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Backend jobs in Chicago, IL
The newest live backend openings in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, from employer career sites and job boards. Each employer's name shows once you sign in.
- Live openings
- 159
- Matching this page's search
- Median advertised pay
- $155,000
- From 600 postings with pay
Figures as of .
159 live openings match. The 10 newest are listed below with employer names hidden.
Postings that list pay advertise a median of $155,000 a year, from 600 postings with pay as of November 5, 2026.
Newest openings
Live openings from employer career sites and job boards, as of November 5, 2026. Pay is yearly, or as the posting words it when we could not read its figures.
| Job | Location | Pay | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer | Chicago, IL | $244,000 to $253,500 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Enterprise Application Intern (Summer 2027) | Downers Grove, IL | Not listed | November 5, 2026 |
| Full Stack Engineer | Chicago, IL | $92,300 to $135,383 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Principal Software Engineer | Chicago, IL | $244,000 to $253,500 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Dynamics 365 F&O Finance Technical Product Owner | Chicago, IL | $110,000 to $130,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Sr Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Administrator (Remote) | Rolling Meadows, Illinois (remote) | Competitive compensation | November 4, 2026 |
| AWS Cloud Developer | Glendale Heights, IL | $105,000 to $125,000 a year | November 4, 2026 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | Chicago, Illinois | Not listed | November 4, 2026 |
| Senior Software Engineering Manager | CHICAGO, IL | $146,200 to $243,600 a year | November 4, 2026 |
| Platform Engineer - Omnea | Chicago, IL (remote) | $150,000 to $200,000 a year | November 4, 2026 |
More backend jobs
Other backend pages, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Where | Postings |
|---|---|
| Across the US | 36,837 |
| Remote | 6,601 |
| San Francisco, CA | 7,136 |
| New York, NY | 3,570 |
| Washington, DC | 2,478 |
| Seattle, WA | 2,365 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1,251 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,165 |
| Boston, MA | 1,008 |
| Austin, TX | 897 |
| Baltimore, MD | 866 |
Other jobs in Chicago, IL
Other role families with a page here, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Role family | Postings |
|---|---|
| Healthcare | 13,798 |
| Retail | 13,795 |
| Food and hospitality | 12,519 |
| Sales | 4,846 |
| Finance | 4,807 |
| Operations | 4,579 |
| Engineering | 3,995 |
| Skilled trades | 3,590 |
| Education | 3,463 |
| Warehouse and logistics | 3,080 |
| Manufacturing and production | 2,407 |
| Facilities and maintenance | 2,067 |
| Transportation and driving | 1,967 |
| Customer support | 1,860 |
| Marketing | 1,620 |
| Administrative | 1,542 |
| HR and recruiting | 1,269 |
| IT support | 1,001 |
| Project management | 904 |
| Legal | 882 |
| Data | 799 |
| Product and design | 611 |
| Security | 361 |
| Full stack | 223 |
| DevOps | 196 |
| QA | 106 |
| Machine learning | 95 |