Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Engineering Manager responsible for leading multiple Agile engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development. Owns end-to-end delivery of scalable, reliable, secure AWS and data-intensive systems; drives CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and delivery improvements. Manages cross-team execution, stakeholder communication, incident response, compliance, and client-facing technical discussions. Contributes to engineering strategy, organizational design, communities of practice, and federal proposal development.

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 and develops a team of software engineers while balancing people management with technical leadership. Responsibilities include coaching, performance management, roadmap planning, architecture and code-quality guidance, hiring, staffing, risk management, incident response, stakeholder communication, and cross-team engineering initiatives. The manager partners with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable software and foster a collaborative, accountable culture.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers in industrial automation projects, provide technical guidance, and drive program growth while managing P&L responsibilities.

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.

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.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Leads the day-to-day management and delivery of internal and partner engineering teams. Responsibilities include assigning work, unblocking engineers, maintaining scoped tickets in Linear, coordinating shared workstreams, shaping technical direction with product and engineering teams, managing performance and growth, and supporting hiring and team structure. The role also champions spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering practices while managing distributed engineers across time zones.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team, provide technical guidance, drive architecture and engineering excellence, manage sprint execution, collaborate on product roadmaps, ensure scalable and reliable systems, foster continuous improvement, and support recruiting and onboarding. The role requires balancing technical strategy with business impact while developing high-performing engineers.

Leads the engineering team building Webflow’s code-native platform, including high-fidelity visual-to-code workflows and coding-agent integration. Sets technical and product direction, shapes architecture, owns developer experience, sequences platform and customer-facing work, and partners across product, design, and engineering. This player-coach role includes architecture reviews, prototyping, hands-on contributions, hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing technical culture.

Leads Root’s Telematics Technology engineering domain, overseeing telematics data platforms, feature stores, trip pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing experiences. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, partnering with Data Science, Pricing, and Underwriting, managing and developing engineering teams, recruiting, guiding distributed-system architecture, and improving reliability, observability, scalability, delivery processes, and production stability. The role also drives AI-tool adoption and may oversee production machine-learning systems.

Lead and develop the AgentControl Evaluations engineering team while providing technical leadership for offline evaluations, playgrounds, LLM-as-judges, and annotated datasets. Partner with Product and Design on roadmap planning, own feature delivery, improve reliability and incident response, coordinate shared infrastructure, communicate progress and risks, foster collaborative team norms, and participate in hiring and career development.

Lead and develop mobile engineering teams building Ford’s customer-facing app. Provide technical direction across product development and production, review architectures and designs, establish engineering standards for documentation, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, evaluate mobile technologies, and partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

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.

Lead and mentor application development teams to modernize legacy systems, implement AI-assisted development, integrate low-code/no-code and business rules engines, drive architecture and technical innovation, manage project portfolios, timelines and resources, and align technology initiatives with business goals.

Leads software engineering delivery, application stability, modernization, and production support for critical platforms. Oversees the full software development lifecycle, provides technical and architecture direction, manages risks and compliance, and partners with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Finance, and business stakeholders. The role manages budgets, delivery dependencies, engineering goals, and a team of engineers while driving reliable, scalable, and cost-effective outcomes.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

Manage and grow a product engineering team at a remote cloud cost-management software company. Lead prioritization, delivery, quality standards, recruiting, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and leadership. Help engineers ship customer-focused features spanning spend management, interfaces, data pipelines, visualizations, and application performance. Coach engineers, remove blockers, promote ownership, and guide tradeoffs between velocity and quality.

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 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 develop distributed software engineering teams; define and execute platform roadmap, architecture, and standards; improve delivery, reliability, and developer productivity; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver scalable cloud-native platform services and shared capabilities.

Leads a distributed frontend engineering team responsible for Firefox Desktop user interface improvements. The manager drives technical decisions, project delivery, quality, monitoring, maintainability, engineering processes, hiring, mentoring, feedback, and team development. They collaborate with Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science, manage risks and trade-offs, communicate with senior leadership, and deliver user-facing experiences across concurrent initiatives.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing code and providing technical direction. Owns agile rituals, production feature delivery, technical architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product and design teams, supports enterprise customers, and drives adoption of AI throughout software development. The role focuses on healthcare software, patient data collection, regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and integrations using HL7 and FHIR.

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.

Lead a greenfield engineering team to integrate Ripple digital asset capabilities into Ripple Treasury. Manage and mentor up to four full-stack .NET developers, design .NET backends and Angular/React frontends, ship iteratively via Kanban, collaborate with product, compliance, and core digital assets teams, and define engineering practices for reliability, security, and auditability.