Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own the architecture, development, reliability, and operations of fiat and cryptocurrency on- and off-ramp infrastructure. Lead a small engineering team, build Node.js and TypeScript payment services, integrate banks, partners, and EVM smart contracts, and ensure resilient settlement, reconciliation, observability, security, and incident response. Partner with Product, Compliance, and Finance to deliver the ramps roadmap while mentoring engineers and maintaining production systems.

Own end-to-end US payroll and multi-state tax operations for Rise and its client employers. Responsibilities include payroll processing, federal, state, and local filings, remittances, agency registrations, year-end reporting, tax notices, reconciliations, compliance controls, SOP development, client support, and collaboration with product and engineering teams to improve the payroll platform.

Own the strategy, delivery, and outcomes for Rise’s ramps and identity products. Lead engineering leads, prioritize roadmaps, manage banking and payment providers, expand payment corridors, improve transaction reliability and economics, and build identity verification, attestation, and federation experiences. Partner closely with the CTO, compliance, finance, operations, support, and external stakeholders while defining technical product direction across payments, reconciliation, onboarding, and identity.

Owns company-wide security operations, cloud and infrastructure security, incident response, zero-trust architecture, blockchain treasury controls, compliance, privacy, production reliability, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, represents the company to auditors and customers, and builds security automation across GCP, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Ethereum infrastructure.