Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads software engineering teams developing the Health100 consumer health platform. Responsibilities include architectural leadership for distributed systems, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities; recruiting and mentoring engineers; managing initiatives through delivery and production operations; establishing performance, risk, and governance practices; and partnering across product, design, security, analytics, and business teams. The role emphasizes Java, cloud-native development, microservices, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and scalable platform solutions.

Leads an internal research engineering team supporting data science, education, and partnership initiatives. Manages engineers and students, establishes software development and quality standards, oversees computing resources, mentors staff, evaluates project proposals, and serves as a technical liaison to researchers and external partners. Provides technical leadership in cloud deployment, database design, microservices, DevOps, and software development while contributing to project planning, code review, project execution, and program priorities.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale commercial banking client onboarding and compliance platforms. Oversees architecture, development, integration, modernization, delivery, and support for onboarding, KYC/AML, workflow, document management, identity, access, and FIS core banking integrations. Partners with business, product, compliance, security, architecture, and vendors while coaching technical teams and ensuring secure, reliable cloud-based solutions.

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 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 the Desktop Software Engineering team, ensuring application reliability, managing desktop systems, and building effective endpoint engineering processes.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering AI-powered data connectivity solutions. Owns execution, delivery, technical direction, operational reliability, and cross-team coordination. Develops engineering talent through coaching, hiring, and performance management while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on priorities and organizational planning. Guides architecture, cloud-native development, incident response, SLOs, and AI-assisted software development practices. Requires strong Java/Kotlin expertise, cloud architecture experience, and technical judgment across distributed systems.

Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

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.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable infrastructure.

Lead the Content Foundations engineering team and evolve Scribd’s high-scale document ingestion platform into a real-time, AI-native system. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, integrating AI and ML capabilities, overseeing distributed data infrastructure, ensuring security and operational reliability, managing the roadmap, hiring and developing backend and AI data engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders across the organization.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

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.

Leads and develops a software engineering team through coaching, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and engineering leadership on priorities, execution, architecture, and technical strategy. Reviews system designs, evaluates tradeoffs, supports code reviews, and drives improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, testing, and engineering processes. Works remotely with cross-functional leaders to deliver and maintain veterinary software products.

Lead delivery and technical execution for an AI-driven pipeline integrity platform spanning data architecture, engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and quality oversight. Manage compliance, security, audit readiness, release planning, hiring, team development, and cross-functional collaboration. Ensure platform outputs are traceable, reproducible, secure, and delivered predictably against phased milestones.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a squad focused on pricing, manage team execution, ensure quality delivery, and mentor engineers, fostering growth and collaboration.

Leads a 20-plus-person distributed Review Engineering organization across three agile squads. Owns technical direction, production reliability, incident response, system scalability, delivery metrics, hiring, performance management, and engineering career growth. Partners with Product, Design, Security, Clinical Operations, and peer engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-quality systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

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 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.

Leads the Product Acquisition engineering team and drives technology strategy, architecture, software delivery, DevOps maturity, platform adoption, vendor management, and operational excellence. Partners with product managers on roadmaps and business outcomes, ensures engineering standards and production support, and coaches, recruits, and develops engineers and consultants. Requires strong software development, product operating model, project management, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership experience.

Leads the technical vision and engineering team for a high-throughput data and event platform. Oversees scalable distributed data systems, pipelines, databases, cloud infrastructure, data governance, and system integration. Partners with AI, ML, analytics, and platform teams to expand self-service capabilities, manages technical debt and architecture decisions, prioritizes projects, and recruits and mentors engineers.

Leads the Data Platform and Infrastructure team, owning strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational development. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, guiding data ingestion and platform design, establishing APIs, SLAs, governance, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. The role partners with Product, Data, Finance, Security, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, experimentation, machine learning, and data products while scaling reliable infrastructure and developing future technical leaders.

Leads and scales the MSP/MSSP engineering team responsible for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities, including account hierarchies, tenant isolation, delegated administration, dashboards, licensing, and white-labeling. Oversees architecture, engineering quality, roadmap execution, partner support, hiring, mentoring, and team development. Collaborates with Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and engineering leadership while balancing strategic delivery with operational 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.