Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead growth strategy and execution for a consumer product with global ambitions. Build awareness, acquire users, and engage communities across Reddit, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook groups and nomad networks. Design and run growth experiments, optimize funnels (activation, retention, referrals), and scale community-led acquisition with high autonomy in an early-stage environment.

Lead growth from 0→1 for a consumer fintech/payments product by owning acquisition, activation, retention, referrals, and viral loops. Run rapid experiments, engage communities, form partnerships, and execute unconventional attention-driven tactics alongside founders to drive first highly engaged users.

Design, build, and own an AI-native outbound revenue engine using Clay and other outbound tools. Build agentic workflows, multi-source enrichment, signal-based triggers, and personalized outreach across email and LinkedIn. Define and optimize ICPs, align GTM with the CBO, and own pipeline metrics from outreach to revenue.

Own full sales cycle selling cross-border payments and banking infrastructure to US enterprise fintechs. Generate pipeline from an existing network, lead technical discovery and solution design, negotiate commercial terms, coordinate implementation, and represent the company at industry events.

Lead end-to-end growth for an autonomous AI trading agent platform: own acquisition funnel, channel execution (onchain/social), activation/retention, CAC/LTV economics, product collaboration, and developer/community ecosystem building to scale agent deployments and trading volume.

Lead architecture and development of a high-performance, responsive trading web app using React/Next.js/TypeScript. Own features, optimize performance (mobile-focused), integrate real-time data/WebSockets, maintain clean code, and collaborate with founders and cross-functional teams to drive product decisions.

Design and build agentic systems and production infrastructure for an AI-driven financial intelligence platform. Integrate LLMs, manage prompts and tool-calling, develop RAG and retrieval systems, build MCP servers and observability, run LLM evaluation pipelines, optimize performance and cost, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and own data-driven dashboards and backend services for DeFi risk analysis. Develop React frontends, GraphQL APIs, and cloud-native data pipelines. Collaborate with research and protocol teams, mentor junior engineers, drive architectural improvements to the Alert Portal, ensure code quality through testing and reviews, and identify product and technical enhancements.

Lead design and implementation of highly scalable, secure backend services and APIs. Define architecture for databases and microservices, own projects end-to-end, resolve reliability/performance issues, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, and align technical strategy with product and security requirements.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for a blockchain wallet backend. Lead automation with Terraform and CI/CD, run containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes), implement observability (Datadog), tune SQL/NoSQL databases, optimize Node.js services, configure secure enclaves, and align infrastructure with product and security teams.