Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Chicago, IL, United States

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Job Information

Job Identification

210801145

Job Category

Software Engineering

Business Unit

Corporate Sector

Posting Date

10/20/2026, 01:33 PM

Locations

10 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US

Job Schedule

Full time

Base Pay/Salary

Chicago,IL $137,750.00-$185,000.00

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus

Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Build and operate 24x7, tier‑1 online services

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

Strong core engineering skills: hands‑on coding and system design for modern enterprise systems.

Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Java, Go, C++

Proven track record building and operating 24x7, tier‑1 online services.

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Familiarity with open‑source projects in the OLAP/data stack: Apache DataFusion, DuckDB, Apache Arrow Flight SQL.