Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, completion of a technical training program, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• Strong full-stack proficiency across backend, frontend, and database design, with experience in technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Python, React, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Git.
• Strong mentoring and communication skills, able to manage stakeholders and bridge technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience applying AI and automation to ship faster or scale operations, such as LLM-assisted development or workflow automation.
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
• Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and has prepared you to work with or for Braven’s student Fellow population.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship complex features (60%)
• Scope and lead full-stack initiatives in Python and/or Ruby on Rails across our platform, data pipelines, and program automation, from ambiguous problems to production.
• Make pragmatic architecture and technical design decisions that keep our systems robust, performant, secure, and maintainable.
• Raise the team’s technical bar (25%)
• Review code and architecture proposals, and mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices, and improve our processes and documentation.
• Collaborate and stay current (15%)
• Partner across technical and non-technical teams, participate in scrum and sprints, and integrate the systems our programs rely on.
• Stay informed on industry trends, security, data privacy, and emerging AI tooling, and bring them to the team.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
• $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff