Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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Chicago, IL
160K-180K Annually
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160K-180K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Automation
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.
Top Skills: FastapiPostgresPythonReactTypescript
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
172K-330K Annually
Senior level
172K-330K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Software
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.
Top Skills: C++CudaCuteCutlassLlvmMaxMlirMojoOpenclPyTorchSyclTriton
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Retail • Software
Lead technical vision and system design for the Marketplace team while managing and coaching 3–5 engineers. Build scalable systems serving personalized offers, establish team processes, support onboarding, and improve collaboration across engineering, product, design, and data. The role combines engineering management with hands-on technical leadership in a remote-first startup environment.
Top Skills: Ad TechnologyAIMobile ApplicationsWeb Applications
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Chicago, IL
150K-180K Annually
Entry level
150K-180K Annually
Entry level
Financial Services
Leads and mentors software engineering teams while coordinating delivery across Product, Quality Engineering, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Operations. Contributes hands-on to coding, debugging, API design, architecture, and scalable platform services. Drives engineering excellence through operational metrics, incident management, technical debt reduction, continuous improvement, and modern development practices. Manages performance, staffing, resource allocation, stakeholder communication, and delivery across global teams.
Top Skills: .NetAutomated TestingAWSBai2Batch ProcessingC#Ci/CdDevOpsEdi 820Entity FrameworkEvent-Driven ArchitectureGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHaystackIso 20022JavaJavaScriptKanbanKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesAzureMs Sql ServerMt940MvcNew RelicObservabilityPostgresRole-Based Access ControlSaaSScrumSoa
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Chicago, IL
150K-180K Annually
Entry level
150K-180K Annually
Entry level
Financial Services
Leads and mentors software engineering teams while contributing hands-on code, architecture, API design, debugging, and scalable platform development. Coordinates Engineering, Product, Quality, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Release Management to deliver reliable SaaS software. Drives technical excellence, operational improvements, incident response, KPIs, resource allocation, roadmap influence, hiring, performance management, and continuous learning. Requires experience with cloud-native microservices, DevOps, observability, high-volume processing, access-control systems, and global team leadership.
Top Skills: .NetAutomated TestingAWSAzureBatch ProcessingC#Ci/CdDevOpsDockerEntity FrameworkEvent-Driven ArchitectureGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHaystackJavaJavaScriptKanbanKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesMicrosoft Sql ServerMvcNew RelicObservabilityPostgresRole-Based Access ControlSaaSScrumSoa
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Chicago, IL
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AdTech • Fintech • Gaming • Mobile • Software • App development
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.
Top Skills: Amazon RdsAmazon S3AmplitudeAnsibleAws LambdaCcpaCi/CdDatadogDnsDockerFirebaseGdprGoInfrastructure As CodeJetpack ComposeKotlinMixpanelNode.jsPostgresPythonRevenuecatShadowsocksSoc 2StripeSwiftSwiftuiTerraformTlsUikitWireguard
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Remote
Chicago, IL
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
HR Tech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
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.
Top Skills: AWSDjangoDjango Rest FrameworkDockerPostgresPythonReactTypescript
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Chicago, IL
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • HR Tech • Software • Financial Services
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.
Top Skills: AWSDjangoDjango Rest FrameworkDockerPostgresPythonReactTypescript
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Chicago, IL
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Fintech • Analytics • Financial Services
Lead and grow a backend and full-stack engineering team responsible for Tradeify’s live trading platform. Partner with Product and Engineering teams on platform integrations, architecture, delivery, code quality, CI/CD, reliability, observability, and incident response. Remain hands-on through code reviews, design guidance, and technical problem solving while managing performance, hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional communication.
Top Skills: AWSAzureC#ClickhouseDockerGCPGoKafkaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNatsNext.JsNinjatraderNode.jsPostgresPulsarPythonReactRedisRest ApisTimescaledbTradovateVueWebsocket
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Chicago, IL
Entry level
Entry level
Fintech • Analytics • Financial Services
Lead the engineering team building Arcnine, Tradeify’s real-time trading platform from development through launch. Hire and develop engineers, guide architecture, partner with Product and Design, remain hands-on with code, establish quality and delivery practices, and own reliability, observability, and incident response. The role also contributes to company-wide engineering standards and communicates progress, risks, and needs to founders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Top Skills: AWSAzureC#Ci/CdClickhouseDockerGCPGoKafkaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNatsNext.JsNode.jsPostgresPulsarPythonReactRedisRest ApisTimescaledbVueWebsockets
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
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.
Top Skills: Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesFull-Stack ToolingGenerative AiStreaming Pipelines
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Chicago, IL
180K-260K Annually
Entry level
180K-260K Annually
Entry level
Web3
Lead and grow an engineering team building Sui wallet and DeFi experiences across web, browser extension, iOS, Android, backend services, and SDKs. Set technical direction for key management, signing, transactions, dApp connectivity, and asset management. Improve architecture, testing, observability, release safety, incident response, and security while partnering with product, design, protocol, and ecosystem teams to deliver reliable, user-friendly onchain products.
Top Skills: AndroidAPIsBlockchainBridgesBrowser ExtensionsDecentralized ExchangesDefiFiat Off-RampsFiat On-RampsiOSLendingMoveProgrammable Transaction BlocksRpcSdksSlush WalletSmart ContractsStakingSuiWallet StandardWebZklogin
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Reposted One Month AgoSaved
Remote
Chicago, IL
185K-260K Annually
Senior level
185K-260K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.
Top Skills: ElmGpusLlm ApisMcp/Agent ToolingPostgresRust
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Database
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.
Top Skills: LinearOrbPostgresSlackStripe
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
188K-220K Annually
Mid level
188K-220K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Machine Learning • Mobile • Payments • Retail • Software
Lead a full-stack Reconciliation team owning transaction-matching pipelines across mobile and backend systems. Drive reliability, observability, and accuracy for post-claim flows, coach and grow engineers, contribute hands-on in high-leverage technical areas, partner cross-functionally, and scale systems and processes to improve transaction success and user trust.
Top Skills: AWSClean ArchitectureEvent-DrivenGenerative AiHexJavaKotlinKotlin Multiplatform (Kmp)MicroservicesMviPythonRestServerlessSnowflake
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Remote
Chicago, IL
163K-264K Annually
Senior level
163K-264K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
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.
Top Skills: AirflowAmazon S3AthenaAWSClickhouseDatadogElasticsearchGoIcebergKafkaKinesisPythonTerraform
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
209K-239K Annually
Senior level
209K-239K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Leads software engineering teams and a portfolio of technology projects, delivering cloud-based full-stack and microservices solutions. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, addressing regulatory needs, evaluating code, adopting emerging technologies, and using languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python, and Go alongside AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and database technologies.
Top Skills: AgileAWSDistributed SystemsDockerFull Stack SystemsGoGCPHTML/CSSJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesAzureNoSQLOpen Source RdbmsPythonSQLTypescript
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
196K-270K Annually
Senior level
196K-270K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
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.
Top Skills: AerospikeAWSC++GoJavaKafkaKanbanKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesRustScrum
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
137K-206K Annually
Senior level
137K-206K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Information Technology • News + Entertainment
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.
Top Skills: C++Go
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
160K-230K Annually
Senior level
160K-230K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Legal Tech • Productivity • Software
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.
Top Skills: Ai Coding ToolsCi/CdDockerJavaKubernetes
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Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Marketing Tech • Real Estate • Software • PropTech • SEO
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.
Top Skills: Ai AgentsApolloAWSGraphQLKafkaKubernetesLambdaLlmsMicroservicesNode.jsOpensearchPostgresReactRedisTailwindTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
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210K-270K Annually
Senior level
210K-270K Annually
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Healthtech • Information Technology • Software • Telehealth
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.
Top Skills: AndroidGenerative AiiOSJavaScriptReactTypescript
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
195K-258K Annually
Senior level
195K-258K Annually
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Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
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.
Top Skills: APIsBlockchainGoJavaJavaScript
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
209K-262K Annually
Senior level
209K-262K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Lead diverse technology projects, mentor developers, and collaborate on cloud-based solutions while utilizing various programming languages and cloud services.
Top Skills: AWSDockerGoJavaKubernetesNode.jsPythonScalaSQL
Reposted 29 Days AgoSaved
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
209K-239K Annually
Senior level
209K-239K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Lead and manage a team delivering distributed microservices and full‑stack cloud solutions for regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, drive cloud-native implementations, and occasionally code or evaluate code. Utilize languages and tools including JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, RDBMS/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP.
Top Skills: AWSCSSDockerGoGCPHTMLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesAzureNoSQLOpen Source RdbmsPythonSQLTypescript
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