Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead a Chicago-based engineering team to design and operate Adyen's credit card payments platform for NORAM. Drive strategy, architecture, scalability, and resilience; partner with product; coach and mentor engineers; and ensure high engineering standards across Visa, Mastercard, and Amex integrations.

Leads an engineering team building Adyen’s issuing and banking products. Responsibilities include defining the technical roadmap, hiring and developing a new team, providing technical authority, managing execution and technical debt, partnering with product and commercial stakeholders, and shaping customer-focused financial product capabilities at scale.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for Grainger’s cart and checkout experiences. Oversees engineering managers, delivery, reliability, security, quality, modernization, governance, and operational performance. Partners with product, architecture, UX, security, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps and customer outcomes. Develops engineering talent, manages workforce and vendor planning, promotes Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, AI-enabled practices, and drives continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.

Lead the Messaging Experience engineering team responsible for Braze’s Canvas and Campaign workflows. Set engineering direction, own a multi-year roadmap, improve front-end quality and delivery speed, develop engineers and technical leads, hire team members, and partner with Product and Design to deliver polished, customer-focused web applications.

Manage a software engineering team building the Ovation Risk Platform. Lead architecture, design, development, performance management, and cross-functional delivery. Design fault-tolerant Kafka and Flink event-streaming systems, integrate AI and machine learning, optimize PostgreSQL databases, and provide technical product ownership. Apply expertise in options exchange operations, trade lifecycles, and clearing workflows while developing target-state architectures and complex enterprise solutions.

Leads and develops software engineering teams responsible for pricing APIs, services, and data products. Partners with product, architecture, security, platform, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable software. Oversees planning through production support, establishes Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, testing, and AI-assisted engineering practices, manages operational health and incident response, and drives continuous improvement for high-volume, business-critical pricing systems.

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Manage and coach software engineers across data product teams while remaining hands-on in code and design reviews. Partner with tech leads and product managers, uphold engineering quality, improve delivery predictability and on-call health, oversee hiring and career development, and guide production operations. Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and influence stakeholders without direct authority.

Leads data engineers and architects while owning Tempus’s enterprise data model and data reliability. Integrates clinical, genomic, NGS, and radiology data across relational and NoSQL systems; establishes modeling, observability, quality, and documentation standards; and mentors teams through technical reviews. Partners with product and engineering leaders to prioritize work and uses AI-assisted development tools to improve modeling, testing, and pipeline delivery. Requires strong SQL, Python, modern data stack, healthcare data standards, data observability, and healthcare/genomics domain expertise.

Lead and mentor web developers building Akuna’s mission-critical trading interface. Collaborate with traders and stakeholders on priorities and roadmap, guide architecture and UI/UX decisions, establish development best practices, ensure scalability and code quality, and translate complex trading needs into actionable plans. The role requires hands-on technical leadership in TypeScript, React, and Python, with an emphasis on high-performance, real-time systems.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Leads tax technology software engineering workstreams from planning through deployment. Manages client-facing engagements, translates tax requirements into scalable technical solutions, reviews architecture and code, oversees CI/CD, and coaches engineers. The role also manages scope, budgets, timelines, performance, troubleshooting, and delivery quality while identifying automation and process improvement opportunities through AI fluency and analytical thinking.

Leads software engineering for tax technology solutions, overseeing architecture, coding, testing, deployment, project delivery, and AI-enabled innovation. Advises stakeholders, translates tax needs into scalable applications and microservices, evaluates technical tradeoffs, manages risks, and coaches engineering teams. Requires client collaboration, clear communication, systems thinking, and the ability to guide teams through complex and ambiguous situations.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams across multiple product pods. Provide technical direction, oversee production services and operational readiness, manage on-call and incident response, support hiring and career development, and drive cross-functional planning and delivery. The role requires strong people-management experience, technical judgment, production-service expertise, and the ability to work asynchronously in a distributed startup environment.

Lead a full-stack Reconciliation team owning transaction-matching pipelines across mobile and backend systems. Drive reliability, observability, and accuracy for post-claim flows, coach and grow engineers, contribute hands-on in high-leverage technical areas, partner cross-functionally, and scale systems and processes to improve transaction success and user trust.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads and develops a team of GTM engineers building AI agents, workflows, integrations, and internal infrastructure for marketing, sales, and customer success. Establishes engineering standards, documentation, review, ownership, and rollback practices; partners on roadmap planning; manages technical vendor relationships; and coordinates transitions from prototypes to long-term engineering ownership. The role remains hands-on while hiring, mentoring, and improving team operations in a fully remote environment.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions for CMS Hospital Quality Reporting systems. Manages hiring, performance, coaching, team development, resource planning, engineering standards, architectural decisions, code reviews, and delivery processes. Collaborates with Product Managers to align engineering work with product goals while fostering technical excellence, continuous improvement, and an inclusive remote-first culture.

Leads engineering for Buffer’s Growth area across acquisition, activation, and retention. Coaches engineers, shapes priorities with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, guides technical decisions, connects customer insights to measurement, supports AI-enabled development, and contributes to hiring and engineering practices. The role requires strong technical judgment, product-growth understanding, clear communication, and experience helping engineers develop in a distributed environment.

Lead Honeydew’s Operations Experience engineering team, owning people management, planning, delivery, technical quality, and cross-functional execution. Manage engineers, a tech lead, and contractors through regular feedback, growth planning, agile ceremonies, and performance management. Improve delivery metrics, surface risks and tradeoffs, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership, and develop the team’s long-term structure, capacity, and hiring plan.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Lead the Admin Experience backend engineering team, setting technical direction for user access, account hierarchies, administration workflows, APIs, data models, and authorization. Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while partnering with Product and adjacent teams on roadmap planning. Balance feature delivery with production support, reliability, testing, observability, documentation, and secure operational practices for customer-facing SaaS services.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building API, microservices, event-driven, and platform capabilities for KeepStock’s cloud transformation. Partners with product, UX, machine learning, architecture, security, and SRE teams to translate roadmaps into delivery plans. Oversees software development, testing, deployment, production support, quality, security, scalability, reliability, and performance. Establishes Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement practices while coaching talent and managing team performance.