Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, architect, implement, test, and launch scalable Java payment services processing high-volume airline transactions. Lead complex technical projects, improve platform robustness and scalability, collaborate across teams and with product management, and mentor engineers. Build RESTful and SOAP web services, design performant relational database models, and apply event-driven or message-queue architectures.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for mobile payments and terminal experiences. Architects payment solutions spanning mobile apps, SDKs, terminals, and distributed backend systems; resolves reliability, performance, security, and compatibility challenges; establishes APIs and architectural boundaries; aligns Product, Design, Legal, and technology partners; mentors engineers; and advances observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Lead the evolution of Adyen's merchant onboarding process by architecting systems that optimize activation and compliance, utilizing applied AI to automate merchant document interpretation and KYC processes.

Lead a Chicago-based engineering team to design and operate Adyen's credit card payments platform for NORAM. Drive strategy, architecture, scalability, and resilience; partner with product; coach and mentor engineers; and ensure high engineering standards across Visa, Mastercard, and Amex integrations.

Develop and maintain Kotlin-based payment terminal and SDK solutions deployed across Android, Linux, and backend environments. Build payment features, integrations, and business logic for cards, mobile wallets, and QR codes. Contribute to C++ libraries, automated testing, debugging, and product stability. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders while mentoring teammates through reviews and debugging. The role is office-first in Chicago.

Leads an engineering team building Adyen’s issuing and banking products. Responsibilities include defining the technical roadmap, hiring and developing a new team, providing technical authority, managing execution and technical debt, partnering with product and commercial stakeholders, and shaping customer-focused financial product capabilities at scale.

Responsible for designing, implementing, managing and maintaining data storage systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and disaster recovery.

Lead and build a new engineering team within Adyen’s Issuing organization. Own the technical roadmap for card-issuing products, provide technical authority, coach engineers, manage performance, and ensure high-quality execution. Partner with product, commercial, operations, clients, banks, vendors, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable API-based financial services. Shape product strategy, address technical debt, uphold engineering standards, and support expansion of issuing capabilities.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for mobile and terminal payment experiences. Defines architecture and long-term strategy across mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems. Leads complex reliability, performance, security, and compatibility initiatives; establishes APIs and integration patterns; aligns Product, Design, Legal, and external partners; mentors engineers; and advances observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and tooling for Android and iOS apps. Automate builds, caching, quality checks, security scans, and device-farm testing. Collaborate with developers and on-prem infrastructure teams (Kubernetes, Hashicorp, private cloud) to ensure reliable SDLC tooling, monitoring, and alerting.