Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Leads the Platform Development and browser engineering teams, overseeing architecture, development, delivery, optimization, and operational excellence for scalable enterprise software. Maintains hands-on technical involvement while building high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, driving AI enablement, improving engineering practices, and executing the product roadmap. Partners with Product, Architecture, Data, and AI teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant platform capabilities and communicates technical strategy and progress to executive stakeholders.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

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 a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead and grow an 8-10 person engineering team to design, build, and operate a multi-cloud data plane platform. Drive roadmap, delivery, release readiness, operational excellence, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and cross-functional partnerships with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and SRE.

Lead three Agile engineering teams (Inventory, Discovery, Identity Graph) owning technical roadmap, architecture, and delivery of cloud-native microservices. Mentor engineers, drive scalable distributed system design on Azure/AWS, promote AI-assisted development tools, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to launch new features and teams.

The role involves leading software engineering projects, mentoring a team, collaborating with product managers, and driving agile practices to enhance a cloud-native treasury platform at Ripple.

Manage and grow an engineering team building cloud-native, event-driven treasury platform services. Drive architecture and delivery, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, enforce engineering excellence, run Agile processes, and participate in on-call YBIYRI operations.

Lead teams that design, develop, deploy, and sustain automated manufacturing test software and systems for IRCM/RFCM products. Oversee architecture, test integration with fixtures/instrumentation, troubleshooting, proposal support, continuous improvement, and cross-functional coordination in a production environment.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

The Engineering Manager will lead teams in developing and managing Blackbaud's Data & AI platform, focusing on scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver backend services, platform components, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, testing, and operational readiness. Drive engineering standards, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement with emphasis on security, reliability, and scalable platform patterns.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead and grow an engineering team building StrongDM's just-in-time proxy and control-plane platform. Manage delivery of distributed systems in Go across AWS/multi-cloud, oversee code/design reviews (security, TLS/mTLS, credential brokering), translate roadmaps into execution plans, hire and develop engineers, and collaborate with product, architects, and DevOps/SRE to ensure secure, reliable platform operations and compliance with policy-as-code standards.

As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team in enhancing content workflows through automation and AI, develop scalable solutions, and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Lead a 4–7 engineer team owning delivery of consumer and enterprise restaurant applications. Manage capacity, hiring, budgets, launch execution, long-term architecture, AI tooling guidance, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder communication to ensure scalable, reliable product rollouts.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team, oversee product development, promote collaboration, and ensure competitive and innovative solutions.