Developer Jobs in Illinois
Developer jobs in Illinois are in strong demand, with openings concentrated in fintech, enterprise software, healthcare technology, and e-commerce across experience levels from entry-level to principal engineer. Chicago anchors the market as one of the most active tech hiring metros in the Midwest, with additional clusters in Schaumburg and Naperville where major technology centers operate. Employers like Motorola Solutions, Allstate, and Discover Financial Services maintain deep developer workforces in the state, with consistent demand in full-stack, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering specialties. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
We have a wide variety of career opportunities around the world - come find yours.
The United IT team designs, develops, and maintains highly scalable technology solutions brought to life through innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Job Overview and Responsibilities
The Salesforce Tech Lead is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, building, and supporting scalable Salesforce solutions across enterprise applications.
This role partners with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and distributed development teams to translate business needs into secure, maintainable technical solutions.
The ideal candidate can independently lead complex initiatives, guide other developers, balance multiple priorities, and ensure high-quality delivery from requirements through production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end Salesforce solution delivery, from technical design and development through testing, deployment, production validation, and support.
- Serve as a hands-on technical lead, building complex Salesforce functionality while guiding other developers.
- Design and implement scalable solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Flow, SOQL/SOSL, platform APIs, and related Salesforce capabilities.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, architects, and technology teams to clarify requirements and recommend practical Salesforce solutions.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, integration approaches, and implementation plans.
- Coordinate onshore and offshore developers through design guidance, code reviews, dependency management, and technical issue resolution.
- Lead technical delivery across multiple Salesforce projects, enhancements, defects, technical debt, and production-support priorities.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, estimation, release planning, and production-readiness activities.
- Promote Salesforce engineering best practices for reusable architecture, secure coding, performance, testing, logging, and maintainability.
- Develop enterprise-grade Apex, including services, triggers, asynchronous processing, batch jobs, scheduled jobs, and reusable frameworks.
- Build responsive, reusable Lightning Web Components using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Lightning Data Service, and Salesforce Lightning Design System.
- Use Salesforce Flow and Apex appropriately to deliver automation that is scalable, supportable, and aligned to platform best practices.
- Design and implement integrations using Salesforce APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, middleware, and appropriate integration patterns.
- Apply secure integration patterns using OAuth, Named Credentials, and appropriate authentication and authorization approaches.
- Design solutions with strong awareness of Salesforce limits, transaction boundaries, large data volumes, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
- Apply Salesforce security best practices for profiles, permission sets, sharing, CRUD/FLS, role hierarchy, record access, Apex, and LWC.
- Create and maintain automated tests, including Apex unit tests, test data, callout mocks, positive and negative scenarios, and LWC Jest tests where applicable.
- Support source-driven development and release practices using Git, Salesforce CLI, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and deployment automation.
- Troubleshoot complex Salesforce application and integration issues, including root-cause analysis, defect resolution, performance analysis, and production support.
- Identify opportunities to improve architecture, performance, maintainability, development processes, and user experience.
- Identify and address technical debt while balancing long-term architecture goals with delivery needs.
- Collaborate with Salesforce and enterprise architects to align solutions with architecture, security, integration, and technology standards.
- Mentor developers through coaching, code reviews, technical discussions, and development standards.
- Stay current with Salesforce platform capabilities, releases, AI features, and emerging technologies, recommending adoption where they add business or technical value.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 4+ years of software design and development experience delivering enterprise-scale applications.
- 3+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, including senior developer or technical lead responsibilities on complex implementations.
- Proven ability to independently own and deliver Salesforce applications or major capabilities with limited supervision.
- Advanced Salesforce development skills with Apex, triggers, LWC, SOQL/SOSL, Flow, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, data model, metadata, APIs, and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented development, enterprise design patterns, reusable components, and maintainable code architecture.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce governor limits, bulkification, transaction management, asynchronous Apex, exception handling, and performance.
- Experience with asynchronous Salesforce patterns such as Queueable Apex, Batch Apex, Scheduled Apex, Platform Events, or Change Data Capture.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security, including sharing, profiles, permission sets, CRUD/FLS, and secure development practices.
- Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs and modern authentication mechanisms.
- Experience with Git, Salesforce CLI, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and modern Salesforce development practices.
- Strong experience creating Apex unit tests, test data, positive and negative scenarios, callout mocks, and tests for complex logic.
- Experience with one or more Salesforce products such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Experience Cloud.
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including root-cause analysis and sustainable resolution of complex production issues.
- Ability to review code and provide actionable guidance on design, performance, security, scalability, testing, and maintainability.
