Senior Software Engineer

Chicago Blackhawks•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer with the Chicago Blackhawks, you’ll be a part of a small team, building end-to-end web applications, data pipelines, and services that power our sales, marketing, and operational teams. This is the role for a builder: you’ll take ambiguous business problems and own them from concept to production, working across the front-end, back-end, and data layer with a level of autonomy and breadth you won’t find on a larger team. The right candidate is a hands-on engineer who is energized by wearing multiple hats, solving problems, and learning new skills and stacks - and is excited to build the next generation of Blackhawks data and digital products.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
4+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience
Proficiency across both front-end and back-end development in a production environment
Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one back-end language (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go)
Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, or Angular)
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake), and transformation/orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Prefect).
Experience developing and utilizing cloud-based architecture to solve complex needs
Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
Familiarity with AI-first development, and tools like Claude Code
Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with designers, product owners, and fellow engineers
Self-starter able to identify challenges, chart solutions, and execute improvements
Ability to understand business requirements and develop technical solutions to support departmental needs
Ability to manage priorities and coordinate tasks to solve day-to-day challenges in a dynamic environment
Strong communication skills with ability to demonstrate clear, concise articulation of scenarios, options, risks, mitigations, and recommendations
Ability to adapt to occasional variations in schedule including working nights, weekends, and holidays as business needs dictate based on the event calendar.
Must demonstrate our organizational values of integrity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, and originality

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Azure Cloud tools a plus

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain responsive front-end interfaces and robust back-end services for internal and fan-facing applications.
Develop and integrate RESTful APIs that connect applications, data sources, and third-party platforms.
Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code across the full stack, owning features from concept to production.
Collaborate on code reviews and uphold engineering standards for quality, performance, and maintainability.
Act as the Director of Engineering’s primary technical partner, helping shape the team’s roadmap, standards, and architectural direction.
Take ambiguous business problems and own them end-to-end - scoping, designing, building, and shipping with minimal oversight.
Help model engineering standards for a small team through code review, best practices, and documentation.
Design, build, and maintain ELT pipelines from diverse data sources into the data warehouse and to other tools.
Optimize data extraction, loading, and transformation processes for performance, scalability, and application.
Build and optimize Salesforce CRM solutions to empower sales and marketing teams with actionable data and seamless integrations across platforms.
Identify automation opportunities to enhance data processing and onboarding efficiency.
Deliver short-term user wins while building infrastructure for long-term success.
Consistently build documentation to ensure efficient communication across the team.
Identify opportunities for refactoring code to simplify codebase, reduce costs, or improve processing.
Develop secure, privacy-compliant solutions for all data processing and storage operations.
Ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) for handling sensitive user data.
Implement security best practices such as encryption, access control, and monitoring.
Partner with departments (revenue, marketing, IT) to understand needs, define roadmaps, and develop solutions.
Foster collaboration using Agile methodologies and shared project management tools (e.g. Clickup, Github, AzureML).