Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Proactively source and engage top technical talent using creative channels beyond LinkedIn (GitHub, communities, referrals). Craft tailored outreach, maintain multiple pipelines, use AI-enabled sourcing tools to scale personalization, partner with hiring managers, and track channel performance to improve hiring outcomes.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Build and maintain full-stack features on a product-oriented team, owning product areas end-to-end. Ship customer-facing functionality, design and optimize data models and schemas, work with React state management, relational databases, cloud services, event streaming, caching, and AI tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, take high ownership, and occasionally support mission-critical work outside normal hours.

Build and scale the platform infrastructure to support mortgage origination: design cloud architecture, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based systems, manage databases, implement observability and incident response, and create internal developer tooling to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting for Engineering, Product, and Design: source and screen candidates, manage offers and negotiations, build AI-assisted sourcing pipelines, partner with hiring managers to define roles and interview processes, track recruiting metrics, and develop hiring rubrics and leveling criteria. Deliver an exceptional candidate experience and help scale the Talent function.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for a mortgage lending platform. Own backend responsibilities from design through production, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-service architectures while collaborating with product and full-stack engineers.

Lead end-to-end enterprise implementations of Vesta's mortgage LOS from sales handoff through post-go-live. Serve as product expert and solutions consultant, manage cross-functional teams, create project plans and documentation, mitigate risks, and build strong customer relationships to ensure successful deployments.

Provide L2/L3 technical and product support to enterprise customers for a customizable Loan Origination System. Investigate logs and configurations, reproduce issues, triage to Product and Engineering, document Help Center content, and advocate product/process improvements. Participate in occasional after-hours incident coverage and biannual offsites.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for GTM (Sales, Implementations, Customer Success, Marketing); partner with GTM leaders on role definition and structured interviews; build proactive candidate pipelines; leverage AI tools for outreach and job descriptions; track recruiting metrics and manage offers to close.

Lead Vesta's mortgage compliance function as the company's first compliance hire. Own regulatory interpretations, advise product on compliant design, ensure AI products meet investor and regulatory requirements, and support sales, implementations, and customer success with regulatory guidance. Monitor changes to mortgage regulation and translate requirements into product and customer action.