- Ability to provide technical leadership to onshore and offshore developers and coordinate work across distributed teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and communicate technical concepts, risks, dependencies, and solution options clearly.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, decision-making, and communication skills.
- Self-starter with strong ownership, accountability, initiative, and ability to deliver high-quality solutions with minimal supervision.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills across technical teams, business teams, management, and end users.
- Ability to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule with minimal supervision.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualifications.
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.
Preferred
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer I/II, JavaScript Developer, Platform App Builder, Application Architect, Agentforce Specialist, or related credentials.
- Experience in large enterprise Salesforce environments with multiple applications, integrations, development teams, or Salesforce orgs.
- Experience with large data volumes, complex integrations, event-driven architecture, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, or enterprise middleware.
- Experience with DevOps, automated testing, static code analysis, deployment automation, and Salesforce release management.
- Experience supporting or modernizing legacy Salesforce solutions using Visualforce or Aura components.
- Experience with MuleSoft or other enterprise integration platforms.
- Knowledge of AI, Generative AI, LLMs, and responsible enterprise use of AI-assisted application development.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce and related AI capabilities, including agents, actions, prompts, topics, guardrails, and Salesforce data integration.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled Salesforce use cases that improve productivity, service, automation, or business processes.
- Familiarity with Salesforce Data Cloud for AI, Agentforce, customer data unification, and contextualized Salesforce experiences.
- Airline or travel-industry experience.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with Java, .NET, cloud platforms, or other enterprise technology stacks.
The base pay range for this role is $112,480.00 to $146,540.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com
Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.
Description
We have a wide variety of career opportunities around the world - come find yours.
The United IT team designs, develops, and maintains highly scalable technology solutions brought to life through innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Job Overview and Responsibilities
The Salesforce Tech Lead is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, building, and supporting scalable Salesforce solutions across enterprise applications.
This role partners with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and distributed development teams to translate business needs into secure, maintainable technical solutions.
The ideal candidate can independently lead complex initiatives, guide other developers, balance multiple priorities, and ensure high-quality delivery from requirements through production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end Salesforce solution delivery, from technical design and development through testing, deployment, production validation, and support.
- Serve as a hands-on technical lead, building complex Salesforce functionality while guiding other developers.
- Design and implement scalable solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Flow, SOQL/SOSL, platform APIs, and related Salesforce capabilities.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, architects, and technology teams to clarify requirements and recommend practical Salesforce solutions.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, integration approaches, and implementation plans.
- Coordinate onshore and offshore developers through design guidance, code reviews, dependency management, and technical issue resolution.
- Lead technical delivery across multiple Salesforce projects, enhancements, defects, technical debt, and production-support priorities.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, estimation, release planning, and production-readiness activities.
- Promote Salesforce engineering best practices for reusable architecture, secure coding, performance, testing, logging, and maintainability.
- Develop enterprise-grade Apex, including services, triggers, asynchronous processing, batch jobs, scheduled jobs, and reusable frameworks.
- Build responsive, reusable Lightning Web Components using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Lightning Data Service, and Salesforce Lightning Design System.
- Use Salesforce Flow and Apex appropriately to deliver automation that is scalable, supportable, and aligned to platform best practices.
- Design and implement integrations using Salesforce APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, middleware, and appropriate integration patterns.
- Apply secure integration patterns using OAuth, Named Credentials, and appropriate authentication and authorization approaches.
- Design solutions with strong awareness of Salesforce limits, transaction boundaries, large data volumes, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
- Apply Salesforce security best practices for profiles, permission sets, sharing, CRUD/FLS, role hierarchy, record access, Apex, and LWC.
- Create and maintain automated tests, including Apex unit tests, test data, callout mocks, positive and negative scenarios, and LWC Jest tests where applicable.
- Support source-driven development and release practices using Git, Salesforce CLI, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and deployment automation.
- Troubleshoot complex Salesforce application and integration issues, including root-cause analysis, defect resolution, performance analysis, and production support.
- Identify opportunities to improve architecture, performance, maintainability, development processes, and user experience.
- Identify and address technical debt while balancing long-term architecture goals with delivery needs.
- Collaborate with Salesforce and enterprise architects to align solutions with architecture, security, integration, and technology standards.
- Mentor developers through coaching, code reviews, technical discussions, and development standards.
- Stay current with Salesforce platform capabilities, releases, AI features, and emerging technologies, recommending adoption where they add business or technical value.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 4+ years of software design and development experience delivering enterprise-scale applications.
- 3+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, including senior developer or technical lead responsibilities on complex implementations.
- Proven ability to independently own and deliver Salesforce applications or major capabilities with limited supervision.
