Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop and maintain software solutions, collaborate with various teams, and implement CI/CD practices. They will also mentor engineers and influence organizational technology strategies.

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead and manage a team developing the Aerospike Cloud Platform, focusing on architecture, execution, and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.

Lead and mentor a team of full‑stack/backend engineers building integrations, identity verification, SSO, account opening, funding/ACH pipelines, and a public API platform. Drive architecture and delivery, champion quality and reliability, partner with Product and Implementation on roadmap and escalations, and remain hands‑on to guide technical decisions and ship production software.

Lead and coach Quality Engineers and SDETs across product teams to implement risk-based exploratory testing and automation, align quality activities with delivery goals, partner on automation architecture and observability, manage workflows and incident response, report on risk and coverage, and mentor technical and strategic skills while promoting responsible AI-assisted testing practices.

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver backend services, platform components, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, testing, and operational readiness. Drive engineering standards, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement with emphasis on security, reliability, and scalable platform patterns.

Lead a ~10-engineer team to build and modernize cloud-native SaaS for marinas. Stay hands-on with Node.js/React/TypeScript code, drive architecture and migrations, enforce testing/observability/CI-CD, run incident response, recruit and coach engineers, and implement AI-assisted development practices aligned to product goals.

Lead and grow a systems engineering team owning identity, device, and ITSM platforms. Deliver joiner/mover/leaver automation in Okta Workflows, device assurance for macOS/Windows, rationalize ITSM, govern SaaS procurement and the AI tooling stack, and partner with Security, GRC, Finance, and Engineering to enable safe self-service.

Lead a globally distributed QA team to define QA strategy, governance, and audit-ready processes for regulated banking clients. Drive test automation, CI/release gating, regression coverage, incident response, and partner with Professional Services for UAT and integration validation while reporting quality KPIs.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead and mentor a team building Twilio's next-generation low-latency, high-throughput media processing stack. Drive architecture and technical decisions, balance reliability with feature delivery, own performance and reliability targets, collaborate across product and platform teams, reduce technical debt, and establish engineering excellence in testing, code quality, and operations for global real-time media services.

Lead and hands-on manage the Catalog engineering team, own sprint delivery and architecture, write and ship full‑stack production code using AI-assisted tooling, hire and grow engineers, and drive collaboration with product and design while shaping an AI-driven SDLC.

Lead a small engineering team as a hands-on technical manager to design, develop, and deploy core product features. Hire, scale, and mentor engineers while ensuring high quality, security, and best practices. Collaborate with Product, Data, and Clinical partners and drive execution for a new health plans and systems vertical and Bend Health platform work.

Lead one or more engineering teams owning mission, execution, code quality, and morale. Partner with product managers on roadmaps, remove roadblocks, improve processes, coach and grow engineers, and drive innovation while delivering high-traffic full-stack or data applications at scale.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, secure SaaS applications. Drive development best practices (code review, testing, CI/CD), align technical execution with business goals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and design, monitor KPIs, and integrate generative AI tools to improve productivity. Oversee hiring, training, performance evaluations, and cross-functional collaboration in an Agile environment.

Lead and grow a full-stack application engineering team delivering end-to-end product features (React frontend, Kotlin-backed services). Own hiring, coaching, delivery, architecture, technical debt, quality, and cross-team execution. Drive product-aligned priorities, unblock hard problems, improve processes, and ensure operational ownership and predictable delivery.

Lead and grow a small SRE/DevOps team to ensure reliability, scalability, and compliance of an AWS-hosted SaaS platform handling PHI. Accountable for SLOs/SIIs, incident response, IaC (CDK/Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability, cost and capacity planning, security/compliance (HIPAA/SOC2/HITRUST), DR planning, and cross-functional partnership with engineering, product, and security.

Lead and grow an engineering team building StrongDM's just-in-time proxy and control-plane platform. Manage delivery of distributed systems in Go across AWS/multi-cloud, oversee code/design reviews (security, TLS/mTLS, credential brokering), translate roadmaps into execution plans, hire and develop engineers, and collaborate with product, architects, and DevOps/SRE to ensure secure, reliable platform operations and compliance with policy-as-code standards.

Lead a cross-functional engineering team to design and deliver SMART on FHIR applications embedded in EMR workflows. Champion AI-driven, agent-assisted development, collaborate with data engineering on Python/dbt/SQL pipelines, implement engineering best practices, and manage hiring, mentorship, and stakeholder communication while ensuring quality, reliability, and interoperability.

Manage a team of cloud engineers to govern and optimize a multi-cloud environment while implementing security frameworks and managing vendor relationships.

As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team in enhancing content workflows through automation and AI, develop scalable solutions, and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Lead a 4–7 engineer team owning delivery of consumer and enterprise restaurant applications. Manage capacity, hiring, budgets, launch execution, long-term architecture, AI tooling guidance, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder communication to ensure scalable, reliable product rollouts.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineers, plan sprints, recruit team members, and oversee engineering productivity, contributing to greenfield projects and guiding technical direction.