Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

Lead diverse technology projects, mentor developers, and collaborate on cloud-based solutions while utilizing various programming languages and cloud 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.