Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead two or more software engineering teams building and operating TopstepX, a real-time trading platform. Responsibilities include coaching and developing engineers, hiring and capacity planning, prioritizing delivery amid changing needs, and ensuring system availability, performance, quality, and resilience. The role requires leadership of production systems, incident response, observability, reliability investments, and collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building decentralized finance products. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing roadmaps and workflows, overseeing React and Solidity development, maintaining architecture and code quality, improving development and deployment processes, managing quality assurance and security, monitoring systems, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

Leads and grows the engineering team, oversees customer implementations and product delivery, manages stakeholders, balances customization with core product development, and establishes engineering quality and reliability practices. The role also remains hands-on with TypeScript and Node.js coding, code reviews, debugging, and production support. Experience with AI products, healthcare workflows, HIPAA, EHR integrations, and early-stage startups is valuable.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for payment and fraud services, including application design, development, support, resiliency, architecture, APIs, scalability, and lifecycle management. Reviews Java and Spring Boot code, oversees incident response, drives technical standards and strategic initiatives, manages vendors and distributed teams, develops engineering talent, and promotes responsible AI adoption for coding and testing.

Lead the Data Streaming engineering sub-team responsible for reliable, scalable ingestion, normalization, and routing of cybersecurity telemetry. Manage and grow a 6–7 engineer team, establish SLOs and on-call processes, maintain schemas and data contracts, improve pipeline reliability and scalability, and collaborate with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory teams. The role requires hands-on expertise with streaming architectures, cloud-native operations, data quality, and pipeline observability.

Lead a 6–7 person engineering team responsible for building, shipping, and maintaining production-grade integrations with security platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Own the integration product roadmap, API contracts, reliability, compatibility, certification pipeline, and upstream change management. Partner with customer success, security research, and partnerships teams while hiring and developing engineers. The role requires hands-on technical expertise in Go or Python, enterprise authentication, event-driven architectures, AWS serverless services, and security data normalization.

Leads multiple software engineering teams building enterprise-scale reference data platforms. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, governing AI-assisted development, designing Java and Spring Boot microservices, developing event-driven data products, optimizing AWS-based pipelines, ensuring security and reliability, reviewing code, managing technical debt, supporting production incidents, and driving end-to-end delivery across distributed systems and data mesh architectures.

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.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Leads the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

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.

Lead Headway’s Web Platform team of five frontend engineers. Own frontend strategy, design systems, web architecture, accessibility, performance, testing, and agentic UI workflows. Hire and develop engineers, manage performance, align with Design and product teams, define roadmaps and metrics, and advocate for frontend standards company-wide. Remain hands-on with code and AI tools while evolving shared frameworks, tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks.

Lead a hands-on engineering team building and shipping features for a modern trucking transportation management system. Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, contribute to Ruby on Rails and React development, mentor engineers, maintain engineering quality, understand customer workflows, and deliver improvements quickly in a fully remote environment.

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.

Lead a senior engineering team building Fingerprint’s Automation Intelligence product from beta through commercial launch. Own product readiness, service reliability, detection accuracy, testing, rollout quality, API contracts, observability, team growth, and AI-native engineering practices. Partner with product, research, and customer-facing teams while establishing autonomous ownership, quality metrics, and contract-first APIs for detecting and classifying bots, AI agents, and other automation.

Leads software and DevOps engineers while developing shared engineering capabilities, reusable libraries, and technical standards. Provides hands-on leadership across .NET and React ecosystems, software design, coding, testing, automation, security, and delivery practices. Establishes governance for shared components and responsible AI-assisted development, partners with architecture, security, product, and delivery leaders, and drives adoption, metrics, continuous improvement, and career development across geographically dispersed teams.

Lead the Methods and Insights engineering teams, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery, operational health, architecture, and developer experience. Partner with product leaders and founders to sequence work, manage risk, improve engineering processes, and ship reliable systems. Build AI-agent development practices, shared components, CI gates, conventions, and harnesses that help engineers move quickly while maintaining quality.

Lead and develop a software engineering team building Python-based healthcare revenue cycle automation. Responsibilities include people management, hiring, technical leadership, code reviews, agile delivery, architecture guidance, stakeholder collaboration, compliance oversight, process improvement, and delivery accountability. The role requires hands-on understanding of Python automation, Azure, healthcare data security, HIPAA, HITRUST, and engineering best practices.

Lead and mentor a product engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, code reviews, architecture, and technical direction. Partner with product and cross-functional teams to deliver the roadmap, improve engineering quality, and build a culture of ownership. Requires strong software engineering experience, people leadership, React, TypeScript, Python, startup experience, customer-facing product experience, and regular coding. The role is remote in the US or Canada with occasional customer visits.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams while remaining 20–30% hands-on with coding, debugging, APIs, architecture, and scalable platform services. Coordinates engineering, product, quality, SRE, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable SaaS software. Owns technical direction, roadmap influence, incident management, operational excellence, KPIs, resource allocation, hiring, performance management, and continuous improvement across globally distributed teams.

Lead a cross-functional advertising engineering squad of backend and iOS engineers. Partner with Product and Design to discover, prioritize, and deliver consumer-facing ad experiences through experimentation. Manage backlog health, technical debt, delivery quality, and team ceremonies while coaching engineers and fostering an empowered, high-trust team. Support scalable, maintainable mobile applications and navigate privacy, consent, and advertising requirements.