Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Senior individual-contributor full-stack engineer who designs, builds, and ships end-to-end product features. Leads technical direction, modernizes legacy systems, debugs distributed systems, owns production reliability and on-call, and mentors engineers. Drives AI-native development adoption while collaborating with Product and Design and improving team practices, observability, testing, and deployment workflows.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

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.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

Lead design and delivery of major Azure-based data systems and production-grade pipelines. Build semantic models, support BI and ML workloads, drive platform architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and solve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across Fabric, Synapse, Power BI, and broader Azure services.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Technical leader for Android POS and handheld apps: define architecture and roadmap, ensure offline-first reliability and performance, lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, drive developer productivity, and write production code for large multi-module Android applications.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Build and operate Coinbase's LLM and agent platform: design the LLM gateway, agent runtime, knowledge bases, AI spend governance, observability/eval tooling, and ship production agents while partnering cross-functionally to ensure secure, cost-effective, and responsible generative AI at scale.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Own and set technical direction for the Everand backend, building scalable, reliable systems for discoverability, personalization, and core consumption journeys. Drive architecture, platform health (CI/CD, staging, DBs, queues, cost, observability), mentor engineers, lead cross-team planning, modernize legacy systems, and partner with product, design, analytics, web/mobile, and ML to support experimentation and telemetry-driven decisions.

Lead design and implementation of backend services and APIs for payments, billing, settlements, ledgers, and reconciliation. Drive architecture for highly available, auditable financial platforms, integrate with payment processors and banking partners, ensure transactional integrity, observability, and compliance. Deliver end-to-end initiatives, mentor engineers, and operate mission-critical systems with strong emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability.

Design, build, and maintain backend BI tooling, data pipelines, and platform features to generate operational metrics. Improve code quality, scalability, reliability, and performance; implement testing strategies; translate business requirements into technical plans; and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product and stakeholder teams to deliver data-intensive analytics and reporting solutions.

Lead design, development, and deployment of scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native microservices. Own architecture, mentor engineers, run on-call rotations, triage production incidents, optimize performance, and collaborate with product and stakeholders to deliver full‑stack and mobile solutions.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across AI, data, backend, and frontend systems. Drive architecture, remove technical risks, set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and influence cross-team technical direction.