- Advanced Salesforce development skills with Apex, triggers, LWC, SOQL/SOSL, Flow, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, data model, metadata, APIs, and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented development, enterprise design patterns, reusable components, and maintainable code architecture.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce governor limits, bulkification, transaction management, asynchronous Apex, exception handling, and performance.
- Experience with asynchronous Salesforce patterns such as Queueable Apex, Batch Apex, Scheduled Apex, Platform Events, or Change Data Capture.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security, including sharing, profiles, permission sets, CRUD/FLS, and secure development practices.
- Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs and modern authentication mechanisms.
- Experience with Git, Salesforce CLI, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and modern Salesforce development practices.
- Strong experience creating Apex unit tests, test data, positive and negative scenarios, callout mocks, and tests for complex logic.
- Experience with one or more Salesforce products such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Experience Cloud.
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including root-cause analysis and sustainable resolution of complex production issues.
- Ability to review code and provide actionable guidance on design, performance, security, scalability, testing, and maintainability.
- Ability to provide technical leadership to onshore and offshore developers and coordinate work across distributed teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and communicate technical concepts, risks, dependencies, and solution options clearly.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, decision-making, and communication skills.
- Self-starter with strong ownership, accountability, initiative, and ability to deliver high-quality solutions with minimal supervision.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills across technical teams, business teams, management, and end users.
- Ability to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule with minimal supervision.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualifications.
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.
Preferred
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer I/II, JavaScript Developer, Platform App Builder, Application Architect, Agentforce Specialist, or related credentials.
- Experience in large enterprise Salesforce environments with multiple applications, integrations, development teams, or Salesforce orgs.
- Experience with large data volumes, complex integrations, event-driven architecture, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, or enterprise middleware.
- Experience with DevOps, automated testing, static code analysis, deployment automation, and Salesforce release management.
- Experience supporting or modernizing legacy Salesforce solutions using Visualforce or Aura components.
- Experience with MuleSoft or other enterprise integration platforms.
- Knowledge of AI, Generative AI, LLMs, and responsible enterprise use of AI-assisted application development.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce and related AI capabilities, including agents, actions, prompts, topics, guardrails, and Salesforce data integration.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled Salesforce use cases that improve productivity, service, automation, or business processes.
- Familiarity with Salesforce Data Cloud for AI, Agentforce, customer data unification, and contextualized Salesforce experiences.
- Airline or travel-industry experience.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with Java, .NET, cloud platforms, or other enterprise technology stacks.
The base pay range for this role is $112,480.00 to $146,540.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com
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Where Illinois roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Developer Job Market in Illinois
A snapshot from current Illinois openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software13
- Investment & Asset Management2
- Insurance1
- Healthcare & Medical Services1
What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in developer jobs across Illinois.
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies and version control systems like Git
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, design, and QA
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience with code review and testing practices
Developer Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a developer in Illinois?
Software development in Illinois does not require a state-issued license, so the path centers on building technical skills and credentials employers recognize. Most positions expect a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, though strong portfolios and bootcamp credentials from Chicago-area programs are increasingly accepted. Gaining practical experience through internships, open-source contributions, or freelance projects strengthens applications significantly for Illinois employers.
How much do developers make in Illinois?
Developers in Illinois earn a median of about $132,110 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $80,980 for the lowest 10% to over $194,740 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire developers in Illinois?
Employers hiring developers in Illinois right now include Capgemini, SMARTZ, and United Airlines, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Illinois's concentration of financial services firms, healthcare systems, and enterprise technology companies means developer demand is broad and relatively stable across industry sectors.
Which Illinois cities have the most developer jobs?
Chicago, Champaign, and Springfield lead Illinois for developer openings, reflecting the state's hiring distribution. Chicago dominates as the headquarters city for major financial, insurance, and tech employers, while suburban corridors like Schaumburg and Naperville draw consistent postings from large corporate campuses and technology centers anchored there by companies such as Motorola Solutions and Zurich North America.
Are there remote developer jobs in Illinois?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 71% of developer openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how well software development translates to distributed work. Roles focused on backend services, cloud infrastructure, and application development tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions requiring close collaboration with on-site hardware or lab environments lean more toward hybrid.
How can I get hired as a developer in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is targeting associate developer or junior software engineer roles at Illinois companies known for structured onboarding programs, including large employers in Chicago's financial technology sector and healthcare IT organizations affiliated with systems like Northwestern Medicine or Rush University Medical Center. Building a portfolio of personal or open-source projects, completing a recognized bootcamp, and earning a foundational cloud certification gives candidates a measurable edge when competing for new-grad and apprenticeship-track positions.
Where can I find and apply to developer jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to developer jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings across experience levels and specialties. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the ones that match.
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