueprints for large-scale Braze deployments.