Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own cross-team, platform-level engineering initiatives end-to-end: architecture, migrations, observability, on-call, and customer outcomes. Drive AI-native tooling and agentic AI adoption, mentor senior engineers, and set technical standards across teams.

Lead technical design, build, and operate scalable, secure healthcare integration systems. Drive architecture, event-driven distributed systems, APIs, observability, IaC, CI/CD, incident response, cross-functional delivery, and mentor engineering teams.

Build and operate billing and payments services using Node.js/Go and Vue.js. Develop integrations with payment and accounting systems, ensure runtime reliability on AWS (SQS, Lambda), drive CI/CD and automated testing, write design docs and runbooks, mentor engineers, and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.

Design, build, and deploy scalable, containerized backend systems in Scala for a low-latency trading platform. Architect and maintain microservices on Kubernetes, integrate market data feeds, implement monitoring/logging, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver resilient production services. Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and maintenance.

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead full‑stack engineering efforts to design, build, and operate production healthcare systems. Own epic-level features, mentor engineers, design for reliability and scalability, integrate with partners, and ensure launch readiness across backend (Java/Groovy), frontend (React/TypeScript), data (MongoDB), and event-driven pipelines (Kafka).

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Design, build, and maintain Scala-based backend services for evaluation, risk, and trading workloads (real-time auto-liquidation, account state, post-trade). Own end-to-end features, evolve actor-based systems (Akka/Pekko), design Postgres schemas (JSONB), diagnose production incidents, drive code quality, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor juniors, and contribute to architecture and modernization decisions.

Seeking a Software Engineer with 3+ years experience in software development, programming (Go, Java, C++, C#), and strong analytical skills.

Lead design and delivery of cloud-native Java/Spring adjudication services. Decompose legacy systems, build APIs, ensure observability, reliability, and security. Drive CI/CD, containerized deployments, AI-assisted engineering, cross-team coordination, documentation, and production support for high-volume transactional claim workflows.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead projects for the Forms platform, designing and building features across web, mobile, and backend systems while mentoring other engineers and improving platform scalability and reliability.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Collaborate with a distributed team to develop, maintain, and modernize the Landscape management software for Ubuntu, focusing on quality code and automated testing.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve automation workflows, and mentor junior engineers in a security-focused development environment.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

Design and build end-to-end web and AI-powered dashboard features, scale cross-platform full-stack infrastructure, standardize product patterns, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and collaborate with product and design to improve user workflows and AI adoption.

Build and operate scalable backend services and integrations for chat, voice, and agent-assisted support. Improve reliability, performance, and AI-driven capabilities; collaborate across product, design, AI, and operations; mentor engineers and lead technical design and architecture.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Saga, Deepgram's voice OS. Develop backend services (Node.js, Socket.IO, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify), frontend interfaces (TypeScript, React, Next.js), and scalable REST/GraphQL APIs. Participate in architecture, code reviews, performance optimization, and translate product requirements into iterative deliverables.

Design, build, and iterate patient onboarding systems and registration/eligibility flows. Own end-to-end projects, run experiments, optimize for performance, correctness, and resilience, and provide technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Analytics.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives; build and maintain AI-driven systems; mentor and raise the technical bar across teams; collaborate cross-functionally; ensure data security and HIPAA-compliant practices; operate in an AWS + Kubernetes environment while introducing new technologies as system load grows.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.