Backend Developer Salary in Chicago

Backend Developer jobs in Chicago hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $194,693/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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West Monroe

westmonroe.com
westmonroe.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • Management Consulting • Est. 2002 • Trust A • Hiring 81, 7 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • Management Consulting • Est. 2002 • Trust A • Hiring 81, 7 new
West Monroe is a business and technology consulting firm that advises clients on strategy, operations, technology implementation, data and AI, and value creation in mergers and acquisitions. Founded in 2002, it serves private equity firms and companies in sectors such as consumer and industrial products, energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare and technology, with offices across the United States and in London. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Kevin McCarty · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Susan Stelter · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Tom Bolger · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Doug Armstrong · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Senior Architect, Software Engineering and AI, US

$203k – $239k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • In office (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, United States) • Architect
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Microsoft Fabric
Snowflake
Databricks
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LangGraph
Windsurf
AutoGen
Vertex AI
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Cline
Semantic Kernel
AWS Bedrock
CrewAI
Anthropic
Cursor
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
Copilot
RAG
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Simplex Trading

simplextrading.com
simplextrading.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • 51-200 employees • Est. 2004 • Trust B • Hiring 4
HQ: Chicago, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • 51-200 employees • Est. 2004 • Trust B • Hiring 4
Simplex Trading’s technology team transforms the strategies conceived by our traders into efficient, scalable code.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 703 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer

$125k – $200k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (Chicago, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
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Stripe

stripe.com
stripe.com • HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Payment Processing & Gateways • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust B • Hiring 686, 40 new
HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Payment Processing & Gateways • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust B • Hiring 686, 40 new
Stripe is a financial infrastructure company founded in 2010 by the Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, dual-headquartered in South San Francisco and Dublin. Its APIs let businesses accept payments, run marketplaces, issue cards, manage subscriptions and handle tax and compliance without building banking integrations themselves, and it processes well over a trillion dollars of volume a year for customers ranging from startups to the largest technology companies. Beyond payments the company has expanded into treasury and issuing, revenue and finance automation, stablecoin infrastructure through its Bridge acquisition, and fraud prevention powered by its own machine learning models.
John Collison · Co-Founder & President · decision-maker
Patrick Collison · Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Robert McIntosh · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Carmel Galvin · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Backend Engineer, Core Technology

≈ $121k – $250k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Chicago • Remote (United States) • Junior
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Amazon DocumentDB
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WorldQuant

worldquant.com
worldquant.com • HQ: Old Greenwich, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • Trust B • Hiring 84
HQ: Old Greenwich, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • Trust B • Hiring 84
Headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, WorldQuant is a global quantitative investment management firm and hedge fund. The company develops and deploys systematic trading strategies, predictive algorithmic signals ("alphas"), and data-driven portfolio management models across global equity and financial markets. By combining advanced machine learning, massive financial datasets, and a distributed international network of quantitative researchers, it systematically identifies market inefficiencies to generate consistent, risk-adjusted investment returns.
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Software Engineer - Trading Systems

$150k – $250k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (New York, Austin, Chicago, United States) • Middle
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Backend Developer Salary in Chicago
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What salary do Backend Developer jobs in Chicago pay?
The average salary is around $194,693 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Backend Developer jobs in Chicago?
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