Engineer II, Digital Engagement — AI-driven, high-impact

Tavern Research; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 147,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Office closed for federal holidays

Equity

Job summary

Tavern Research is a political tech startup with a Chicago-based office. You will be an Engineer II building tools that give our partners an edge in politics, media, and influence.

Expect to own projects from concept to deployment and mentor teammates as you grow into leadership. You’ll work on API integrations, data pipelines, and experiments with AI-coding tools, while collaborating closely with product and engineering leadership to shape scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional engineering experience with ownership of projects end to end and production support.
• Experience debugging production issues and strengthening monitoring over time.
• Experience with databases, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend product features balancing reliability with experimentation.
• Own and evolve core features and systems, contributing to architectural decisions.
• Support growth of teammates via code reviews and mentoring.
• Work across a moderate-to-wide scope, handling unknowns and API integrations.
• Prototype and experiment with new ideas, AI tooling, data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to influence what and how we build.
• Identify improvements to tools, workflows, and systems.
• Balance speed, scale, and reliability to align with product goals.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Production debugging

APIs & data pipelines

Mentoring teammates

Tools

Databases

APIs

Infrastructure

Job description

Tavern Research is a political tech startup with a Chicago-based office. You will be an Engineer II building tools that give our partners an edge in politics, media, and influence.

Expect to own projects from concept to deployment and mentor teammates as you grow into leadership. You’ll work on API integrations, data pipelines, and experiments with AI-coding tools, while collaborating closely with product and engineering leadership to shape scalable solutions.