Top Entry Level Engineering Manager Jobs

Leads and grows an engineering team while contributing production code, partnering with product and design, and delivering customer-focused software. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, planning, incident response, on-call operations, cost management, engineering metrics, and building AI-native systems using LLMs, agents, evaluations, and retrieval. The manager owns team commitments, system reliability, security, technical quality, and customer value.

Lead engineering direction and execution for Ro’s patient experience platform. Manage and develop engineers, guide full-stack architecture, shape AI-enabled healthcare experiences, translate complex workflows into intuitive products, resolve ambiguity, align cross-functional stakeholders, and drive initiatives across teams. Partner with Product, Design, and Data while using technical judgment, patient feedback, and product metrics to deliver reliable, trusted experiences for millions of patients.

Leads and grows the Dashboard engineering team responsible for Vercel’s customer-facing developer platform. Partners with Product, Design, Data, and engineering teams to set priorities, guide frontend architecture, improve performance and reliability, contribute code, manage incidents, and balance product delivery with long-term scalability. Builds a high-performing, inclusive team while ensuring an intuitive, high-quality developer experience.

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.

Lead a software engineering team building Claude APIs, agent infrastructure, SDKs, documentation, and developer tools. Own planning, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, coaching, and performance management. Partner with Product and customers to shape the roadmap, guide distributed-systems architecture and API design, and collaborate with Research, Safeguards, Security, and go-to-market teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities safely.

Leads a team of 5–10 software engineers developing scalable, low-latency payment authorization systems. Provides architectural direction, remains hands-on with design and code reviews, and drives performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, and delivery practices. Partners with product and business stakeholders on technology roadmaps, mentors engineers, manages priorities across global teams, and modernizes distributed platforms using C/C++ and related technologies.

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 a small engineering team while remaining hands-on in designing and developing marketing technology and lead-generation systems. Own lead ingestion, routing, enrichment, attribution, ad platform integrations, conversion tracking, and data consistency across CRM, CDP, and advertising platforms. Build scalable event-driven AWS systems, improve reliability and monitoring, and optimize signal quality, acquisition performance, and cost per lead while partnering closely with growth marketing teams.

Lead a product-focused engineering team building WorkOS Dashboard features for onboarding, growth, billing, monetization, and AI assistance. Responsibilities include technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, product decision-making, customer discovery, roadmap development, hiring, mentoring, and team growth. The role partners closely with product, design, finance, go-to-market, recruiting, and engineering teams while balancing rapid delivery with reliability, billing correctness, and AI quality.

Leads Engineering Leads across multiple teams, owning people development, delivery confidence, technical quality, and predictable execution. Partners with Product, Architecture, and Professional Services on planning and trade-offs. Implements agentic AI engineering practices using Cursor and Flow Next, including prompts, evaluations, quality gates, observability, and auditability. Uses engineering metrics to improve quality, speed, predictability, team health, and business outcomes.

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 the engineering team building Rosalind Workbench, a scientific software platform for life sciences research. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, delivering reliable product releases, shaping architecture across agent orchestration and compute infrastructure, improving observability and production quality, coordinating with research and customer-facing teams, supporting enterprise deployments, and implementing security, privacy, auditability, and reproducibility throughout scientific workflows.

Leads the Database Monitoring engineering organization, owning product strategy, roadmap, AI feature development, market expansion, customer adoption, and commercial outcomes. Builds and scales engineering teams across geographies by hiring, mentoring, coaching, and structuring engineering managers and staff engineers. Partners with Product and customers to refine experiences, achieve product-market fit, and deliver measurable value. Requires experience deploying applications on PostgreSQL.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Lead the engineering team building Arcnine, Tradeify’s real-time trading platform from development through launch. Hire and develop engineers, guide architecture, partner with Product and Design, remain hands-on with code, establish quality and delivery practices, and own reliability, observability, and incident response. The role also contributes to company-wide engineering standards and communicates progress, risks, and needs to founders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Lead an engineering Scrum team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and delivering mission-critical airline customer management software. Manage team development, recruitment, performance, delivery scope, quality, timelines, costs, customer relationships, production issues, technical debt, security, automation, and continuous improvement. Collaborate with product owners, customer stakeholders, competency centers, and other engineering managers while supporting Agile practices and large-scale 24x7 system operations.

Manages software engineering teams and cross-functional technical work, including goal setting, project planning, system design, vendor management, risk and compliance, audit requirements, reporting, application stability, budgeting, and staff development. Advises on system enhancements, coordinates with business partners and vendors, supports automation initiatives, and ensures timely delivery of technically complex projects and services.

Lead a five-engineer Coordination Systems Storage team responsible for distributed configuration storage and distribution systems. Manage prioritization, delegation, ceremonies, incidents, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives. Remain hands-on through feature development, remediation, investigations, performance optimization, and profiling. Collaborate with internal platform stakeholders while improving reliability through gamedays, operational reviews, validation, and proactive incident prevention.

Lead a computational geometry software team developing CAD/CAM and 3D geometry tools for automated composite manufacturing and tooling workflows. Partner with manufacturing and mechanical engineers, guide architecture and technical priorities, translate production challenges into software requirements, mentor and recruit engineers, and contribute to code and design decisions. The role combines software engineering leadership with manufacturing, mechanical engineering, geometric modeling, and advanced automation.

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 develops a team of 7+ engineers while owning technical direction, roadmap, execution, architecture, design reviews, production incidents, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality. Partners with Product, Research, and other teams to align priorities and deliver complex technical projects. Requires strong people leadership, technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and cross-functional decision-making. Experience scaling teams and backgrounds in machine learning, AI infrastructure, or generative models are preferred.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team while overseeing software product delivery, project planning, hiring, and cross-functional collaboration. Drive cloud infrastructure best practices, infrastructure as code, automation, CI/CD, security compliance, and optimization of cloud performance, capacity, and costs. Align engineering objectives with business goals and foster innovation, continuous learning, and an inclusive, high-performing team culture.