Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Lead the Methods and Insights engineering teams, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery, operational health, architecture, and developer experience. Partner with product leaders and founders to sequence work, manage risk, improve engineering processes, and ship reliable systems. Build AI-agent development practices, shared components, CI gates, conventions, and harnesses that help engineers move quickly while maintaining quality.

Leads a global Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across Azure-based SaaS platforms. Establishes SRE standards, develops team capabilities, improves automation and observability, leads incident and disaster recovery efforts, and partners cross-functionally on platform resilience, governance, capacity, and cloud optimization. Requires strong technical leadership, experience with large-scale SaaS environments, and expertise in reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and operational maturity.

Lead and mentor a product engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, code reviews, architecture, and technical direction. Partner with product and cross-functional teams to deliver the roadmap, improve engineering quality, and build a culture of ownership. Requires strong software engineering experience, people leadership, React, TypeScript, Python, startup experience, customer-facing product experience, and regular coding. The role is remote in the US or Canada with occasional customer visits.

Manages one or more full-stack engineering teams responsible for merchant payment capabilities. Owns hiring, coaching, performance, delivery, technical standards, operational health, incident response, reliability, and legacy modernization. Partners with product, design, QA, SDET, and senior technical leaders to deliver .NET and Node.js systems predictably. Requires technical depth in APIs, Kafka, observability, resilience, and regulated payments environments, with accountability for team outcomes and sustainable execution.

Leads and develops a globally distributed engineering team while shaping technical strategy, modernizing a SaaS platform, and building scalable solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, improving CI/CD, reliability, delivery practices, and advancing responsible AI adoption across engineering.

Leads and develops a globally distributed software engineering team while remaining 50% hands-on. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy and modernization, building scalable SaaS solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies, improving CI/CD and reliability, mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, and advancing responsible AI use across engineering.

Leads a global Application Engineering organization supporting commercial vehicle and rail customers. Builds technical relationships with OEMs, Tier suppliers, fleets, operators, and partners; translates customer and market insights into new product opportunities; identifies cross-selling and competitive displacement opportunities; establishes global operating practices; develops technical capabilities; and leads customer workshops, trials, issue resolution, and commercialization activities across regions.

Leads and develops an electrical engineering team while remaining hands-on with switchgear, switchboard, and power distribution design. Reviews drawing packages and BOMs, assigns project ownership, manages delivery commitments, provides technical direction, supports customer and Sales communication, and ensures compliance with electrical standards. The role also contributes to design standards, manages capacity and technical risks, and collaborates with Project Management, Production, Procurement, Quality, Sales, and Test teams.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams while remaining 20–30% hands-on with coding, debugging, APIs, architecture, and scalable platform services. Coordinates engineering, product, quality, SRE, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable SaaS software. Owns technical direction, roadmap influence, incident management, operational excellence, KPIs, resource allocation, hiring, performance management, and continuous improvement across globally distributed teams.

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.

Lead a cross-functional backend and iOS engineering squad to grow paid subscribers by building and maintaining app store and Stripe integrations, prioritize platform stability, drive growth experiments, manage delivery and tech debt, and coach engineers through close partnership with Product and Design.

Engineering Manager leading multiple software development teams and owning people management, staffing, project delivery, timelines, dependencies, risk mitigation, deployment readiness, and process improvement. The role partners closely with Product Management and Tech Leads to define scope, manage tradeoffs, ensure delivery commitments, develop engineering talent, and maintain engineering quality and predictability. This is a remote, nationwide position requiring 8–10% travel.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of Airbnb’s third-party supply integration platform. Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team, guide technical and AI direction, deliver enterprise-scale integrations, and collaborate with Product, Data Science, Business Development, senior leadership, and external partners to ensure reliable, scalable platform performance.

Leads a site reliability engineering team and owns the reliability, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations roadmap. Establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability metrics while advancing self-healing systems, AIOps, CI/CD, chaos engineering, incident response, capacity planning, and ITSM/ITOM integrations. Develops engineers, manages vendors, partners with security and governance teams, and drives adoption of engineering-led reliability practices across technology organizations.

Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and infrastructure supporting Akamai’s cloud hypervisor platforms. Improve observability, automate infrastructure processes, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call service restoration. The role requires deep Linux, kernel, virtualization, ARM hardware, large-scale infrastructure, DevOps, and configuration-management expertise.

Leads a managed services engineering team responsible for AIX, Unix, and Linux service delivery. Oversees customer satisfaction, SLA performance, staffing, workload allocation, process improvement, operational procedures, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Manages customer reviews, support escalations, performance management, hiring, on-call schedules, and continuous service improvement while coordinating strategic and tactical technology plans across internal teams and partners.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for Commercial OnStar products and Commercial APIs. Sets engineering strategy, roadmaps, and operating plans; guides architecture modernization, reliability, observability, and incident response; and drives customer, revenue, adoption, and service-quality outcomes. Partners across product, infrastructure, security, privacy, vehicle data, sales, and support organizations. Builds engineering leadership, hires and develops talent, manages organizational design, and represents the function in executive and customer engagements.

Lead a small Infrastructure and Agentic Platform team while serving as a hands-on engineering manager. Own AWS infrastructure, data platforms, security, compliance, reliability, and AI-native software development workflows. Mentor engineers, guide hiring, define the roadmap, and build tools for planning, coding, testing, monitoring, and triage. The role requires balancing AI acceleration with engineering quality, cost, security, and operational reliability in a healthcare AI environment.

Leads the Customer Studio engineering team across product development, technical roadmap execution, reliability, recruiting, delivery pace, and people development. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management while addressing data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI initiatives.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Leads and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.