Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads and builds the engineering services function, overseeing DevOps, SRE, release engineering, infrastructure as code, data pipelines, security operations, and data governance. Manages a distributed team while establishing CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, on-call practices, SLOs, security standards, DORA reporting, and cloud cost visibility. The role remains hands-on and requires strong AWS, automation, reliability, and people leadership experience.

Leads a managed services engineering team supporting mainframe environments. Oversees customer satisfaction, service-level agreement delivery, staffing, resource allocation, operational processes, continuous improvement, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Serves as product owner for assigned services, manages performance and development, coordinates strategic technology planning, and supports customer reviews and escalations. Requires mainframe expertise, consulting leadership, ITIL knowledge, process improvement skills, and the ability to manage complex customer and business priorities.

Leads people management, workforce planning, capability development, hiring, and delivery sustainability for a software engineering team building Revit add-ins, Blazor applications, integrations, installers, deployment services, and licensing tools. The role bridges software engineering with AEC and Revit workflows, supports productization and user readiness, develops technical leadership, and improves management systems for distributed teams.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team while remaining hands-on with technical design and problem solving. Set backend architecture, service strategy, roadmaps, and engineering standards for scalable, secure systems. Partner with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver reliable customer-facing software, deploy models, improve platform tooling, and support incident response. Recruit engineers, guide team development, and foster ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for customer-facing products, payments, onboarding, internal tools, and production systems. Set technical direction, guide architecture, manage reliability and incident response, oversee delivery planning, and partner with Product, Design, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, capacity planning, operational excellence, and accountability for system quality, availability, performance, and delivery outcomes.

Leads two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for platform foundations, navigation, search, and resource organization. Oversees hiring, team development, technical direction, delivery, customer discovery, roadmap prioritization, and operational excellence. Partners with Product and Design, drives AI and automation adoption, maintains engineering standards, participates in management on-call, and improves productivity, reliability, accessibility, and customer outcomes across Grafana’s open-source and cloud products.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

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.

Leads software engineering teams through people management, workforce and capacity planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and sustainable delivery practices. Partners with technical, architecture, product, project, and HR leaders while maintaining clear leadership boundaries. The role develops engineers and managers, addresses organizational risks, improves management systems, and supports distributed Microsoft-centric engineering teams.

Lead the engineering team responsible for Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, operational processes, customer deployments, and enterprise support. Partner across engineering, sales, field engineering, and support; prioritize roadmap tradeoffs; maintain operational health; and grow the team through hiring and onboarding. The role requires technical leadership across Kubernetes and AWS, customer-facing collaboration, production on-call experience, and software delivery in private cloud, on-premises, BYOC, or managed single-tenant environments.

Leads a hands-on product engineering team, owning hiring, development, delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, and operational health. Partners with product and design to prioritize customer-focused work, manages milestones and dependencies, and contributes directly through code reviews, debugging, prototypes, and production fixes. Builds AI-native engineering workflows using agentic tools while maintaining security, correctness, human review, and strong engineering standards.

Lead a cross-functional advertising engineering squad of backend and iOS engineers. Partner with Product and Design to discover, prioritize, and deliver consumer-facing ad experiences through experimentation. Manage backlog health, technical debt, delivery quality, and team ceremonies while coaching engineers and fostering an empowered, high-trust team. Support scalable, maintainable mobile applications and navigate privacy, consent, and advertising requirements.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and development of Cadence’s AI-powered Clinical Intelligence platform. Build reliable clinical decision-support and medication recommendation systems using patient data, clinical protocols, safety rules, and clinician oversight. Hire, mentor, and grow AI, backend, and full-stack engineers while establishing engineering standards, testing, observability, validation, and regulatory-readiness practices. Partner with clinical, product, design, and AI stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable production systems.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.

Lead engineering ownership of an acquired consumer VPN product from due diligence through integration, stabilization, and growth. Manage and coach engineers while remaining hands-on with Kotlin, Swift, Go, architecture, operations, security, and production incidents. Establish testing, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and compliance practices; partner with product, corporate development, marketing, and operations; and create a repeatable engineering playbook for future acquisitions.

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.

Lead and coach a team of 4–8 engineers while providing technical direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on coding support. Partner with Product and Design on roadmaps, technical strategy, and delivery improvements. Promote software quality, reliability, and stability; lead incident response and post-mortems; and collaborate with engineering managers and stakeholders to reduce dependencies and support customer success.

Lead and grow the Database Platform team responsible for PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and future data stores supporting NodeZero at scale. Own data architecture, schema governance, reliability, performance, SLOs, migrations, on-call maturity, and multi-tenant data practices. Partner with engineering, security research, and product teams to define data contracts and prioritize the platform roadmap. Hire and mentor engineers while establishing strong operational and engineering standards.

Lead and grow a backend and full-stack engineering team responsible for Tradeify’s live trading platform. Partner with Product and Engineering teams on platform integrations, architecture, delivery, code quality, CI/CD, reliability, observability, and incident response. Remain hands-on through code reviews, design guidance, and technical problem solving while managing performance, hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional communication.