Top Hybrid Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, evolve, and optimize Scala-based, low-latency trading services. Lead architecture for scalability and performance, tune JVM/Akka systems, enhance observability, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating cross-functionally to support 24x7 high-volume trading.

The Junior Software Engineer will develop and optimize trading systems in C++ and Python, focusing on OS-level performance and real-time application in a collaborative trading environment.

As a Senior Staff Engineer at Braze, you will lead technical initiatives in the Channels division, ensuring effective message delivery, mentoring engineers, and enhancing architectural quality while actively contributing to software development.

Lead development of pricing web applications using React/Next.js front ends and Java/Kotlin back ends. Build reusable components, optimize performance and scalability, integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services, containerize with Docker/Kubernetes, enhance CI/CD, collaborate with data, product, and design teams, and troubleshoot production distributed systems.

Manage an engineering team building and supporting a high-scale video advertising platform. Lead full SDLC activities, review designs and code, provide technical leadership, troubleshoot production issues, document technical requirements, and collaborate with global product and operations teams.

Contribute to high-scale production software for an e-commerce company, working on customer-facing features and automation, while advancing to technical leadership roles.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, lead AI-assisted development, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. They will own projects and make architectural decisions while mentoring peers.

Build and maintain scalable backend and platform services for a content management system using .NET, Python, and AWS. Implement RESTful APIs, messaging, graph and search integrations, and AI/LLM-enabled features (tagging, summarization, semantic search). Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, apply engineering best practices, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and platform reliability.

Design, build, and maintain backend services using Java/Spring Boot and cloud infrastructure. Develop RESTful APIs, microservices, ETL/data pipelines, tests, and CI/CD. Improve performance, reliability, and security, triage production issues, participate in architecture, and help onboard and mentor team members.

Lead ServiceNow platform architecture, performance tuning, and scalable integrations. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to optimize reliability, monitor KPIs, troubleshoot performance and SQL issues, conduct platform audits, and provide strategic guidance on capacity, resilience, and engineering best practices.