Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and mentor an engineering team to deliver high-quality SaaS features end-to-end. Drive architecture and technical decisions, manage execution and support escalations, improve CI/CD and observability, track delivery KPIs, and participate in hiring and career development to scale the team in a fast-growing startup environment.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor a team of engineers while driving architectural decisions and hands-on coding. The role involves managing technical execution, collaboration with product teams, and fostering a culture of excellence within the engineering team.

Lead two engineering squads building Breezeway's property operations product. Hire, coach, and grow engineers; own planning, delivery, and cross-squad coordination; set technical direction, architecture guidance, and engineering quality; partner with Product and Design to translate roadmap into executed work.

The Mobile Engineering Manager will lead a team of Android and iOS engineers, manage app feature development, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure project delivery in wearable technology.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for core platform services, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems. Drive operating cadence, technical direction, scalability, reliability, and debt reduction. Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in architectural decisions, hire and develop engineers, and ensure predictable delivery and high-quality solutions at scale.

Lead one or more engineering teams building and operating Airbnb's global payments platform. Set technical strategy, prioritize work, partner cross-functionally, drive reliability and compliance, reduce technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and deliver high-impact payment features and operational excellence at scale.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Lead a small team owning GFiber's multi‑terabit backbone design, reliability, capacity planning, and observability across IP and optical layers. Drive DWDM metro/long‑haul transport design, telemetry pipelines, automation tooling (Go/Python), and align team strategy with organizational goals while remaining hands‑on in design and code.

Lead and grow a mobile engineering squad building highly-available, distributed SaaS products. Drive technical execution, mentor engineers, run Agile ceremonies, hire, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, Security, Data, and GTM to deliver roadmap outcomes.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

Lead and grow the Customer Studio engineering team to deliver major product features, improve execution pace, hiring, reliability, and incident management. Drive data-warehouse performance optimizations, real-time audience syncing (CDC), analytics/experimentation, and integrate generative AI to improve user workflows while mentoring engineers and collaborating on roadmap and recruiting.

Lead day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Manage and grow multiple engineering teams (3–5 direct reports, hire 3–5 more), coach engineers to own large, loosely defined projects, provide feedback on specs, occasionally code/debug in the codebase, and lead department-wide initiatives to improve engineering practices (reviews, interviews, demo data, developer experience).

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

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

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.