Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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.

Lead requirements gathering, translate business objectives into detailed BRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria, support UX and QA, assist pilot rollouts and training, create reporting frameworks, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver lead-management and CRM integration initiatives.

Lead remediation, selection, and migration of a next-generation PIM platform. Provide technical leadership, design cloud-native architectures, drive integrations, mentor teams, and ensure data governance, scalability, and performance.

Design, build, and maintain Java/J2EE multi-layer applications and APIs. Collaborate with architects and DevOps to implement CI/CD, code quality, testing, and database solutions (DB2/Oracle, PL/SQL). Support cross-team delivery, resolve technical roadblocks, and drive process improvements in an asset management/financial services context.

Lead reverse-engineering of TIBCO BW/MFT processes, document business rules, and reimplement them as modular Java/Spring Boot microservices. Migrate protocols to Kafka/RabbitMQ/REST, ensure data consistency, and perform performance testing to match legacy SLAs.

Lead and execute program strategies across the full lifecycle, managing planning, budgets, resources, risks, KPIs, and cross-functional teams while ensuring customer communication, financial accountability, and continuous improvement.

Build high-performance, real-time Angular UIs for AI-driven agent workflows. Implement SSE/WebSocket streaming, complex state management (Signals/NgRx), observability dashboards, HITL controls, performance optimizations, and collaborate on API/JSON schema design with backend and AI engineers.