Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

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 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 internal research engineering team supporting data science, education, and partnership initiatives. Manages engineers and students, establishes software development and quality standards, oversees computing resources, mentors staff, evaluates project proposals, and serves as a technical liaison to researchers and external partners. Provides technical leadership in cloud deployment, database design, microservices, DevOps, and software development while contributing to project planning, code review, project execution, and program priorities.

Lead the Desktop Software Engineering team, ensuring application reliability, managing desktop systems, and building effective endpoint engineering processes.

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 software engineering teams and enterprise application portfolios supporting sales execution, order management, CRM, ERP, and integrations. Owns solution strategy, architecture, delivery, roadmaps, application stability, security, testing, releases, budgets, vendors, and service performance. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize capabilities, manage risks, drive modernization, ensure adoption, and develop high-performing teams.

Leads SAP S/4HANA Record-to-Report technology strategy, engineering, delivery, support, and continuous improvement. Oversees software engineering and support teams supporting General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Tax, Product Costing, Project Systems, and Vendor Invoice Management. Partners with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders, manages implementations and integrations, improves service delivery, ensures technical quality and compliance, and develops team talent and vendor relationships.

Leads the FastAuth software engineering team, owning delivery, technical direction, team health, hiring, performance management, career development, and organizational planning. The role oversees multiple concurrent workstreams using React, TypeScript, .NET, Azure, and event-driven integrations. It requires cross-functional collaboration, scaled agile planning, data-driven delivery management, stakeholder alignment, and adoption of AI tooling. Healthcare, pharmacy, payer, prior authorization, and FHIR experience are preferred.

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 Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, combining people leadership with technical strategy across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and efficiency. The manager will develop engineers, establish ownership, improve operational health, lead modernization and disaster-recovery initiatives, build automation and self-service infrastructure, and coordinate with engineering and security leaders. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least two years managing software or infrastructure engineers.

Leads a distributed software engineering organization responsible for GCP infrastructure, DevOps, video ingestion, media processing, AI-powered evidence workflows, and secure data systems. Owns technical strategy, platform reliability, architecture standards, roadmaps, budgets, talent development, and cross-functional alignment with product, security, executive, and third-party connector teams. The role requires extensive software, platform, infrastructure, DevOps, and engineering management experience, with hands-on knowledge of Java, Python, Kafka, GCP, Terraform, cloud security, and video-processing architectures.

Leads people management, workforce planning, capability development, hiring, and delivery sustainability for a software engineering team building Revit add-ins, Blazor applications, integrations, installers, deployment services, and licensing tools. The role bridges software engineering with AEC and Revit workflows, supports productization and user readiness, develops technical leadership, and improves management systems for distributed teams.

Leads software engineering teams through people management, workforce and capacity planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and sustainable delivery practices. Partners with technical, architecture, product, project, and HR leaders while maintaining clear leadership boundaries. The role develops engineers and managers, addresses organizational risks, improves management systems, and supports distributed Microsoft-centric engineering teams.

Leads multiple Agile software engineering teams developing and supporting enterprise claims systems. Provides technical and people leadership, shapes architecture and technology roadmaps, drives delivery, and promotes engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevOps, security, scalability, and reliability practices. Responsibilities include talent development, hiring, performance management, stakeholder collaboration, operational support, workforce planning, and continuous improvement.

Leads and manages software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, budgeting, planning, roadmap delivery, system design, and technical strategy. Oversees scalable, secure, compliant applications across multiple technology stacks, drives CI/CD, migrations, modernization, process improvement, and engineering best practices, and partners with product and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality customer-facing solutions.

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.

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 software engineering teams developing the Health100 consumer health platform. Responsibilities include architectural leadership for distributed systems, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities; recruiting and mentoring engineers; managing initiatives through delivery and production operations; establishing performance, risk, and governance practices; and partnering across product, design, security, analytics, and business teams. The role emphasizes Java, cloud-native development, microservices, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and scalable platform solutions.

Leads Quality Engineering and SDET teams supporting Medicare Sales and Acquisition software. Develops AI-augmented test automation, AWS-native testing infrastructure, CI/CD quality gates, API and React testing, and agent-orchestrated SDLC workflows. Establishes governance for AI-generated test artifacts, manages engineering metrics, mentors team members, and partners with business, product, engineering, and DevOps stakeholders to improve automation coverage, quality, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.

Leads and develops a software engineering team, owns engineer growth, partners with Product and technical teams on architecture and data models, facilitates technical roadmap execution, translates business goals into requirements, and drives scalable, maintainable solutions amid ambiguity.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale commercial banking client onboarding and compliance platforms. Oversees architecture, development, integration, modernization, delivery, and support for onboarding, KYC/AML, workflow, document management, identity, access, and FIS core banking integrations. Partners with business, product, compliance, security, architecture, and vendors while coaching technical teams and ensuring secure, reliable cloud-based solutions.