Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead cross-functional programs from planning through delivery, manage budgets and stakeholders, ensure quality and customer satisfaction, maintain program status reporting, and follow SDLC and project management best practices.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain backend components and large-scale cloud-based systems. Write tests, perform code reviews, debug, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable APIs, microservices, and reliable production software in an agile environment.

Develop and maintain scalable Python backend applications and RESTful APIs. Optimize performance, design and manage SQL/NoSQL schemas, implement security/authentication, write tests, automate CI/CD tasks, and collaborate with front-end, product, and QA teams.

Support consulting teams by conducting primary and secondary research, analyzing data, building financial models and dashboards, and preparing clear client deliverables. Participate in client meetings and workshops, collaborate with cross-functional teams, monitor industry trends, and contribute to firm knowledge and best practices.

Lead QA efforts by developing and maintaining automated test suites, performing manual testing, training squads on test management, improving test coverage, and collaborating to enhance application stability and release readiness.

Design, maintain, and execute automated and manual tests to ensure product quality. Develop and sustain test automation suites and frameworks, train squads on test management, improve test coverage, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with development and business partners to increase application stability and release readiness.

Lead UX architect for a retail platform modernization, creating high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes for Search, Quoting, Inventory, and Payment workflows. Optimize interfaces for POS and handheld devices, ensure API-driven UI behavior, steward the design system, validate via usability testing, and mentor junior designers through rapid build cycles.

Design and build Java/J2EE Spring-based APIs and multi-layer applications; develop web services and database schemas (DB2/Oracle) with PL/SQL; participate in code reviews, unit/integration testing; coordinate technical deliveries across teams and support CI/CD and DevOps collaboration.

Design and build automation frameworks and evaluation pipelines for agentic AI products. Develop non-deterministic tests, golden datasets, tool-use validation, prompt regression tests, latency/token monitoring, hallucination detection, and collaborate with AI engineers to convert requirements into measurable automated test cases.

Reverse-engineer TIBCO BW/MFT processes to extract business logic, then design and implement a modular Java/Spring Boot microservices replacement. Migrate protocols to Kafka/RabbitMQ/REST, translate XML transformations, ensure data persistence and consistency, and validate performance to meet existing SLAs.