Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

Lead and grow a full‑stack engineering team building customer data and identity solutions. Own architecture, APIs, component libraries, code quality, hiring, mentoring, roadmap execution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Contribute code for high‑impact items and ensure scalable systems and agile best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Manage and mentor an engineering team building Buyer Cloud API and web services for DSP real-time bidding. Define requirements, timelines, and releases; enforce best practices and KPIs; drive technical improvements, manage budgets, and collaborate cross-functionally. May work nights/weekends as needed.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Lead and manage an iOS mobile engineering team to design, build, and deliver high-quality iOS client code and platform components. Partner with cross-functional teams (UX, QA, Product, APIs) in Agile ceremonies, review code, mentor engineers, drive best practices, and resolve technical obstacles. Own major platform deliveries and represent mobile engineering across internal and external developer communities.

Manage and grow multiple engineering teams (3–5 direct reports, hire 3–5 more), coach engineers to own large, loosely defined projects, provide feedback on specs, occasionally code/debug in the codebase, and lead department-wide initiatives to improve engineering practices (reviews, interviews, demo data, developer experience).

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

Lead and manage a team building highly available, scalable full-stack microservices for global payments. Drive cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and occasionally write or review code. Ensure regulatory-compliant, secure, and performant payment infrastructure.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead 2–3 software teams (12–20 engineers), owning people management, hiring, retention, and stakeholder communication. Drive adoption of AI tools, guide technical debt and platform investment decisions, and partner with tech leads and Product Owners to keep delivery aligned and healthy in a regulated payments environment.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads systems. Drive delivery of partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability, and product integrations while partnering with Product, Data, Privacy, and other stakeholders. Hire, onboard, and create a healthy team culture focused on maintainable, secure, and privacy-aligned software.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, and product integrations. Partner with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering to navigate ambiguous privacy and policy constraints, ensure reliability and quality, hire and onboard engineers, and maintain sustainable delivery practices in a distributed environment.

The Staff Software Engineer coordinates project activities, defines technical tasks, and drives improvements in processes, while mentoring other engineers and representing the company externally.

Lead and grow a small engineering team building scalable, secure, HIPAA-compliant patient and clinician-facing web and mobile systems. Drive architectural decisions, CI/CD, feature-flagged small-batch delivery, AI-native developer workflows, and operational excellence. Partner with product, design, clinical, and ops to translate requirements into reliable, accessible software and hire, mentor, and raise delivery capability across the team.

Lead and mentor a remote engineering team building high-scale, distributed data streaming systems for a SaaS telemetry platform. Drive technical excellence, participate in design and code reviews, manage project delivery, collaborate with product and operations, hire and grow talent, and support on-call/standby duties while ensuring customer-focused solutions.

Lead and mentor a team building a zero-to-one charge card product. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, and technical trade-offs. Partner with Product, Design, Risk, and peers to set roadmap, remove blockers, and use data to drive product and platform decisions.

The Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team to develop and optimize scalable software solutions, mentor team members, and ensure adherence to engineering practices and agile methodologies while collaborating with stakeholders.

Lead and grow a software engineering team, drive execution from planning through rollout, mentor engineers, contribute to architecture and code reviews, improve systems for scalability, reliability, and performance, and collaborate with product and leadership in a fully remote environment.

Lead teams focused on developer productivity and observability, build metrics and analytics infrastructure, and drive AI-enabled tooling to measurably improve the software development lifecycle. Partner with engineering and data stakeholders to define roadmaps, mentor engineers, and deliver measurable improvements in adoption, reliability, and developer experience.

Lead architecture and delivery of real-time stream-processing pipelines using Apache Flink and Java. Design scalable, event-driven, low-latency systems; optimize performance and reliability; deploy and manage cloud/containerized services; enforce CI/CD, testing, and observability; troubleshoot production issues; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and mentor engineering teams.