IT Software Engineer 4

3Core Systems , Inc • Chicago Heights, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the architecture, design, development, and testing of modern software solutions, prototypes, pilots, and reusable platform capabilities. Evaluate, prototype, and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, cloud-native services, APIs, automation, and data-driven application patterns.

Translate business opportunities, product goals, and technical requirements into scalable software designs, solution patterns, technical roadmaps, and implementation plans. Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, facilitate design reviews, and promote experimentation, learning, engineering excellence, and responsible technology adoption.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, data scientists, cybersecurity, infrastructure, UX, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals and risk expectations. Define technical evaluation methods, including proof-of-concept success criteria, performance measures, quality gates, automated testing, monitoring, and production-readiness reviews. Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration needs, security considerations, and operational constraints early, and recommend practical mitigation strategies.

The role is based ideally in Chicago, with other listed locations in Peoria, Irving, Texas, and Broomfield, Colorado; 100% remote work is also an option. The Chicago work environment is described as 2–3 days per week in the office. For the other offices, in-person work is on an as-needed basis. A full return to the office could occur at any point. The assignment duration is 12 months.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field and 8 or more years of experience in this capacity, or no degree and 10 or more years of experience in this capacity.
• Knowledge of decision-making processes and techniques, with the ability to analyze situations and make informed decisions.
• Knowledge of software development tools and activities, with the ability to produce software in line with product requirements.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and ability to use a structured methodology to deliver and manage software products.
• Knowledge of software integration and ability to design, develop, and maintain interfaces and links to other platforms and software packages.
• Knowledge of software product design and ability to convert market requirements into product designs.
• Knowledge of software product technical aspects and ability to design, configure, and integrate them.
• Knowledge of software product testing and ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies to ensure quality and adherence to requirements.
• Progressive software engineering experience, including hands-on development of complex applications, distributed systems, APIs, platforms, or cloud-native services.
• Ability to lead technical work across requirements analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Go, or similar languages.
• Experience designing scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable software using modern architecture patterns, APIs, automated testing, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization, infrastructure automation, integration patterns, and production support practices.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to engineering, product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or integrating AI, machine learning, generative AI, large language model, agentic, retrieval-augmented generation, vector database, or prompt-based solutions.
• Experience taking emerging technology concepts from proof of concept through pilot, production hardening, governance review, adoption, and operational support.
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices, model evaluation, guardrails, data privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, and enterprise risk management.
• Experience with modern cloud services, serverless architectures, Kubernetes, microservices, event-driven architecture, API management, observability platforms, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience partnering with product, design, data, security, architecture, and business teams to identify high-impact use cases and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction without direct authority, and establish reusable engineering standards, patterns, frameworks, or accelerators.
• Advanced degree, cloud certification, AI/ML certification, software architecture certification, or demonstrated contribution to technical communities, open-source projects, patents, publications, or internal innovation initiatives.
• Equivalent practical experience may be considered in place of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and testing of software solutions, prototypes, pilots, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Evaluate, prototype, and apply emerging technologies, including AI-related technologies, cloud-native services, APIs, automation, and data-driven application patterns.
• Translate business opportunities, product goals, and technical requirements into scalable designs, solution patterns, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, facilitate design reviews, and foster engineering excellence and responsible technology adoption.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, data science, cybersecurity, infrastructure, UX, and business stakeholders.
• Define evaluation methods and criteria for proofs of concept, system performance, quality gates, testing, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration requirements, security considerations, and operational constraints; recommend mitigations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior