Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable enterprise software and products. Own engagement relationships, product roadmaps, architecture (APIs, microservices), CI/CD and quality practices, project planning, and mentoring of junior staff to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

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.

Lead and mentor a team building LeafLink’s eCommerce marketplace. Provide technical leadership, set architecture and delivery plans, coordinate cross-team dependencies, manage incidents, recruit talent, and balance product delivery with platform health, scalability, security, and developer productivity.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Lead and grow a small software engineering team building MongoDB's distributed query engine. Mentor engineers, contribute code, guide architecture and feature design, remove blockers, coordinate dependencies, plan hiring and resources, estimate delivery timelines, and set team culture to deliver new query features and performance improvements.

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

Lead and grow a Targeted Collection Engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable data collection and warehousing systems. Own a managed attribution browser, set technical strategy, partner with product and cross-functional teams, and ensure data reliability, security, and scale for national security customers.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

Lead and mentor a team of UI engineers to define and execute the Dragos Platform UI vision. Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product Managers to deliver consistent user experiences, establish front-end best practices and performance optimizations, support production deployments, and balance delivery, quality, technical debt, and team career development across product teams.

The Engineering Manager leads a team in delivering reliable software solutions, blending technical contributions with team leadership, managing projects, and improving processes.

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 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 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 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.

Manage and grow the Video Enablement engineering team, own core video pipeline (ingest, transcode, storage, playback), enable third-party device integrations, collaborate on video roadmap, ensure scalable resilient AWS infrastructure, mentor engineers, contribute technically when needed, and support production incidents and cross-team enablement.

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

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.