Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable enterprise software and products. Own engagement relationships, product roadmaps, architecture (APIs, microservices), CI/CD and quality practices, project planning, and mentoring of junior staff to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Lead the Landing Pages engineering team, overseeing product vision, architecture, software delivery, and team development. Partner with product and design to prioritize features, validate adoption using usage data, and scale web experiences, APIs, integrations, hosting, and reporting. Recruit, coach, and retain engineers while guiding major technical decisions and contributing code when appropriate.

Leads a 2–4 person engineering team while remaining hands-on in a TypeScript codebase. Owns delivery planning, performance management, career development, technical contributions, incident response, team health, quality, and compliance. Partners with Product, Design, and engineering teams to translate strategy into reliable software, manage risks and dependencies, remove blockers, and improve productivity through AI-enabled engineering practices.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads software engineering teams building AI-enabled developer tooling, governed agent platforms, self-healing production agents, and internal builder workflows. Owns platform strategy, roadmap, architecture, observability, identity and access models, cost governance, operational metrics, and executive reporting. Requires production experience with LLM or agent systems, internal developer platforms, MCP architectures, cloud platforms, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, and non-human identity models.

Lead and build a new engineering team within Adyen’s Issuing organization. Own the technical roadmap for card-issuing products, provide technical authority, coach engineers, manage performance, and ensure high-quality execution. Partner with product, commercial, operations, clients, banks, vendors, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable API-based financial services. Shape product strategy, address technical debt, uphold engineering standards, and support expansion of issuing capabilities.

Lead and grow a team of Azure Solution Engineers to drive cloud migration, application modernization, and AI adoption for Education, Nonprofit, and IGO customers. Partner with sales, engineering, product, and partners to deliver secure, governed, and scalable Cloud & AI solutions, scale repeatable plays, and coach technical talent to achieve measurable customer and business outcomes.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and operations of Caterpillar’s search platform. Manages and mentors multiple software engineering teams while delivering scalable, high-performance search capabilities for web and mobile applications. Oversees integrations, quality assurance, IT service operations, analytics, and continuous relevance improvements using NLP, vector search, personalization, machine learning, and A/B testing. Partners with product, data science, and engineering leaders to align search initiatives with business objectives.

Lead the Consumer Core full-stack team building core functionality across Kotlin Multiplatform front-end and Python/Java back-end. Drive architecture, security, reliability, cost-efficiency, tooling, AI adoption, and cross-functional alignment. Coach engineers, set domain boundaries, represent the team in planning, and scale systems and processes to support Consumer and Partnerships applications.

Leads software engineering teams developing innovative applications and scalable architectures for tax-focused digital transformation. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, deploying, and integrating software using .NET, Java, Python, Azure, APIs, and microservices. The role drives continuous delivery, applies systems thinking and ATDD, aligns solutions with client and business needs, and coaches diverse, high-performing teams through complex initiatives.

Lead and manage forward-deployed software engineering teams in PwC's Tax practice. Own project planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery of API-driven, microservices-based applications. Mentor staff, implement CI/CD, ensure enterprise application integration, optimize system interactions, and collaborate with clients and support teams to resolve software issues and drive digital transformation.

Lead and manage teams to design, build, test, and deploy enterprise software solutions. Drive CI/CD, API-driven integrations, code quality, client engagement, and process improvements while coaching high-performing teams.

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.

Lead a software engineering team building Adyen's Debit Card Payments platform for NORAM. Set strategy, drive architecture, coach engineers, partner with product, ensure scalability, resilience, throughput, and reliability for large enterprise merchants.

Leads a full-stack engineering growth pod, owning its roadmap, delivery quality, team culture, hiring and career development. The manager remains hands-on by writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, coaching engineers, and participating in technical decisions. The team rapidly experiments with product experiences, using data-driven insights to help people discover and understand Atticus services. The role partners closely with product, design, and data science while operating in an ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment.

Leads and contributes to software projects for the Communications and Documents team. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, writing high-quality code, collaborating across engineering, product, and design, contributing to architecture and strategy, executing large initiatives, and supporting recruiting and hiring. The role requires full-stack web development expertise, technical leadership, and experience with scalable APIs, relational databases, server-side performance, and modern front-end frameworks.

Leads two infrastructure and engineering systems squads, owning roadmap, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, mentoring, and vendor budgets. Ships production code, manages on-call performance, oversees audits and automation, and partners across engineering and business functions. Requires substantial software engineering and people-management experience, hands-on production development across cloud or application technologies, strong CI/CD and observability knowledge, security awareness, and experience directing AI agents in production workflows.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team within Stripe Billing. Partner with engineering, product, design, and recruiting leaders to shape strategy, roadmap, and product outcomes. Mentor engineers, foster an inclusive and psychologically safe culture, establish effective processes, solve complex technical problems, support scalable software solutions, and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and development of Cadence’s AI-powered Clinical Intelligence platform. Build reliable clinical decision-support and medication recommendation systems using patient data, clinical protocols, safety rules, and clinician oversight. Hire, mentor, and grow AI, backend, and full-stack engineers while establishing engineering standards, testing, observability, validation, and regulatory-readiness practices. Partner with clinical, product, design, and AI stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable production systems.