Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads and develops a software engineering team building API, microservices, event-driven, and platform capabilities for KeepStock’s cloud transformation. Partners with product, UX, machine learning, architecture, security, and SRE teams to translate roadmaps into delivery plans. Oversees software development, testing, deployment, production support, quality, security, scalability, reliability, and performance. Establishes Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement practices while coaching talent and managing team performance.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for payment and fraud services, including application design, development, support, resiliency, architecture, APIs, scalability, and lifecycle management. Reviews Java and Spring Boot code, oversees incident response, drives technical standards and strategic initiatives, manages vendors and distributed teams, develops engineering talent, and promotes responsible AI adoption for coding and testing.

Lead a hands-on engineering team building and shipping features for a modern trucking transportation management system. Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, contribute to Ruby on Rails and React development, mentor engineers, maintain engineering quality, understand customer workflows, and deliver improvements quickly in a fully remote environment.

Leads data engineers and architects while owning Tempus’s enterprise data model and data reliability. Integrates clinical, genomic, NGS, and radiology data across relational and NoSQL systems; establishes modeling, observability, quality, and documentation standards; and mentors teams through technical reviews. Partners with product and engineering leaders to prioritize work and uses AI-assisted development tools to improve modeling, testing, and pipeline delivery. Requires strong SQL, Python, modern data stack, healthcare data standards, data observability, and healthcare/genomics domain expertise.

Leads tax technology software engineering workstreams from planning through deployment. Manages client-facing engagements, translates tax requirements into scalable technical solutions, reviews architecture and code, oversees CI/CD, and coaches engineers. The role also manages scope, budgets, timelines, performance, troubleshooting, and delivery quality while identifying automation and process improvement opportunities through AI fluency and analytical thinking.

Leads software engineering for tax technology solutions, overseeing architecture, coding, testing, deployment, project delivery, and AI-enabled innovation. Advises stakeholders, translates tax needs into scalable applications and microservices, evaluates technical tradeoffs, manages risks, and coaches engineering teams. Requires client collaboration, clear communication, systems thinking, and the ability to guide teams through complex and ambiguous situations.

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.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining NinjaOne SaaS products. Provides technical direction, participates in architecture, code reviews, integrations, and deployments, and partners with product, platform, and project management teams. Oversees engineering operations, team mentoring, software quality, continuous improvement, and successful product delivery across UI, mobile, server, and agent systems.

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 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 multiple software engineering teams building enterprise-scale reference data platforms. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, governing AI-assisted development, designing Java and Spring Boot microservices, developing event-driven data products, optimizing AWS-based pipelines, ensuring security and reliability, reviewing code, managing technical debt, supporting production incidents, and driving end-to-end delivery across distributed systems and data mesh architectures.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for hiring, coaching, delivery, quality, reliability, and technical execution. Partners with product and architecture teams to prioritize work, evaluate designs and estimates, resolve root causes, promote secure development, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, and improve engineering practices. Requires strong C# and .NET expertise, people management experience, cloud development knowledge, and the ability to deliver complex software with remote teams.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for delivery, quality, reliability, and professional growth. Hires, coaches, and evaluates engineers; oversees planning, prioritization, code and design reviews; drives root-cause analysis, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management. Partners with product, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable software while improving team practices, communication, and performance.

Leads a globally distributed software engineering team building Signal, an ERP platform supporting manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and infrastructure delivery workflows. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, delivery ownership, stakeholder collaboration, architectural guidance, process improvement, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools. The manager ensures high-quality, secure, predictable software delivery while remaining technically engaged in code reviews and planning.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

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.

Lead and grow an engineering team building agentic development systems. Set technical direction, contribute to architecture and implementation, and improve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, reliability, performance, and operability. Partner with Product and Design to create developer experiences while extending provider-agnostic model integrations. Coach engineers, clarify priorities, and maintain a high technical and execution standard.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering production-ready customer solutions through a Forward Deployed Engineering model. Responsibilities include portfolio and delivery leadership, coaching software engineers, technical program managers, and data scientists, serving as a player-coach, improving engineering practices, and applying responsible AI and LLM capabilities to customer engagements. The role includes customer collaboration, end-to-end solution delivery, and up to 25% travel.

Manages software engineering work within Ripple’s cryptocurrency and financial technology environment. The posting provides limited role-specific responsibilities or qualifications, but emphasizes collaboration, professional growth, startup-paced work, and in-office team interaction. Benefits include competitive compensation, bonuses, equity, healthcare, retirement support, wellness programs, vacation, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Leads a team developing, integrating, deploying, and sustaining automated manufacturing test software and systems for RF countermeasure products. Oversees test software architecture, verification, troubleshooting, product integration, proposal support, financial and project management, and continuous improvement. The manager coordinates technical and programmatic activities, develops engineering talent, and supports manufacturing quality, yields, cycle time, and software reliability in a production environment.

Manages and grows a software engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture, development, integration, and troubleshooting. Leads cloud-native AWS services, microservices, APIs, Python backend systems, frontend components, secure access controls, CI/CD, and production support for satellite communications ground systems. Collaborates with systems engineering, MBSE, cybersecurity, testing, DevSecOps, and government stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, traceable, and reliable mission software.

Leads the architecture, development, integration, and production support of Legal Technology platforms. This hands-on manager spends approximately 80% of the role coding, designing cloud-native systems, building APIs and integrations, applying Generative AI and LLM technologies, and ensuring reliability, security, and performance. The role also includes mentoring engineers, managing vendors, planning resources, defining operational metrics, and partnering with Legal, Compliance, and Technology stakeholders.