Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.

Leads a full-stack engineering team developing customer-facing SaaS products across web, mobile, backend, and AI systems. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, delivery planning, product health, and measurable customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define and ship products, uses production data to guide priorities, and hires, develops, and manages engineering talent.

Lead Tailscale’s Developer Relations Engineering team while remaining hands-on with integrations, prototypes, demos, open-source projects, workshops, tutorials, and technical content. Own the team roadmap, coach technical contributors, collaborate cross-functionally on launches and product feedback, and measure developer engagement, activation, adoption, and business impact. The role requires strong software engineering, developer advocacy, program management, communication, and experience working in public developer ecosystems.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.

Lead a team in developing scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, manage expectations, and contribute to code. Focus on high-quality software practices.

The Engineering Manager leads the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, overseeing application design, development, and system integration while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement in software quality.

Manage engineering teams and operations for the BootStack service, ensuring quality and timely delivery of managed services while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing team performance.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a remote team, manage MLOps projects, ensure high performance, and mentor engineers while driving product strategies.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers to enhance AppArmor security features, ensuring high quality results and collaboration with stakeholders.

Lead architecture and scalability of cloud-native applications, manage a team of engineers, improve performance, and ensure code quality.

The Engineering Manager will lead teams building a scalable device passport platform, mentor engineers, manage backlog, and contribute coding while ensuring quality and documentation standards.

Leads an autonomous team of 8–10 engineers developing payment acceptance and value-added services such as network tokens, account updater, 3DS, and account validation. Oversees AI-augmented software delivery, architecture, hiring, coaching, roadmap collaboration, reliability, security, incident response, testing, observability, and compliance. Partners cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade financial products and participates in on-call rotations.

Leads the Customer Developer Experience engineering team, setting technical strategy for open-source TypeScript and React tooling. Responsibilities include supporting external developers, improving documentation and integration workflows, prioritizing work with cross-functional teams, recruiting, mentoring engineers, and maintaining high standards for software quality, testing, and reliability.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Reporting team, driving technical and product strategy, managing engineers, and collaborating across functions to enhance Vanta's reporting capabilities and product innovations.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building high-scale, low-latency consumer authorization platforms. Provide technical vision, partner with product, security, and data teams, balance short-term needs with long-term strategy, and hire, mentor, and retain diverse engineering talent.

Lead two teams (Consent Data & Privacy and User Data Management) as a manager-of-managers, owning execution and multi-year technical vision for user consent, data collection, storage, pipelines, access, retention, and compliance. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Legal to enforce consent and data governance at scale, adapt to evolving regulations, and drive architecture and platform solutions.

Lead two engineering groups building shared foundational services (identity, subscription). Drive technical strategy, architecture, observability, CI/CD, and DORA metrics. Manage people, hiring, cross-team collaboration, product partnerships, and mentor engineers while occasionally prototyping and contributing to code and technical planning.

Manage and develop an engineering team while owning delivery, hiring, performance, technical judgment, and escalation response. Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, use coding agents effectively, improve engineering processes, and help engineers build stronger skills in scoping, estimation, decision-making, and ownership. Balance roadmap priorities with customer commitments and turn recurring issues into lasting product improvements across HumanSignal’s AI data and annotation platforms.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team while staying hands-on: design and build Python/FastAPI services with Temporal and Postgres, own roadmap and delivery, set SLIs/SLOs, drive observability and reliability, run engineering rituals, hire and coach engineers, and improve quality with DevOps and AI tooling.

Leads a large engineering team responsible for scalable customer runtime infrastructure supporting Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites. Oversees technical strategy, architecture, project delivery, modernization, operational reliability, mentoring, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration. Guides cloud infrastructure transformation, reviews critical code, manages multiple priorities, and develops a high-performance engineering culture across global teams.

Leads secure, reliable IT infrastructure supporting distributed clinical research sites and remote employees. Manages enterprise networking, Azure and Microsoft 365 services, endpoint platforms, automation, AI-enabled operations, vendors, budgets, and technology projects. Oversees site deployments, security and compliance initiatives, service delivery, and operational improvements while recruiting, coaching, and developing technical teams.

Lead and grow engineering teams building AI-powered automation (especially LLM/Agentic AI) for compliance. Drive architecture, scalable multi-tenant systems, cloud-based engineering, cross-functional roadmaps, hiring, code quality, incident response, and delivery of high-impact AI/ML products.

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.