Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs

Leads a software engineering team responsible for Tulip’s no-code application authoring, runtime, governance, backend services, and agentic AI integrations. The role owns delivery, technical direction, architecture, operational health, testing, deployment, incident response, and technical debt reduction. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, developing engineers, establishing engineering standards, promoting AI-first development, and collaborating with product, design, infrastructure, operations, QA, and customer teams.

Leads software engineering teams and development projects, oversees application programming, installation, maintenance, and support, and ensures adherence to quality standards. The manager provides technical oversight, analyzes applications against business requirements, develops staff capabilities, and communicates with technology and business stakeholders. The role requires people leadership, project management, software development expertise, system design knowledge, and experience with Agile, cloud computing, quality assurance, and testing.

Leads the Flight Simulation Labs software team supporting F/A-18 modeling and simulation capabilities. Responsibilities include managing engineers, setting technical and departmental strategies, overseeing technical approaches and processes, acquiring resources, managing suppliers, improving processes, and developing stakeholder relationships. The role also serves as a business owner on an Agile Release Train and requires leadership experience, software engineering expertise, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering data engineering, business intelligence, and finance-focused analytics solutions. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, modernizing data pipelines, guiding PySpark architecture, improving operational reliability, establishing engineering standards, developing talent, and partnering with stakeholders on roadmaps. The role also scales responsible AI-assisted engineering practices with governance, security, quality controls, measurable outcomes, and reuse of enterprise technology assets.

Lead a globally distributed engineering team building and modernizing Legal Technology data platforms, applications, pipelines, and integrations. Manage delivery, technical design, data governance, security, reliability, production support, and modernization across legal operations. Partner with architecture, product, security, and legal stakeholders while coaching engineers, improving operational excellence, and identifying AI, machine learning, and automation opportunities.

Leads and manages software engineering teams supporting defense and mission-critical systems. Responsibilities include technical mentoring, architecture and design reviews, software implementation and sustainment, testing and validation, staffing, hiring, project leadership, proposal development, and strategic technology planning. The role shapes software engineering culture and processes while ensuring technical and staffing needs are met.

Leads the AV Data Processing and Services team, combining hands-on software engineering with people management. Owns architecture and roadmap for petabyte-scale distributed data pipelines, storage, batch inference, streaming, simulation, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, and cost optimization. Recruits and mentors engineers, establishes SLAs, manages incidents, and translates cross-functional requirements into dependable technical deliverables.

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 a 15+ person embedded software engineering team supporting complex avionics systems. Responsibilities include people management, technical and project leadership, development planning, process compliance, third-party engineering coordination, resource forecasting, hiring, performance management, customer engagement, and software lifecycle oversight from business development through product end of life.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building knowledge graph infrastructure, APIs, workflows, and distributed systems. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, translating product priorities into plans, managing delivery, guiding architecture and quality, coordinating incident response, recruiting engineers, and improving team processes. The manager also promotes responsible use of AI-assisted development tools while ensuring generated code meets security, privacy, maintainability, and engineering standards.

Leads and develops a software engineering team delivering mission-critical communications, A-PNT, and secure mesh networking solutions. Responsibilities include people management, resource planning, software architecture, Agile process improvement, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, quality assurance, technical risk management, and delivery oversight. The manager coaches engineers, establishes scalable engineering practices, guides architectural decisions, and evaluates AI-enabled development tools while partnering with leadership on staffing and organizational growth.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building API, microservices, event-driven, and platform capabilities for KeepStock’s cloud transformation. Partners with product, UX, machine learning, architecture, security, and SRE teams to translate roadmaps into delivery plans. Oversees software development, testing, deployment, production support, quality, security, scalability, reliability, and performance. Establishes Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement practices while coaching talent and managing team performance.

Lead a hands-on engineering team building and shipping features for a modern trucking transportation management system. Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, contribute to Ruby on Rails and React development, mentor engineers, maintain engineering quality, understand customer workflows, and deliver improvements quickly in a fully remote environment.

Lead a full‑stack engineering team to build scalable frontend and backend systems, make architectural decisions, prioritize the product roadmap with stakeholders, build data pipelines for ML, support deployments and DevOps, and manage external engineers to deliver product objectives.

Lead a small engineering team to build full-stack web applications for medical researchers. Make architectural decisions, prioritize roadmap with product and customers, implement scalable front-end and back-end code, maintain deployments, build data pipelines for ML, and provide technical guidance and support.

Manages software engineering teams responsible for internal systems and value-stream software delivery. Oversees people development, hiring, performance, team capacity, Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, release readiness, and delivery schedules. Partners with Product Management to balance functional and non-functional priorities, leads continuous improvement and software culture initiatives, and manages engineering budgets. The role is onsite in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, with 1–3 domestic or international trips annually.

Leads a software engineering team developing and testing data collection solutions for next-generation electronic warfare systems. Responsibilities include setting development strategies, managing budgets and timelines, integrating software with hardware, ensuring compliance and documentation, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong software engineering, test automation, technical communication, and leadership experience, along with an active DoD Secret clearance.

Manage a software engineering team building the Ovation Risk Platform. Lead architecture, design, development, performance management, and cross-functional delivery. Design fault-tolerant Kafka and Flink event-streaming systems, integrate AI and machine learning, optimize PostgreSQL databases, and provide technical product ownership. Apply expertise in options exchange operations, trade lifecycles, and clearing workflows while developing target-state architectures and complex enterprise solutions.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Leads 4–5 software engineers and owns research and development for NEO agent runtime and BRIE data platforms. Sets technical direction, prioritizes platform work, evaluates emerging technologies through proofs of concept, and drives secure AI-assisted engineering practices. Oversees hiring, coaching, architecture, code quality, SDLC automation, resiliency, security, vendor evaluations, stakeholder collaboration, budgets, and operational outcomes while remaining involved in critical technical decisions.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within a banking card technology organization. Responsibilities include guiding engineers, overseeing delivery activities, designing delivery control-plane architectures, driving responsible AI-assisted engineering adoption, reviewing human- and AI-generated code, building prototypes, managing stakeholders, and ensuring compliance, security, resiliency, and business alignment.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building platforms that integrate with embedded and hardware systems. Define technical strategy, architecture, and design; translate cross-functional requirements into scalable solutions; maintain development, testing, and deployment best practices; contribute technically as a player-coach; and foster innovation, collaboration, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Leads and mentors a team building software platforms that integrate with embedded and hardware systems. Defines technical strategy, architecture, and best practices; partners with cross-functional stakeholders; contributes hands-on technically; manages delivery, testing, deployment, team growth, and a culture of innovation and psychological safety.

Leads the Audience Manager engineering team, providing technical direction, people leadership, budget oversight, and career development. Designs and develops Go, gRPC, microservices, cloud, data analytics, and CI/CD solutions for TV advertising platforms. Oversees architecture, integrations, testing, releases, documentation, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization. Partners across engineering, product, privacy, marketing, and business teams to align priorities, deliver software within budget, and guide technical decisions.

Leads the Buyercloud Ad Serving software engineering team, managing engineers, guiding architecture and development practices, and delivering features with Product Management. Drives infrastructure improvements, quality standards, performance management, technical support, training, and adherence to deadlines and budgets. The role requires collaboration across remote teams and time zones, independent judgment, and occasional nights or weekends.