Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

The Engineering Manager leads a team in delivering reliable software solutions, blending technical contributions with team leadership, managing projects, and improving processes.

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.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Manage an engineering team building and supporting a high-scale video advertising platform. Lead full SDLC activities, review designs and code, provide technical leadership, troubleshoot production issues, document technical requirements, and collaborate with global product and operations teams.

Lead and manage a team delivering scalable, highly available payment systems and full-stack microservices. Drive cloud-native solutions, collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, evaluate and occasionally write code, and adopt new technologies to meet regulatory and business needs.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Lead North America engineering teams for retirement products, provide technical and people leadership, drive architecture and delivery across multiple teams, adopt AI-native engineering practices, ensure operational excellence, and partner with product to shape roadmaps and execution.

Manage and mentor an engineering team building Buyer Cloud API and web services for DSP real-time bidding. Define requirements, timelines, and releases; enforce best practices and KPIs; drive technical improvements, manage budgets, and collaborate cross-functionally. May work nights/weekends as needed.

Manage and grow multiple engineering teams (3–5 direct reports, hire 3–5 more), coach engineers to own large, loosely defined projects, provide feedback on specs, occasionally code/debug in the codebase, and lead department-wide initiatives to improve engineering practices (reviews, interviews, demo data, developer experience).

Lead and manage an iOS mobile engineering team to design, build, and deliver high-quality iOS client code and platform components. Partner with cross-functional teams (UX, QA, Product, APIs) in Agile ceremonies, review code, mentor engineers, drive best practices, and resolve technical obstacles. Own major platform deliveries and represent mobile engineering across internal and external developer communities.

Lead a greenfield engineering team to integrate Ripple digital asset capabilities into Ripple Treasury. Manage and mentor up to four full-stack .NET developers, design .NET backends and Angular/React frontends, ship iteratively via Kanban, collaborate with product, compliance, and core digital assets teams, and define engineering practices for reliability, security, and auditability.

Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.

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.

Lead and manage an iOS engineering team to design and deliver high-quality iOS client solutions. Partner with cross-functional teams (UX, QA, Product), participate in Agile ceremonies, mentor engineers, own major platform components, review code and ensure Swift best practices, advocate for the mobile platform, and drive continuous improvement across teams.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to modernize a legacy pharmacy application by migrating to Go, SQL Server, and Azure. Drive hands-on development, design and deploy AI-powered solutions, apply AI-assisted tooling and automation, evaluate emerging technologies, resolve cross-team technical issues, and make broad product and process decisions.

Lead technical and strategic direction for tax innovation platforms. Oversee large-scale projects, drive modernization and AI-enabled capabilities, ensure operational excellence, mentor engineering leaders, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and deliver innovative, scalable enterprise/SaaS solutions to solve complex client challenges.