Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and operate reusable cloud data-platform infrastructure across engineering teams. Design, secure, monitor, optimize, and maintain relational, NoSQL, columnar, streaming, and analytical data systems. Establish database, schema, access, backup, recovery, privacy, and observability standards; improve infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling; and guide datastore selection and architecture. Lead cross-team initiatives, reduce technical debt, mentor senior engineers, document best practices, and influence technical strategy without direct management authority.

Manage a portfolio of campaign and service-level partners using Murmuration’s Organizer platform and related tools. Responsibilities include onboarding, ongoing adoption, troubleshooting, support coordination, partner meetings, training, documentation, feedback collection, and cross-functional project leadership. The role helps partners use data and analytics effectively, execute campaigns, resolve issues, and maximize the value of Murmuration’s products and services.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of a Civic Engagement product, establishing engineering practices and overseeing technical strategy across multiple teams and systems while ensuring product reliability and security.

Lead end-to-end data science projects including predictive modeling, algorithm design, and data pipelines. Build campaign-focused models (turnout, partisanship), perform exploration and visualization, translate insights into memos/presentations, collaborate with engineering to productionize models, mentor junior data scientists, and prototype emerging AI solutions for product impact.

The Data Success Manager supports partners’ data needs for civic engagement campaigns. Responsibilities include understanding partner requirements, establishing relationships, managing data processes, resolving data issues, coordinating vendors and technology partners, recommending data improvements, and supporting efficient database operations. The role requires SQL, Python or similar scripting, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. Experience with voter data, PII, data quality, stakeholder training, and BI tools is preferred.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Manage and grow contributed-revenue pipeline through grant writing, reporting, donor communications, prospect research, and pipeline tracking. Collaborate with Communications, support fundraising strategy, maintain Salesforce records, and assist with events and development operations.

Murmuration is seeking passionate individuals to join their team in civic tech. Candidates are encouraged to submit applications for future opportunities, with qualifications depending on specific roles.