Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own UI architecture, mentor team members, manage technical initiatives, and drive AI-powered feature development.

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 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 Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

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.

Lead and grow a platform and infrastructure engineering team (Infrastructure/SQL reliability, Developer Experience, or Tooling). Hire, mentor, and manage delivery of quarterly roadmaps; remain technically engaged in design and code reviews; partner with product, SRE, and security to drive reliability, observability, CI/CD, and platform strategy. Own toolchain, reliability goals, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead and mentor a distributed infrastructure team to maintain and scale Airship's GCP cloud environment. Drive CI/CD, observability, automation, cost optimization, security, incident response, and infrastructure projects while collaborating cross-functionally and participating in hiring.

Leads an engineering team delivering secure, scalable, reliable technology solutions. Oversees planning through release, staffing, performance management, technical decision-making, risk resolution, stakeholder alignment, and delivery health. Partners with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, QA, vendors, and business teams. Promotes cloud-native development, CI/CD, automation, testing, observability, maintainability, secure practices, and continuous improvement while fostering accountability, collaboration, communication, and team growth.

Leads engineering teams delivering secure, scalable, reliable services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. Defines roadmaps, standards, governance, KPIs, and operating models; develops talent; guides complex technical decisions; drives modernization, automation, AI adoption, reliability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, vendors, and executives while managing delivery, budgets, resources, risks, and organizational performance.

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.

Lead and grow a ~10-engineer team building and modernizing cloud-native SaaS for RV and camping operators. Drive architecture, CI/CD, reliability, AI-assisted engineering practices, migrations from legacy to service-oriented systems, incident response, and measurable engineering KPIs while remaining technically hands-on.

Lead and mentor multiple software teams building promotional capabilities. Collaborate with product to define roadmaps, ensure reliable, scalable architectures, enforce development processes, hire, set KPIs/SLAs, and drive performance, scalability, and operational excellence.

Lead engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a team in architecting and maintaining Wikimedia's data feeds, focusing on collaboration, technical strategy, team development, and budget management.

Leads and develops a 5–10-person software engineering team, sets technical strategy, guides architecture and API design, and partners with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders. Owns product delivery, reliability, observability, incident response, security, automation, testing, continuous delivery, and operational health while hiring talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

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 and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

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.

Leads QA and application delivery across Tax & Licensing and Short-Term Rental platforms. Manages distributed employees and contractors, owns release and deployment processes, builds unified QA pipelines, expands test automation, establishes DORA delivery metrics, and reports release health and risks. Partners with engineering and product leadership while evaluating AI-assisted testing tools and developing team capabilities.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.