Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead the Engineering team responsible for the API, focusing on platform strategy, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development and API performance.

Lead and grow a team focused on developer experience and internal platforms to improve engineering productivity. Define strategy, own CI/CD/build pipelines, tooling, local dev environments, observability, and automation. Partner across engineering, infra, security, SRE, product, and data to reduce friction, create golden paths, measure impact with delivery and reliability metrics, and drive adoption of AI-assisted developer workflows.

Lead a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps team supporting production SaaS environments across Azure and AWS. Own availability, observability, automation, incident response, on-call operations, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements. Manage employees and contractors, coordinate Sev1 and Sev2 incidents, improve monitoring and deployment practices, report operational health, and expand support for FedRAMP High and other regulated environments.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team across full-stack, data engineering, and BI. Own people management, technical direction (C#/.NET, SQL, Vue 3, Power BI), data pipeline reliability, roadmap delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices to improve velocity, quality, and health outcomes.

Lead and grow a 16-person engineering organization across four AI-focused pods. Set technical direction, guide AI-native product and engineering development, manage cross-team dependencies, and oversee delivery, quality, reliability, security, and velocity. Partner with product, design, and leadership on scalable full-stack systems, mentor engineers and technical leads, and promote strong practices in architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD within a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.

Lead and grow a backend/platform engineering team building API-driven systems and core services. Own technical direction, architecture, reliability, and integration with product, data science, and infrastructure. Hire and mentor engineers, contribute to code and architecture, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready backend APIs and platform tooling.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams across Supabase, owning people management, hiring, roadmap and delivery, incident command, SLOs, and cross-team coordination while driving engineering quality and async communication.

Lead and run engineering delivery end-to-end: own planning cadences, track projects, surface risks, command incident responses and run blameless RCAs, own delivery metrics, coach and grow engineers, run hiring pipeline, and enable the founder by removing operational load.

The Engineering Manager will lead and grow engineering teams working on core infrastructure, drive hiring, and ensure alignment in delivery between teams across disciplines.

The Technical Engineering Manager leads cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software delivery, drives technical innovation, mentors engineers, and manages operational efficiency within the banking software sector.

Lead and develop a software engineering team building an AI-powered litigation product. Manage projects, resource allocation, SDLC and compliance (SOC2), mentor engineers, run hiring and interviews, triage incidents, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive continuous improvement.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to develop scalable software solutions, ensuring technical excellence and driving product innovation. Responsibilities include mentoring, overseeing code quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical delivery and integration efforts for a SaaS platform: act as technical SME for APIs, support presales and customer onboarding, triage integration issues, create documentation, and align engineering with sales and operations to scale integrations and improve SLAs.

Lead and develop distributed backend teams owning digital experience, robot services, IoT data ingestion, and cloud platform. Ensure reliability, scalability, API/device contracts, CI/CD, observability, hiring, performance, and coordinated releases across firmware, app, and cloud.

Leads DevOps and Data Engineering teams supporting AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, incident response, data platforms, and pipelines. Sets platform strategy, mentors engineers, guides architecture, and manages technical roadmaps. Owns SOC 2 audits and penetration testing, coordinates vendors and auditors, improves security and reliability, and coaches teams on validating AI-assisted development. This player-coach role requires hands-on technical contribution and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise applications and SaaS products. Owns architecture, technical design, product lifecycle, roadmap execution, release quality, security, reliability, and operational readiness. Partners with Product, Architecture, Quality, Cloud, and Support teams, while driving engineering practices, AI-assisted development, process improvements, and customer issue resolution. Builds high-performing teams, coaches managers and engineers, and communicates technical direction, risks, and delivery outcomes to stakeholders.

Lead and grow a team building shared test systems, production-like environments, workload testing capabilities, failure-mode validation, and engineering test frameworks. Drive system-level coverage, cross-team alignment, measurable improvements in pre-production confidence, and integration of validations into continuous or release pipelines. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, internal platform delivery experience, organizational influence, and the ability to translate production incidents into preventative test coverage.

Leads a domain of GiveDirectly’s cash delivery platform, managing 5–7 senior engineers while owning technical outcomes, reliability, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with product and organizational stakeholders on roadmaps, technical debt, infrastructure, incident response, and engineering culture. Recruits, coaches, and retains a high-performing team; sets technical quality standards; and scales payment, core platform, or offline-first data collection systems to support billions in annual cash delivery.

Lead and grow a Support Engineering team that resolves complex product issues, integrations, and data workflows. Define escalation and triage practices, build scalable diagnostics and internal tools, collaborate closely with Engineering and Product, mentor engineers on debugging, logs, and database querying, and create repeatable processes to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

Manages software engineers and integration specialists building, deploying, and operating Fastpath Access Governance services. Owns the technical roadmap, delivery, quality, architecture, and operational health of cloud-native services. Partners with product, UX, and architecture teams in Scrum, drives AI-assisted engineering practices, oversees ERP and business application integrations, and develops a supportive, high-performing engineering culture.

Lead engineering teams to develop AI-powered software for local governments, enhance user-facing features, and drive continuous process improvement.

Leads engineering design authority and integration for a major copper mining project through FEED, construction, and handover. Directs EPCM performance, establishes design standards, manages technical risks, approves key engineering deliverables, and leads constructability, operability, value engineering, process safety, stage-gate, change control, quality, and technical assurance activities. Builds the owner’s engineering team and ensures designs are safe, operable, maintainable, cost-effective, and ready for operations.

Leads software engineering managers and teams delivering scalable connected-vehicle and fleet technology products. Responsibilities include technical direction, people development, project delivery, architecture and design reviews, risk management, recruiting, engineering process improvement, security and quality enhancement, technology evaluation, and cross-functional stakeholder leadership.

Manage and grow the Video Enablement engineering team, own core video pipeline (ingest, transcode, storage, playback), enable third-party device integrations, collaborate on video roadmap, ensure scalable resilient AWS infrastructure, mentor engineers, contribute technically when needed, and support production incidents and cross-team enablement.