Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs

Leads the GTI engineering team, managing people, delivery, architecture, code quality, releases, production health, and on-call operations. The role remains hands-on, requiring contributions across C#/.NET services, TypeScript/React frontend systems, SQL Server, Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and testing. The manager partners with product, design, and tax content teams to ship reliable tax and regulatory software on schedule.

Lead and develop a software engineering team building Iris, a GIS-based CAD platform for broadband network design. Drive technical design, architecture, delivery, and operational readiness while remaining hands-on in code, troubleshooting, and technical decisions. Partner with product, architecture, and operations to prioritize work, remove blockers, and improve engineering practices. Hire, onboard, coach, and provide feedback to grow a high-performing engineering culture.

Leads software development teams building GM Loyalty web and mobile platforms. Sets technical direction, manages roadmaps and delivery, coaches engineers, guides architecture, and ensures software quality, security, reliability, scalability, and compliance. Oversees integrations, cloud modernization, performance tuning, production deployments, incident resolution, and post-launch support while collaborating cross-functionally and promoting automation and AI adoption.

Leads the X-BAT Hardware Test Software team developing Python-based automated production test systems for avionics and aircraft electrical assemblies. Responsibilities include managing engineers, owning technical roadmaps, designing test frameworks and station-control software, integrating instrumentation and FPGA-enabled hardware, improving test coverage and production reliability, and coordinating with electrical, mechanical, embedded, manufacturing, and program teams.

Leads a cross-functional engineering and science team supporting U.S. Space Force software evaluation and integration. Responsibilities include evaluating physics-based concepts, designing and testing full-stack software, implementing end-to-end solutions, reviewing and writing code, translating RF and space weather requirements, coordinating engineering disciplines, mentoring personnel, and communicating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Lead multiple software engineering teams supporting a large-scale merchant transaction platform. Responsibilities include technology strategy, Java application modernization, architecture oversight, platform reliability, scalability, incident management, security and regulatory compliance, engineering metrics, staffing, budgeting, and talent development. The role partners with product, business, architecture, and operations stakeholders while driving cloud-native practices, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement.

Build and lead GM’s Core OS engineering organization for vehicle compute platforms. Define the team charter, hire engineers, establish architecture, and deliver production software supporting hypervisors, virtualization, containers, secure boot, safety monitoring, and Linux, Android, and QNX guest operating systems. Own roadmaps, KPIs, cross-functional integration, vendor partnerships, risk management, and vehicle-program milestones while ensuring scalable, reliable, and updateable platform software.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building customer-facing competitive intelligence products. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, translating priorities into execution plans, guiding architecture and quality, managing incidents, recruiting engineers, improving processes, and promoting responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires close collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership and is based in Rosslyn, Virginia, with at least three office days per week.

Leads multiple software engineering teams and managers responsible for scaling B2B SaaS products. The role combines people management, technical leadership, recruiting, mentoring, performance development, and engineering culture improvement. Responsibilities include promoting software quality, automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, Agile practices, and cross-functional collaboration with product, QA, security, sales, marketing, HR, and customer success teams.

Leads a team of 3D artists and pipeline engineers delivering content and simulation framework engineering for autonomous vehicle simulation. Provides technical leadership, manages execution, assigns priorities, reviews deliverables and documentation, removes roadblocks, and collaborates cross-functionally. Responsibilities also include hiring, staffing, employee development, training, performance management, compensation planning, and communicating team strategy and organizational policies.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and operations of Caterpillar’s search platform. Manages and mentors multiple software engineering teams while delivering scalable, high-performance search capabilities for web and mobile applications. Oversees integrations, quality assurance, IT service operations, analytics, and continuous relevance improvements using NLP, vector search, personalization, machine learning, and A/B testing. Partners with product, data science, and engineering leaders to align search initiatives with business objectives.

Leads a software engineering team supporting mission-critical C4ISR space systems. Responsibilities include technical oversight, architecture reviews, software design and sustainment, program execution, hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, proposal support, and collaboration with functional managers and discipline leads. The role requires onsite work in Hudson or Merrimack, New Hampshire, and an active Top Secret clearance.

