Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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 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.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers in industrial automation projects, provide technical guidance, and drive program growth while managing P&L responsibilities.

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.

Lead and develop an engineering squad building scalable partner-facing products and APIs. Shape multi-quarter strategy, coordinate across engineering and business teams, guide architecture and technical tradeoffs, improve reliability and delivery practices, and develop engineers and emerging leaders. Partner with Product, Design, and Business Development to translate customer and partner needs into durable platform capabilities while influencing broader engineering direction and culture.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

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.

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 the Data Products engineering team by managing delivery planning, people development, engineering quality, stakeholder relationships, data governance, and responsible AI adoption. Partner with product owners, engineering leads, client delivery teams, and executives to prioritize data platform work and maintain consistent sprint delivery. The role oversees multidisciplinary engineers across data engineering, full stack, and QA while supporting modern data pipelines, access controls, and reporting infrastructure.

Lead a six-to-eight-person engineering team through people management, hiring, performance management, planning, delivery oversight, and career development. Remain hands-on by contributing code and pull requests while partnering with product managers and technical leaders on priorities, architecture, and alignment. Support onboarding, documentation, ownership clarity, and team growth. The role requires substantial backend experience, strong TypeScript skills, recent technical contributions, AI-enabled engineering workflow familiarity, and prior management of at least five engineers.

Lead and grow an engineering team building a new data storage service. Provide hands-on technical guidance, shape architecture and roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, recruit and coach engineers, manage performance, and balance delivery speed with system stability and quality.

Leads the Treasury engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, production monitoring, and incident response. Owns technical strategy for financial infrastructure, including ACH transfers, card issuing, QuickBooks integration, payment tools, wallets, rewards, and financial dashboards. Manages and mentors engineers, improves engineering workflows, ensures security and reliability, and partners with the VP of Engineering on product delivery and scalable team practices.

Lead and mentor Catalog and Partner Integrations engineering teams while combining hands-on software development with people management. Translate business needs into technical solutions, manage project delivery and dependencies, guide architecture, develop distributed applications, implement monitoring, and support engineering quality practices. The role also oversees hiring, performance management, team development, operational support, and data-intensive integrations across Gopuff’s first-party and partner channels.

Lead technical execution for teams building endpoint agents, backend and inference services, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products. Translate engineering priorities into plans, milestones, and ownership; guide architecture and implementation; manage, mentor, and develop engineers; oversee planning, delivery, quality, hiring, and onboarding; and remove technical or resourcing blockers. The role requires hands-on technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and familiarity with agentic coding tools in a fast-moving startup environment.

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 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.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for designing, developing, operating, and reliably delivering core cloud-scale SailPoint products. Owns technical direction, architecture reviews, code quality, sprint execution, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and delivery metrics. Partners with Product Management and architecture leaders on roadmaps, coaches engineers, drives operational excellence, and promotes AI-assisted development. The team uses AWS, event-driven microservices, and distributed systems to build enterprise-grade identity security products.

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 architecture, scalability, performance, and security for Salesforce and Node.js applications while managing a team of 10–15 engineers. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve development velocity, oversee integrations and deployment processes, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. The role combines hands-on Salesforce technical architecture with people management, hiring, career development, and delivery accountability.