Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own discovery, planning, and delivery for crypto-native, user-facing products. Research daily crypto users, define requirements, manage the backlog, and ship features with engineering and design. Make data-driven decisions on chains, wallets, and protocols; coordinate with compliance, marketing, support, and operations; and represent the company in crypto communities. The role requires strong product judgment, payments and checkout expertise, practical DeFi knowledge, wallet UX familiarity, and experience driving adoption across distributed teams.

Design, build, optimize, deploy, and maintain Rust-based smart contracts powering a Solana DeFi protocol. Collaborate with engineering, product, and research teams on secure, scalable protocol features; develop developer tooling, SDKs, and integrations; monitor production on-chain services; and independently drive protocol initiatives from research through mainnet deployment. The role requires production smart contract experience handling real funds and strong blockchain and DeFi knowledge.

Design and operate secure, scalable, highly available infrastructure for a low-latency decentralized exchange and blockchain network. Own infrastructure automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes performance, observability, security, incident response, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and reliability practices. Mentor engineers, document systems, and participate in on-call rotations while supporting high-throughput trading workloads.

Drive Near Intents adoption through partner integrations, technical support, documentation, tutorials, SDKs, and reference implementations. Serve as the primary technical contact for developers and ecosystem partners, troubleshoot integration issues, engage communities across multiple channels, conduct workshops and AMAs, advocate for developer needs, and monitor adoption metrics. The role requires strong TypeScript and software development experience, preferably in Web3 or blockchain, with GCP and Kubernetes experience as a bonus.

Principal Frontend Engineer responsible for architecting and maintaining a high-performance, real-time trading web application using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Jotai. The role owns frontend features, optimizes mobile performance, manages real-time data and WebSockets, ensures code quality, and partners with founders and leadership on technology, product, and feature decisions. Experience building interactive trading platforms, particularly in DeFi, is required.

Build and implement the Based Appchain Framework using Go or Rust. Contribute to system and product design discussions, ship engineering projects to production, and represent the company at events, conferences, or podcasts. The role involves working with Ethereum, EVM-based systems, and potentially rollups, shared sequencing, zero-knowledge, and data availability technologies.

Own and optimize CRM data, lead generation workflows, sales and marketing automation, lead scoring, segmentation, database enrichment, integrations, dashboards, and KPIs. Partner with sales and marketing to improve data quality, targeting, nurturing, and deal acceleration. Train teams on CRM best practices, identify process gaps, and implement workflow improvements across the go-to-market technology stack.

Own backend and AI infrastructure for autonomous trading agents. Build the Go-based agent runtime, execution and data layers, real-time trading systems, deployment platform, model hosting migration, telemetry, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Develop production services primarily in Go, Python, and TypeScript while operating AWS EKS infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end ownership of reliable, low-latency systems managing real-time trading and financially sensitive positions.

Own frontend features from concept through launch and iteration. Build web and mobile applications for a wallet-as-a-service platform, develop SDKs and integration tools, and create secure, intuitive fintech-grade user experiences. Collaborate with Product and Design, write documentation, review code, and maintain high standards for architecture, performance, and security.

Lead business development and regional expansion across Africa for a crypto wallet infrastructure provider. Own go-to-market strategy, revenue, ARR, enterprise sales, partnerships, RFPs, negotiations, and client expansion across banks, fintechs, and enterprises. Serve as senior regional representative, build regulator relationships, support post-sale success, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Travel across Africa, monitor market trends, represent the company at industry events, and improve sales playbooks.