Kim Conway

Updated on April 05, 2024

By tapping into common emotions and experiences, these seven local leaders are leaving a lasting impression on women — both in their companies and the surrounding tech industry.

Mia Goulart

Updated on March 26, 2024

Workplace challenges are inevitable, but they don’t have to lead to burnout. Here’s how one product leader keeps his developers content around the clock.

Kim Conway

Updated on April 05, 2024

By tapping into common emotions and experiences, these seven local leaders are leaving a lasting impression on women — both in their companies and the surrounding tech industry.

Mia Goulart

Updated on March 26, 2024

Workplace challenges are inevitable, but they don’t have to lead to burnout. Here’s how one product leader keeps his developers content around the clock.

Built In Staff

Updated on September 08, 2023

Business outcome pressures notwithstanding, smart technology leaders know they have to provide both informational and psychological support their team members need to stay on track and actually enjoy their work.

Eva Roethler

Updated on December 28, 2022

Five women from Chicago-based companies share tips for becoming better leaders in tech.

Whether it’s the company’s mission, opportunities for professional growth or interesting tech challenges, everyone wants something different from their work

With Chicago's history as a central trading and banking city, the biggest institutions have inspired a generation of talented, tech-minded financial professionals to build startups that use tech to solve the industry's biggest problems.

These 14 Chicago leaders are looking for curious and collaborative engineers, data scientists and product experts.

June 2018: There's no shortage of software engineer and developer jobs in Chicago, but the following companies are hiring small armies. Everyone on our list has multiple open software jobs open now, so if you're looking for a new opportunity, you're in the right place.

Progressing your career and remaining an individual contributor don’t have to be mutually exclusive ideas.

Kim Conway

Updated on November 08, 2021

Learn how local professionals are developing their careers with the support of their employers.

Built In rounded up 11 companies that are looking for fresh talent.

Eva Roethler

Updated on May 24, 2021

Creating a team culture of mentorship helps engineers at every level of their careers grow

Built In Chicago connected with Denise Dunlap, chief people officer at PEAK6, Taylor Katzman, chief executive officer at Provi, and Taylor Somach, vice president of merchant relationships at PerkSpot, to learn their secrets for developing — and maintaining — employee loyalty. They shared how creating open lines of communication, developing personal relationships and encouraging idea development has led to high employee retention rates. 

Built In Chicago connected with two local leaders to learn about the steps they and their companies are taking to get more women in leadership roles through support groups, training and processes to encourage a more equitable culture from top to bottom.

Nurturing engineering talent requires a great deal of commitment from any company, and the leaders at PEAK6 want to play their cards right. Through trainings, affinity groups and events with the greater tech community, the company hopes to give more women the skills they need to advance.

The company is also growing closer to home. It currently has 30 open positions listed in Chicago, with available roles including a chief operations officer, senior engineer, senior project manager and more.

Are you ready to shine? Here are seven Chicago-based companies currently looking to hire talent ready for a new challenge.  

In this two-part series, we aim to provide a platform for female Chicago technologists to share the stories of how they got into engineering, the biggest challenges they’ve faced and their advice to the next generation of women in tech.

Getting to know your team is a great way to work better together, and sometimes that bonding is best done outside of the office.

To land solid entry-level talent, companies need to offer more than cool swag and competitive pay.

We spoke with fintech experts from a range of companies to learn more about the trends shaping their industry.

DECEMBER 2018: There’s never a bad time to start searching for a career you’ll love. To help you on your journey, we’ve curated nine Chicago tech companies that are all seeking top talent right now.

We spoke to senior leaders at four companies about what resources or incentives they offer staff to help them advance their skills sets and, ultimately, their careers.

We asked engineers at two Chicago tech companies about how their hackathons are structured, and what they’ve learned from their most recent projects.

As Chicago’s tech community has grown, so has the demand for UX and UI designers. This demand is driven by companies both large and small which gives UX and UI designers a wide variety of potential landing places to pick from.

A great office not only makes work a more enjoyable place for employees to spend time, but can help them stay productive, creative and engaged. If you’re looking for a new job, you probably don’t want to work a place with peeling paint. We found some sweet spots that Chicago tech companies call home.