Leads and manages a software engineering team supporting mission-critical C4ISR space systems. Responsibilities include supervision, mentoring, career development, performance management, recruiting, technical leadership, architecture reviews, software design and sustainment oversight, bid and proposal support, and collaboration with functional managers and discipline leads. The role is performed onsite in Hudson or Merrimack, New Hampshire, and requires an active Top Secret clearance.

Leads and manages a software engineering team focused on growth initiatives including member acquisition, retention, revenue generation, experimentation, referrals, and global expansion. Defines technical strategy and architecture, collaborates with product, design, finance, and marketing, and ensures strong development, testing, and deployment practices. Provides mentorship, performance feedback, and coaching while fostering innovation, psychological safety, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Leads and manages a software engineering team of up to 12 engineers developing core physiology services. Responsibilities include technical strategy, architecture, feature delivery, software development standards, testing, deployment, operational excellence, continuous improvement, mentorship, hiring, performance management, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. The role requires strong backend production experience, familiarity with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure such as AWS, and a commitment to reliable, high-quality software in a collaborative startup environment.

Lead the Health Records engineering team, defining technical strategy and architecture for secure, scalable systems that ingest, process, govern, and expose clinical health data. Manage hiring, coaching, performance, and succession planning while partnering with Product, Design, Data Science, Security, and Platform Engineering. Drive cross-functional execution, operational excellence, privacy, regulatory compliance, and reliable healthcare platform delivery.

Lead and mentor a backend and full-stack engineering team responsible for Snap’s large-scale data processing pipelines and big data infrastructure. Set strategy, roadmap, and measurable goals; guide technical direction; build high-availability distributed systems; evaluate architectural tradeoffs; collaborate with Product, Data Science, Operations, Engineering, and executives; and hire and retain high-performing engineers.

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.

Leads and grows a full-stack engineering team building GM’s commercial eCommerce platform. Owns the technical roadmap, architecture, system design, code reviews, incident resolution, and end-to-end software delivery across catalog, billing, payments, and monetization services. Partners with Product, Design, Business, and Sales stakeholders while ensuring fault tolerance, financial data integrity, compliance, operational excellence, and production reliability.

Leads multiple software engineering teams building enterprise-scale reference data platforms. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, governing AI-assisted development, designing Java and Spring Boot microservices, developing event-driven data products, optimizing AWS-based pipelines, ensuring security and reliability, reviewing code, managing technical debt, supporting production incidents, and driving end-to-end delivery across distributed systems and data mesh architectures.

Lead and develop the Money Movement engineering team responsible for reliable, compliant payment execution across ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, international, and stablecoin rails. Manage hiring, coaching, technical execution, on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-one systems. Drive migration from the monolith to a standalone Payments Service with clean API contracts, collaborate with product and operational stakeholders, and contribute hands-on through code reviews and programming when needed.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Manages a software engineering team responsible for high-scale ad-serving systems. Provides technical direction, supports architecture and engineering practices, collaborates with product management, drives infrastructure improvements, reviews work quality, and develops team performance. The role requires distributed application development experience, cloud deployment knowledge, strong SQL skills, monitoring tools expertise, and proficiency in C++, Java, Go, or Rust. This position is onsite four days per week in Englewood, Colorado.

Leads software engineering teams by managing talent, guiding architecture and application modernization, ensuring security, stability, scalability, and regulatory compliance. Partners with product managers, architects, scrum masters, vendors, and technology providers to deliver data and software capabilities. Oversees Agile and DevOps practices, technical roadblocks, code reviews, risk management, resource allocation, hiring, mentoring, and performance management.

Leads full-stack and data engineering teams delivering cloud-based healthcare analytics solutions and enterprise web applications. Establishes technical roadmaps, architectures, release plans, and AI-enabled development workflows. Oversees data engineering, testing, cloud deployment, CI/CD, governance, security, and compliance. Provides technical mentorship, supports hiring and skills development, and partners with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, ethically designed software products.