Software Engineer Jobs in Illinois, United States

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Associate Software Engineer / Software Engineer

Applied Systems, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time Hybrid $60,000 - $125,000 / year

Epic Engineering at Applied Systems builds robust, scalable software solutions for the insurance industry. As an Associate Software Engineer you will contribute to modernizing the codebase, reducing technical debt, and improving code quality while collaborating with senior engineers.

Last seen Sep 28, 2026
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Senior Associate, Software Engineering: Software Development Test: SDET

Options Clearing

Chicago Full-time Hybrid $86,500 - $117,600 / year

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) seeks a Senior Associate, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET) to support the design, development, and maintenance of automation frameworks and test coverage for enterprise and SaaS systems. Day-to-day work includes building and deploying automation tools with Python and Shell scripting, performing unit testing and defect diagnosis across SAP and Clarity PPM, designing test strategies for platforms like HP NGQ, and debugging ETL pipelines

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Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Akuna Capital

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time On-site

Akuna Capital seeks a Software Engineer – Data Engineering to join its data‑driven team in Chicago. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that support trading, quant, and business operations.

Last seen Sep 28, 2026
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Principal Engineer, Software Engineering

RTX

Rockford, Illinois, United States Full-time On-site $135,262 - $204,500

Power & Controls team at Collins Aerospace designs modern flight systems and critical power solutions. The Principal Engineer leads the design, development, testing, and documentation of embedded control and diagnostic software for safety‑critical power units, providing technical leadership and ensuring compliance with DO‑178C standards.

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Engineer II - Software Engineering

Federal Signal

University Park, Illinois, United States Full-time On-site $68,731 - $98,187 / year

Federal Signal's Engineering team develops low-level firmware that powers electronic hardware devices. The Engineer II designs, implements, and tests embedded C/C++ code, collaborates with hardware engineers, and ensures real-time performance using RTOS.

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Principal Engineer, Software Engineering

RTX

Rockford, Illinois, United States Full-time Hybrid $135,262 - $204,500

Power & Controls team at Collins Aerospace builds safety‑critical flight power and control systems. The Principal Engineer designs, develops, tests and documents embedded control and diagnostic software, leads multidisciplinary research, and ensures compliance with DO‑178C standards.

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Sr Software Development Engineer - AI Engineering

CVS Health

Work At Home-Illinois Full-time Remote $92,700 - $203,940

CVS Health is seeking a Digital Senior Development Engineer to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web and mobile applications. The role involves building test suites using Playwright, Cypress, and JavaScript while integrating agentic AI tools to accelerate workflows.

Last seen Sep 27, 2026
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SR Principal Software Engineer - LLM Engineering

JPMorgan Chase

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time

The SR Principal Software Engineer - LLM Engineering role sits within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial & Investment Bank Trust & Safety Fraud Prevention team. The position sets strategic direction for model serving solutions across LLMs and GNNs, defines MLOps/LLMOps strategies, and drives agentic AI-enabled engineering across the portfolio.

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Lead Software Engineer, Engineering Advocacy Lead

Chase Bank

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time

Payments Engineering & Architecture team at JPMorgan Chase builds and scales payment processing platforms handling trillions of dollars daily. As a Lead Software Engineer, you embed with payment application teams, write production code, conduct gemba walks, present tech talks, and author blogs to drive architecture standards and AI‑assisted development.

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Software Engineer, Quantum Systems & Digital Engineering

Infleqtion

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time Hybrid $145,000 - $170,000 / year

The Software Engineer, Quantum Systems & Digital Engineering role at this organization develops advanced software tools for the design, simulation, integration, and manufacturing of complex quantum systems. Day-to-day work involves building modular software environments that connect models, data, and engineering workflows across RF, optical, mechanical, atomic physics, and other technical domains, with initial focus on digital-twin and design-automation capabilities for quantum sensing systems.

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Software Engineer - Cumberland/FICCO Tools Engineering

DRW

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time On-site $175,000 - $225,000 / year

DRW seeks a Software Engineer for its Tools Engineering team in Chicago. The role involves building and maintaining trading tools for Cumberland and FICC options desks, owning products from prototype to production, and embedding with traders to solve high‑impact problems.

Last seen Sep 28, 2026
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One

Chicago, Illinois, United States Full-time On-site $209,000 - $262,400 / year

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Last seen Sep 21, 2026
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Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)

Options Clearing

Chicago Full-time Hybrid $122,500 - $204,600

OCC's Enterprise Quality Engineering organization seeks an Associate Principal in Performance Testing to design and execute comprehensive performance and failover testing strategies across mission-critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems. This role combines hands-on performance engineering expertise to ensure systems meet regulatory RTO/RPO requirements while handling multi-region failover scenarios and cloud-native architectures.

Last seen Sep 28, 2026
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Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

Snapsheet

Chicago, IL Full-time $130,000 - $165,000 / year

Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering at Snapsheet, a claims technology company focused on simplifying the claims process. The role builds and maintains scalable, resilient services, automates infrastructure, and enhances observability across the platform.

Last seen Sep 15, 2026
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Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One

Chicago, IL Full-time On-site $179,400 - $225,100 / year

Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering) Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment?

Last seen Sep 21, 2026
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Lead Software Engineer, DevOps (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One

Riverwoods, IL Full-time On-site $179,400 - $204,700 / year

Capital One seeks a Lead Software Engineer, DevOps to drive cloud operations resilience engineering and major technology transformations. You will lead diverse projects and mentor developers while delivering robust cloud-based solutions for millions of customers.

Last seen Sep 21, 2026
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Software Engineer Jobs in Illinois: FAQ

How many Software Engineer jobs in Illinois are open right now?

10,000 Software Engineer jobs in Illinois are live on NextGig, all seen active within the last 45 days. The list refreshes daily as new roles are posted and filled ones drop off.

Which companies are hiring for Software Engineer jobs in Illinois?

Employers with current openings include Applied Systems, Inc., Options Clearing, Akuna Capital, RTX, Federal Signal, CVS Health, and others. Every listing links straight to the employer's application page.

What do Software Engineer jobs in Illinois pay?

13 of the 16 newest listings disclose pay, for example $60,000 - $125,000 / year at Applied Systems, Inc., $86,500 - $117,600 / year at Options Clearing, $135,262 - $204,500 at RTX. Open a listing for the full compensation details.

Are any of these roles remote?

Of the 16 newest listings on this page, 1 is remote and 5 are hybrid. The work model is shown on each job card.