Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of software development experience building and supporting production systems and services.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals.
• Experience owning components or services, including implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin, or ability to ramp up quickly, and familiarity with React.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs, including REST and/or GraphQL.
• Experience working across multiple technical systems or services and ability to debug and deliver maintainable solutions.
• Strong sense of ownership and a track record of delivering solutions end-to-end.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Interest in building scalable, high-performance systems, improving developer and customer experience, and solving complex problems in a fast-growing business area.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building software for advertising technology, marketplaces, or other high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with event streaming or messaging systems such as Flink, Kafka, or similar real-time data processing technologies.
• Experience contributing to architecture and design discussions for services, APIs, and data models.
• Demonstrated ability to improve service quality through performance tuning, observability, and automation.
• Experience using metrics and data to inform engineering decisions and measure impact.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems and/or AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude.
• Experience building customer-facing features, including frontend development with React.
• Background working on large-scale, high-throughput systems or platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for the advertiser portal and third-party integrations.
• Contribute reusable capabilities to the unified advertising platform.
• Own features and services end-to-end, including design, implementation, deployment, and operational support.
• Apply strong coding fundamentals to develop high-quality, maintainable, and extensible solutions.
• Participate in system design, low-level design, API design, including GraphQL, and data modeling.
• Build customer-facing features, primarily backend-driven, with some React frontend contributions.
• Improve scalability, performance, and reliability for high-traffic advertiser systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and globally distributed teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system health using monitoring, debugging, automation, and observability practices.
• Write secure, well-tested code, participate in code reviews, and follow engineering best practices.
• Use AI-enabled solutions and AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness and travel reimbursement
• Travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership