Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Hands-on full-stack technical lead building Angular components and Java REST services with Spring Boot and Hibernate/JPA. Mentor engineers, define standards, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure accessibility, CI/CD, and deliver scalable, testable solutions.

Lead strategy and development of agentic AI products, define roadmaps for autonomous agent workflows, specify agent requirements and use cases, design evaluation and benchmarking frameworks, craft human-agent UX, educate stakeholders, and coordinate cross-functional teams to prioritize RAG, memory, tool-use, and reliability.

Full Stack/Frontend Developer building responsive, accessible, high-performance UIs with React or Vue, integrating with Java/Spring Boot backends. Design component-based architectures, manage state, consume REST APIs, write UI tests, use modern frontend tooling and CSS methodologies, work in CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate within Agile teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of scalable, secure Agentic AI platforms. Design multi-agent systems, run technical POCs, implement RAG and evaluation frameworks, optimize performance, define MLOps/CI/CD standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and stakeholders.

Build high-performance, real-time Angular frontends for AI-driven agent interfaces. Implement SSE/WebSockets streaming, complex state management with Signals/NgRx, visualizations of agent chain-of-thought, human-in-the-loop controls, performance optimizations, and collaborate with backend/AI engineers on API schemas.

Lead discovery, ideation, and strategic creative direction for digital experiences. Facilitate workshops, define experience vision and storytelling frameworks, develop high-level concepts and brand expression across digital platforms, present to executives, and mentor design and content teams to ensure creative excellence.

Build and maintain responsive, accessible, high-performance frontend applications using modern frameworks. Contribute to greenfield and legacy modernization, follow code quality best practices, leverage AI-assisted tools and LLM prompting, collaborate with product, design, and backend teams, and ensure reusable components, cross-browser compatibility, and performance optimization.

Design intuitive, responsive web and mobile interfaces: create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups; build and maintain design systems; conduct user research and usability testing; ensure accessibility (WCAG) and brand consistency; collaborate with product managers and developers to implement user-centered solutions.

Lead and produce design deliverables (branding, comps, style guides, layouts). Drive information architecture and content structures, set objectives for projects, coordinate offshore resources, ensure technical feasibility, and collaborate with developers to translate designs into production.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Java (Spring) and Python (Django/FastAPI). Implement REST/GraphQL APIs, optimize SQL and NoSQL databases, develop microservices, ensure security (OAuth2/JWT), write tests, improve performance, and collaborate with frontend and DevOps teams in Agile processes.