Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads a full-stack engineering growth pod, owning its roadmap, delivery quality, team culture, hiring and career development. The manager remains hands-on by writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, coaching engineers, and participating in technical decisions. The team rapidly experiments with product experiences, using data-driven insights to help people discover and understand Atticus services. The role partners closely with product, design, and data science while operating in an ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment.

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.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

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 two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable infrastructure.

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.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

Leads and develops a software engineering team through coaching, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and engineering leadership on priorities, execution, architecture, and technical strategy. Reviews system designs, evaluates tradeoffs, supports code reviews, and drives improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, testing, and engineering processes. Works remotely with cross-functional leaders to deliver and maintain veterinary software products.

Leads engineering teams building and shipping scalable products, while coaching engineers, shaping strategy and roadmaps, maintaining engineering standards, recruiting talent, and supporting career development. Partners cross-functionally with product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to solve complex problems, manage multiple high-impact initiatives, optimize systems and processes, and deliver excellent user experiences.

Lead the Data Platform team in building reliable, scalable infrastructure and developer tooling for data engineering, analytics, and data science. Define the technical roadmap with engineering leadership, guide architecture and best practices, contribute hands-on through design reviews and coding, and partner cross-functionally to shape platform capabilities. Hire, coach, and develop engineers while managing stakeholder communication and delivery of self-service, observable, and governed data systems.

Lead delivery and technical execution for an AI-driven pipeline integrity platform spanning data architecture, engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and quality oversight. Manage compliance, security, audit readiness, release planning, hiring, team development, and cross-functional collaboration. Ensure platform outputs are traceable, reproducible, secure, and delivered predictably against phased milestones.

Leads a 20-plus-person distributed Review Engineering organization across three agile squads. Owns technical direction, production reliability, incident response, system scalability, delivery metrics, hiring, performance management, and engineering career growth. Partners with Product, Design, Security, Clinical Operations, and peer engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-quality systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Own a cross-functional engineering product pod, including roadmap delivery, technical quality, team culture, and engineer development. The role is a hands-on leadership position involving code reviews, architecture decisions, coding, performance management, hiring, and collaboration with product managers and designers. Potential focus areas include consumer experimentation, ML-powered lawyer matching, attorney tools, or AI-native legal products.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.