Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Leads multiple global software engineering teams modernizing pharmacy benefit management technology. Oversees API-first architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, Source of Truth platforms, cloud-native applications, and legacy migrations. Manages technical roadmaps, program execution, budgets, staffing, vendors, compliance, and executive partnerships. Develops engineering managers and talent while applying AI-enabled tools and automation to improve productivity and delivery outcomes.

Leads software engineering teams developing innovative applications and scalable architectures for tax-focused digital transformation. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, deploying, and integrating software using .NET, Java, Python, Azure, APIs, and microservices. The role drives continuous delivery, applies systems thinking and ATDD, aligns solutions with client and business needs, and coaches diverse, high-performing teams through complex initiatives.

Leads software and Information Solutions projects for manufacturing and industrial clients, overseeing architecture, execution, client relationships, staffing, schedules, quality, commissioning, and customer satisfaction. Manages, mentors, recruits, and develops engineers while supporting firm-wide standards and technical capability growth. The role requires MES, data collection, reporting, and analytics expertise, strong client communication, and travel for installations, meetings, training, and industry events.

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 the Buyer Cloud Tier-2 engineering team to ensure platform availability, performance, and operational excellence. Own incident response, RCA, release readiness, monitoring, automation, and cross-functional coordination while balancing hands-on troubleshooting, engineering initiatives, and people management.

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.

Leads and mentors an engineering team, overseeing technical decisions, architecture, delivery, quality, testing, CI/CD, support escalations, and continuous improvement. Partners with product, design, customer success, and engineering leadership to deliver roadmap commitments. Manages prioritization, KPIs, delivery health, hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

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.

Lead a portfolio of backend engineering projects and a team building distributed microservices and full-stack systems to meet regulatory needs. Collaborate with product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions at scale, mentor engineers, stay current with technologies, and occasionally write or evaluate code.

Lead and manage forward-deployed software engineering teams in PwC's Tax practice. Own project planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery of API-driven, microservices-based applications. Mentor staff, implement CI/CD, ensure enterprise application integration, optimize system interactions, and collaborate with clients and support teams to resolve software issues and drive digital transformation.

Lead and manage teams to design, build, test, and deploy enterprise software solutions. Drive CI/CD, API-driven integrations, code quality, client engagement, and process improvements while coaching high-performing teams.

Leads a team of mobile developers while designing and delivering iOS applications using Swift. Responsibilities include managing engineers, mentoring team members, reviewing code, partnering with UX, product, and quality teams, leading major platform components, participating in Agile ceremonies, advocating for mobile development, and improving engineering practices and processes.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.

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 coaches a team building and maintaining integrations between a cybersecurity platform and third-party technologies. Responsibilities include technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, direct engineering contribution, delivery planning, stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, and team development. The manager balances new integrations, maintenance, customer needs, and technical debt while promoting reliable engineering practices and practical use of AI-assisted development tools.

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.

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.

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 a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead and grow an engineering team, set technical vision, drive delivery of scalable secure systems, partner with product/design, establish engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, TDD), mentor engineers, and promote innovation to advance Function's healthcare platform.