Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads a full-stack engineering team while remaining hands-on with AWS infrastructure, cloud security, observability, reliability, and AI-first development practices. Owns AWS CDK architecture, serverless scalability, internal tooling, engineering standards, and product development using TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, and related technologies. Manages engineers, partners with product and Salesforce teams, coordinates distributed development, and supports hiring and team growth.

Leads and develops a team of GTM engineers building AI agents, workflows, integrations, and internal infrastructure for marketing, sales, and customer success. Establishes engineering standards, documentation, review, ownership, and rollback practices; partners on roadmap planning; manages technical vendor relationships; and coordinates transitions from prototypes to long-term engineering ownership. The role remains hands-on while hiring, mentoring, and improving team operations in a fully remote environment.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions for CMS Hospital Quality Reporting systems. Manages hiring, performance, coaching, team development, resource planning, engineering standards, architectural decisions, code reviews, and delivery processes. Collaborates with Product Managers to align engineering work with product goals while fostering technical excellence, continuous improvement, and an inclusive remote-first culture.

Leads a large software engineering organization responsible for vehicle development deliverables, application architecture, product development, quality, scalability, and engineering processes. Manages three people leaders and twelve individual contributors, provides technical and strategic direction, removes roadblocks, develops talent, and collaborates cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams. Drives innovation, best practices, and organizational initiatives while overseeing software architecture, development, testing, and technology adoption. The role requires 10% domestic travel and supports 100% telecommuting.

Leads engineering for Buffer’s Growth area across acquisition, activation, and retention. Coaches engineers, shapes priorities with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, guides technical decisions, connects customer insights to measurement, supports AI-enabled development, and contributes to hiring and engineering practices. The role requires strong technical judgment, product-growth understanding, clear communication, and experience helping engineers develop in a distributed environment.

Manages EMI engineering and high-power EMI/EMC testing for naval and maritime power systems. Responsibilities include developing test plans and procedures, executing tests, managing lab resources and ISO 17025 compliance, coordinating technical teams, overseeing project schedules and risks, reporting results, and supporting business development. The role requires extensive experience with DoD EMI standards, energy storage and power conversion equipment, technical leadership, and customer liaison responsibilities.

Lead Honeydew’s Operations Experience engineering team, owning people management, planning, delivery, technical quality, and cross-functional execution. Manage engineers, a tech lead, and contractors through regular feedback, growth planning, agile ceremonies, and performance management. Improve delivery metrics, surface risks and tradeoffs, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership, and develop the team’s long-term structure, capacity, and hiring plan.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Lead the Admin Experience backend engineering team, setting technical direction for user access, account hierarchies, administration workflows, APIs, data models, and authorization. Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while partnering with Product and adjacent teams on roadmap planning. Balance feature delivery with production support, reliability, testing, observability, documentation, and secure operational practices for customer-facing SaaS services.

Leads Infrastructure teams responsible for CI/CD, developer platforms, Kubernetes, and AWS compute. Manages engineers, supports senior and staff-level technical leadership, drives platform consolidation and migrations, improves reliability and operational efficiency, coordinates cluster upgrades, and oversees PCI DSS compliance. The role treats engineers as platform customers by improving golden paths, self-service tooling, documentation, and AI-assisted workflows.

Lead two or more software engineering teams building and operating TopstepX, a real-time trading platform. Responsibilities include coaching and developing engineers, hiring and capacity planning, prioritizing delivery amid changing needs, and ensuring system availability, performance, quality, and resilience. The role requires leadership of production systems, incident response, observability, reliability investments, and collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building decentralized finance products. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing roadmaps and workflows, overseeing React and Solidity development, maintaining architecture and code quality, improving development and deployment processes, managing quality assurance and security, monitoring systems, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

Leads and grows the engineering team, oversees customer implementations and product delivery, manages stakeholders, balances customization with core product development, and establishes engineering quality and reliability practices. The role also remains hands-on with TypeScript and Node.js coding, code reviews, debugging, and production support. Experience with AI products, healthcare workflows, HIPAA, EHR integrations, and early-stage startups is valuable.

Lead the Data Streaming engineering sub-team responsible for reliable, scalable ingestion, normalization, and routing of cybersecurity telemetry. Manage and grow a 6–7 engineer team, establish SLOs and on-call processes, maintain schemas and data contracts, improve pipeline reliability and scalability, and collaborate with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory teams. The role requires hands-on expertise with streaming architectures, cloud-native operations, data quality, and pipeline observability.

Lead a 6–7 person engineering team responsible for building, shipping, and maintaining production-grade integrations with security platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Own the integration product roadmap, API contracts, reliability, compatibility, certification pipeline, and upstream change management. Partner with customer success, security research, and partnerships teams while hiring and developing engineers. The role requires hands-on technical expertise in Go or Python, enterprise authentication, event-driven architectures, AWS serverless services, and security data normalization.

Lead Headway’s Infrastructure team, owning AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM platform capabilities, databases, observability, reliability, and incident response. Hire and develop engineers, establish self-service platform practices, reduce incident blast radius, define production readiness for AI workloads, and partner with Security and product engineering teams. The role combines technical leadership, people management, platform strategy, design reviews, and hands-on incident response.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Leads and develops a software engineering team, overseeing hiring, performance, career growth, delivery, and technical execution. Establishes AI-native, spec-driven development practices, improves testing and CI/CD maturity, removes technical and organizational blockers, and drives cross-team engineering initiatives. Communicates team health, delivery, risks, and trade-offs to leadership and partners while guiding architecture and maintaining enough technical depth to review work credibly.

Leads a global software engineering team delivering backend services, integrations, platform migrations, product launches, and production support. Provides technical leadership in architecture, coding, testing, code review, Agile project delivery, and AI-assisted development within a regulated biotech environment. Manages hiring, mentoring, performance, stakeholder collaboration, and process improvement while establishing quality, security, traceability, and compliance standards.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.