Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, build, and operate the core data warehouse, ingestion, orchestration, and cataloging platform. Develop batch and streaming pipelines, ensure data quality, governance, observability, and provide ML data platform capabilities. Lead architecture, improve platform reliability and performance, and collaborate with product, engineering, data science, security, and compliance teams.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead day-to-day Product Risk Management operations: identify, assess, mitigate, and report product risks; define processes, standards, and tools; run risk assessments and executive reporting; partner with product, engineering, legal, compliance and auditors to embed ERM and ensure post-launch monitoring and issue remediation.

Lead quality control and assurance for Compliance Operations, perform AML process reviews (KYC, transaction monitoring, screening), drive process improvements, partner with stakeholders and vendors, deliver quality reporting and scale the quality program.

Own strategy and execution of Circle's customer onboarding platform. Lead cross-functional teams to build scalable KYC/KYB/AML solutions, translate regulatory requirements into product requirements, drive platform metrics and transformation, and engage regulators and executives to ensure compliance and efficient market expansion.

Lead Product Designer for Arc Platform defining blockchain-native user experiences, economic clarity, and reusable design systems. Partner with Product and Engineering, set design direction, mentor designers, and ensure usability, trust, and scalability across platform surfaces.

Lead Product Designer for Circle's Identity Team to design platform-level systems like Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. Audit fragmented workflows, create cohesive, scalable UI systems, and craft high-fidelity visual design while balancing security flows (MFA, SSO) and developer/designer consumable components.

Lead regional growth strategy for USDC by building partnerships with exchanges and OTC desks, delivering regionally compliant product initiatives, and creating AI-driven, automated growth platforms. Own experimentation frameworks, dashboards, and metrics to scale liquidity, adoption, and measurable share shift versus competing stablecoins through cross-functional execution and data-driven prioritization.

Lead StableFX product vision and roadmap to enable institutional onchain stablecoin FX execution and settlement. Define core capabilities, partner with engineering, treasury, risk, compliance, and GTM to ship scalable, low-latency, API-first solutions. Drive partner integrations, issuer activation, metrics, and product growth across corridors, pairs, and use cases.