Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead a cross-functional backend and iOS engineering squad to grow paid subscribers by building and maintaining app store and Stripe integrations, prioritize platform stability, drive growth experiments, manage delivery and tech debt, and coach engineers through close partnership with Product and Design.

Engineering Manager leading multiple software development teams and owning people management, staffing, project delivery, timelines, dependencies, risk mitigation, deployment readiness, and process improvement. The role partners closely with Product Management and Tech Leads to define scope, manage tradeoffs, ensure delivery commitments, develop engineering talent, and maintain engineering quality and predictability. This is a remote, nationwide position requiring 8–10% travel.

Leads SAP manufacturing and production planning technology strategy, process design, configuration, integration, reporting, and release planning. Manages IT analysts and subject matter experts, oversees software engineering delivery, allocates resources, manages vendors, and drives continuous improvement through KPIs and stakeholder reporting. Requires expertise in manufacturing planning, ERP platforms, project management, and enterprise integration. Travel may reach 40% during the transformation.

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.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of Airbnb’s third-party supply integration platform. Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team, guide technical and AI direction, deliver enterprise-scale integrations, and collaborate with Product, Data Science, Business Development, senior leadership, and external partners to ensure reliable, scalable platform performance.

Lead the Landing Pages engineering team, overseeing product vision, architecture, software delivery, and team development. Partner with product and design to prioritize features, validate adoption using usage data, and scale web experiences, APIs, integrations, hosting, and reporting. Recruit, coach, and retain engineers while guiding major technical decisions and contributing code when appropriate.

Leads the Customer Studio engineering team across product development, technical roadmap execution, reliability, recruiting, delivery pace, and people development. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management while addressing data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI initiatives.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Manages multiple software engineering teams, overseeing technical strategy, project delivery, staffing, engineering processes, architecture, code quality, and employee development. Provides technical leadership across software, platform, and infrastructure initiatives; evaluates technologies and cloud platforms; establishes standards; manages timelines and resources; and advises research, teaching, and administrative projects. The role also guides system design, performance optimization, CI/CD, and delivery of high-quality applications.

Leads and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Leads and develops a team of 4–6 software engineers building and operating React Native mobile applications, backend services, and administration platforms. Responsibilities include people management, architecture, code quality, technical debt reduction, delivery planning, cross-team collaboration, infrastructure and security coordination, engineering metrics, and rotating on-call support. The role remains technically engaged through design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, and architectural guidance.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads software engineering teams building AI-enabled developer tooling, governed agent platforms, self-healing production agents, and internal builder workflows. Owns platform strategy, roadmap, architecture, observability, identity and access models, cost governance, operational metrics, and executive reporting. Requires production experience with LLM or agent systems, internal developer platforms, MCP architectures, cloud platforms, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, and non-human identity models.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.