Senior Chicago Startup and Tech Jobs

As an editor, you will co-manage Insider Spotlights, which are part of Built In’s employer branding product offering. Insider Spotlights are in-depth Q&A format articles featuring original photography. The articles are designed to showcase employees working at premium employer companies sharing their authentic experiences working within a company or team culture, speaking to their professional growth journeys, as well as sharing the exciting tech innovations being built by their teams. The Insider Spotlight editor will co-manage editorial production, collaborate with writers to produce high-quality and compelling content, and directly manage a team of Insider Spotlight writers.

As a senior staff writer, you will be joining our Brand Studio team, which is composed of writers, editors, designers, strategists and UX experts collaborating each day to develop high-quality content in support of the tech and startup community. We are looking for someone who is a startup lovin’, analytical, tech-crazy writer with a fresh voice and style.

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer (Cloud) to join our Cloud Platforms team. As part of this team, you will provide important hands-on leadership as we design, implement, and operate the public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms that enable our product groups to solve for problems at global scale.

SpotHero is seeking a Senior Engineer to be part of the team working on our operator tools. This team is responsible for building out new features & products that allow Operators (the companies and individuals that own parking lots, garages and individual spots) to manage their spots via custom inventory rules and rule based price management. The perfect candidate for this role understands the importance of having the best tools for our Operators

We are a dynamic team of engineers that iterate on ideas and products for a growing company that is dedicated to building meaningful tech communities. Here, we can provide interesting challenges and puzzles to solve as our technical stack rapidly evolves. You will be able to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that looks to push boundaries. Full stack software engineers work both on the front and back ends of our platform. The tasks you will have will require you to visualize and work with the entire platform. We want to implement solidly-designed systems that function well and provide a beautiful experience for our users. You will be a critical member of our team, regardless of your level of experience, and we want you to grow with us. We have clearly defined paths of progression, whether you want to design systems, manage engineers, or put your head down and code.

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Our mission at Cappex is to help millions of high school students each year realize their dream of getting into the right college for them. We get excited about turning a confusing, stressful process into a simple, organized pursuit for the perfect college fit. Cappex is growing and needs innovators like you to support our mission. Join our team today and help connect students to their dreams. We are looking for a skilled and experienced

Help set the vision, strategy, and execution for part of Built In’s community content. Lead the development and growth of existing and new story types. Work with our team of writers to develop stories focused on trends, people and broader topics in the technology industry. Edit news stories and features as they come in as well as assist with writing headlines. Manage the weekly editorial calendar, ensuring that stories are proceeding according to deadlines. Plan and manage daily operations.

Drive operational excellence and compliance and sets high recruitment standards. Own and implement innovative recruiting strategies that attract diverse, high-quality candidates. Responsible for the ongoing strategy and development of the employment brand. Work closely with all hiring managers on headcount planning and process. Develop varied ways to create talent pipelines, referral generation, events and sourcing campaigns. Identify and engage passive candidates through the use of our own websites, LinkedIn, Indeed and other contemporary search techniques. Create job postings, screen resumes, interview candidates, develop and negotiate offers. Use data and reporting to identify areas of improvement and make recommendations.

Work with variety of data sources - extracting knowledge and actionable information from massive datasets. Develop and apply analytics frameworks to solve large, complex business problems. Design and implement scalable data models for business needs. Be a passionate problem solver - breaking down problems and developing analytical insights. Convey your work and results to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders – nerds and non-nerds. Evaluate process inefficiencies and identify areas where you can create, automate, and develop tools (SQL-based or otherwise). Diagnose data-related bugs and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner. Support the business with ad hoc reporting. Continuously strive for a deeper understanding of our business drivers. Offer insight to all aspects of the organization – product, marketing, engineering and finance.

Lead an engineering team and provide mentorships, reviews and technical guidance. Work with other engineers and technical product managers to write, test, and deploy your code safely and automatically to production. We deploy multiple times a day. We work mostly in Ruby and Javascript (Typescript, React, and GraphQL) along with some Python, R, and Elixir but many employees come from other areas. We want strong programmers and our interview process is unbiased and language agnostic. Be a part of a strong culture of ownership, pragmatism, and testing. We have a culture that treats engineers as both teachers and students, and encourage this by presenting weekly Lunch and Learns, hosting hackathons, and attending conferences. Contribute to open-source initiatives.

SpotHero is seeking an Engineering Manager to manage, shape and grow a consumer focused engineering team. You will be at the helm of an engineering team responsible for building our flagship consumer facing products. You will need to be adept at establishing good engineering practices and processes, overseeing execution of highly visible products, and helping architect one of Chicago’s most trafficked B2C systems. SpotHero is in the midst of building a two-sided marketplace through a strategic application of technology, and we need a leader who can help us execute on this vision.

Rocket Travel, Inc., a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with experience in DevOps and cloud management to join our systems team in our West Loop, Chicago office. Your role will be working directly with the development and analytics teams to help continuously improve and build new tooling for consumption by the broader engineering team. At Rocket, we encourage experimentation, so we're not a one language/one

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Design and develop new features for our Android app. Work closely with Ruby on Rails engineers to design APIs for mobile app consumption. Write automated tests and test infrastructure to support it. Troubleshoot production issues and research solutions to customer feedback. Keep up-to-date with Android design patterns. Collaborate with iOS developer efficiently and effectively.

Complete all development tasks on time and with high quality. Test all work with automated tests written in jUnit, Selenium, Rest Assured. Actively participate in daily standup, and bi-weekly project review and planning meetings. Aid support by responding quickly to help solve escalated support issues. Review Pull Requests. Deploy Releases. Work 3 (weekend) nights per quarter as our technical point of contact for on-site staff. Work 1 (weekend) event per quarter as an Event Specialist.

SpotHero is seeking a Senior Engineer to be part of the team working on our flagship consumer products. This team owns building out new features & products and improving existing ones that allow millions of customers find and book parking seamlessly. Who we are: SpotHero is a fast-growing market leader disrupting the mobility space. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app, website, and connected car integrations to reserve

Lead a team of 6 to 12 through architectural oversight, mentorship, and technical contributions.   Define and lead the teams’ development process.  This includes facilitating efficient meetings such as iteration planning and retrospectives.   Gain a deep understanding of the current architecture to provide a roadmap that mitigates key technical risks and delivers on important business objectives.    Architect, plan, and deliver a high availability voice and video platform.  

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer: We’re looking for someone is who passionate about building a user-centered product that helps kids build critical thinking in a growing education technology start-up. The Senior will have overall ownership of the technology roadmap and the performance of multiple engineering teams. He/she will focus on growing team and individual performance through an agile development process and effective

Lead development of one or more components of Edovo’s software ecosystem while working as part of a cross-functional team. Work full-stack in a rich client web application.   Care for our systems by building automated test suites, monitoring, and alerting. Consider how upcoming growth will impact our systems Design, build, and refine our internal tooling pipeline.