Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own the AI use-case backlog and prioritize agent-assist scale-out. Translate business intent into Epics, Features, and User Stories with explicit acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps. Run sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and demos on a fast-paced AI-infused agile cadence. Leverage AI tooling to draft requirements, generate stories, and author acceptance criteria. Coordinate with stakeholders and transformation advisors to meet call reduction, AHT, and deflection targets.

Design and build backend solutions following architecture and best practices. Develop APIs, web services, database schemas, PL/SQL/stored procedures (DB2/Oracle). Collaborate with senior engineers, participate in code reviews, testing, and coordinate technical delivery across teams. Support CI/CD and improve code quality.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI applications: multi-agent systems, advanced RAG pipelines, LLM integration and fine-tuning, scalable FastAPI backends, vector search, monitoring, and Dockerized deployments.

Design and prototype innovative UX/UI concepts during early-stage product discovery. Collaborate with researchers, creative leads, and product teams to create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes, validate concepts through testing, and present visual narratives and design rationale to stakeholders while maintaining usability and accessibility.

Lead cross-functional programs from planning through post-delivery, aligning work to business objectives. Define MVPs, manage scope/budgets/risks, facilitate stakeholder communication and Agile practices, drive continuous improvement, enable operational handoffs, and measure program success via KPIs while building high-performing teams.

Lead UX design of user interfaces and client experiences using Figma to create wireframes, prototypes, and mockups. Use data and user research to inform designs, run usability testing and workshops, integrate design systems into engineering workflows, communicate design decisions to stakeholders, explore AI tools to improve UX processes, and ensure seamless handoffs while advocating for user-centered, end-to-end solutions.

Design and implement scalable full-stack solutions for institutional platforms. Lead API and microservices design, cloud (AWS) deployments, CI/CD and DevSecOps, collaborate with product and QA, troubleshoot production, and mentor distributed teams.

Lead performance testing efforts: design and execute load tests, analyze results, troubleshoot and drive fixes with dev/infra teams, build workload models, standardize practices, produce reports, and improve system scalability, reliability, and repeatability.

Lead product development for a unified payments platform covering pay-ins, payouts, merchant acquiring, settlement, routing, and reconciliation. Produce PRDs, process maps, API specs, and user stories. Collaborate with engineering, QA, UX, and data teams; manage backlog, sprints, QA/UAT, and releases. Design payment orchestration, multi-rail routing, and operationalize billing, risk, and support. Identify and integrate AI-driven product opportunities.

Lead systems analysis and project delivery for web-based transactional applications in Agile/Scrum environments. Elicit and document requirements, write user stories, track work in JIRA, support contact center integrations (Genesys/telephony), work with APIs and SQL, handle L1/L2 tickets, produce status/reports, and coordinate escalation to L3/L4 to meet SLAs while collaborating with stakeholders.