Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads enterprise software development, platform integrations, custom scripts, and cloud architecture. Manages the software development lifecycle from requirements through deployment, collaborates with stakeholders, mentors engineers, and directly contributes to frontend, backend, and cloud solutions. Oversees third-party enterprise tools, databases, APIs, serverless systems, QA coordination, technical processes, and cross-departmental engineering initiatives.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team, provide technical guidance, drive architecture and engineering excellence, manage sprint execution, collaborate on product roadmaps, ensure scalable and reliable systems, foster continuous improvement, and support recruiting and onboarding. The role requires balancing technical strategy with business impact while developing high-performing engineers.

Lead and develop mobile engineering teams building Ford’s customer-facing app. Provide technical direction across product development and production, review architectures and designs, establish engineering standards for documentation, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, evaluate mobile technologies, and partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

Leads and mentors software and QA engineers while contributing hands-on code, architecture, debugging, and code reviews. Owns QA strategy, automation, quality metrics, SDLC processes, delivery visibility, platform stability, compliance, and cross-functional release readiness. Requires balancing people leadership with technical contributions across a telehealth platform, including secure and scalable web applications and APIs.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for expanding game discovery and rewards across Fetch’s mobile and backend experiences. Own roadmap delivery, translate product goals into technical plans, guide architecture and code quality, manage dependencies, and ensure scalable, reliable, observable systems. Partner cross-functionally, communicate risks and tradeoffs, improve team processes, and support engineers in using AI-assisted development tools.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for customer-facing products, payments, onboarding, internal tools, and production systems. Set technical direction, guide architecture, manage reliability and incident response, oversee delivery planning, and partner with Product, Design, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, capacity planning, operational excellence, and accountability for system quality, availability, performance, and delivery outcomes.

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.

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.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Lead engineering ownership of an acquired consumer VPN product from due diligence through integration, stabilization, and growth. Manage and coach engineers while remaining hands-on with Kotlin, Swift, Go, architecture, operations, security, and production incidents. Establish testing, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and compliance practices; partner with product, corporate development, marketing, and operations; and create a repeatable engineering playbook for future acquisitions.

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.

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.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform engineering team, overseeing high-throughput ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, reliability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Partner with product and engineering teams on roadmap planning, technical tradeoffs, and delivery. Coach engineers, manage performance and career growth, establish collaborative team practices, and participate in hiring.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams supporting Salesforce Finance and HR systems. Oversees application engineering, integrations, test automation, Agile delivery, vendor partnerships, stakeholder communication, and global team operations. Requires expertise with Workday Financials or HCM, MuleSoft integrations, HR or finance transformation, and end-to-end business processes.

Leads engineering teams developing agentic AI and enterprise SMS/RCS messaging platforms on GCP. Owns architecture, delivery, engineering roadmaps, team growth, messaging orchestration, carrier integrations, conversational AI, TCPA compliance controls, and GCP infrastructure. Partners with Product, Legal, and Compliance to implement scalable regulatory controls for healthcare communications.

Lead and grow a US/Canada-facing forward-deployed engineering team, run sprint-based delivery, own end-to-end solution architecture and stakeholder relationships, mentor engineers, recruit and train staff, and deliver reusable tools and measurable business value.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team, oversee design and delivery of software and web applications, set project requirements and timelines, enforce development best practices and KPIs, manage releases, budgets, and capital projects, and drive continuous technical improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead a team of 4–5 engineers building and operating a cloud-scale SaaS document management platform. Responsibilities include people development, architecture, technical decision-making, AI-native software development, partner collaboration, roadmap execution, and engineering best practices such as CI/CD, testing, code reviews, documentation, and observability.