Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and manage a team building highly available, scalable full-stack microservices for global payments. Drive cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and occasionally write or review code. Ensure regulatory-compliant, secure, and performant payment infrastructure.

Lead and mentor full-stack engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable client-facing and proprietary software. Drive architecture, technical roadmap, Agile delivery, cloud-native migrations, API integrations, quality metrics, and cross-functional collaboration while balancing hands-on development and people leadership to meet product and business goals.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team to deliver OS features for mission-critical edge systems. Manage timelines, risks, contractors, and resource allocation while ensuring safety, compliance (e.g., DO-178C), code quality, and Agile processes in certification-driven environments.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team, oversee software architecture, and collaborate with various teams to deliver high-performance healthcare software.

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.

The role requires leading a backend engineering team to develop Affirm Card platform solutions, collaborating cross-functionally, and fostering a high-performance culture.

Lead and grow a team of 6–12 software engineers, drive project execution from planning to delivery, maintain technical standards and architecture, collaborate with Product and Design, conduct performance management and career development, recruit and retain talent, and improve engineering processes and team culture.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Manage the Middleware messaging team, oversee software installation, configuration, and maintenance, ensure service availability, and lead high-complexity projects.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team building Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure. Define architecture, drive design reviews, ensure security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations at scale. Guide implementation, incident response, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers and aligning stakeholders across Azure product teams.

Lead a BSP/platform software team, manage projects, and oversee technical execution while engaging in hands-on development of embedded Linux solutions.

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

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop and maintain software solutions, collaborate with various teams, and implement CI/CD practices. They will also mentor engineers and influence organizational technology strategies.

Lead and grow an engineering team building SELECT, a cloud cost management platform. Drive technical strategy, architecture, development practices, reliability, and cross-functional execution. Mentor engineers, manage performance and hiring, and improve delivery processes to scale the product and organization.

Lead the software and infrastructure teams for a UCaaS platform, driving delivery and operational excellence while coaching engineers and managing projects.

The Software Engineering Manager leads an agile Scrum team to deliver a cloud-based digital construction platform for utilities, ensuring operational quality and team development while managing project outcomes and engineering practices.

Manage two Reporting/BI scrum teams delivering financial reporting for the CEM platform. Own delivery, people, and client relationships; provide technical SQL/BI leadership; drive AI-first tooling adoption; coordinate cross-functional alignment; hire and develop engineers across distributed locations.

Lead the Orchestration Services team, managing engineering projects and guiding team members, while ensuring reliable, scalable data processing systems.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

The Senior Engineering Manager at Planet leads the engineering team, focusing on delivering products for Defense Intelligence. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, refining processes, and collaborating across teams for effective deployment of technology.

Lead a Java full-stack engineering team to design and deliver enterprise-scale distributed applications. Guide product roadmap, technical design, and Agile delivery (Scrum/SAFe). Oversee Java/Spring Boot backends, Angular/NgRx frontends, CI/CD and TDD practices, and cloud/container deployments. Prioritize user-centered design and stakeholder collaboration. Hybrid role in Richardson, TX.

Lead the engineering team for Rescale's core cloud computing orchestration engine, focusing on AI-assisted development, operational excellence, and scalable distributed systems.

Lead and mentor cross-functional e-commerce engineering teams to deliver resilient, observable, high-quality software. Hire and retain engineers and QA, optimize lean value streams, partner with product and staff engineers on design and delivery, and continuously improve workflows, tools, and processes to enable daily delivery of business value.

Lead engineering teams to develop and optimize .NET and Salesforce applications, driving architectural standards and ensuring project delivery while managing a cross-functional team.