Top Entry Level Engineering Manager Jobs

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

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.

Leads and develops engineering teams in a player/coach role, balancing technical leadership, execution, and people management. Responsibilities include improving team productivity and reliability, shaping technical roadmaps with product and design partners, setting objectives, representing the team in engineering initiatives, and leading hiring, development, and retention. The role requires system design expertise, proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, experience delivering complex web applications and services, and adaptability across technical systems.

Lead and grow a five-person Platform & Data engineering team, partnering with a systems architect to set technical direction, own the roadmap, prioritize initiatives, and deliver shared services, data workflows, internal tooling, and AI infrastructure. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, stakeholder alignment, delivery oversight, and raising engineering standards across testing, observability, incident response, and AI-assisted development.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads software engineering teams developing scalable full-stack applications using Java microservices and React or Angular. Provides architectural direction, manages delivery across concurrent initiatives, mentors engineers, establishes testing and engineering standards, and drives reliability, performance, automation, observability, and continuous improvement. Partners with product, infrastructure, security, quality, and business stakeholders on roadmaps and technical decisions. Requires extensive expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, databases, CI/CD, containers, and enterprise application development.

Leads engineering for Buffer’s Growth area across acquisition, activation, and retention. Coaches engineers, shapes priorities with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, guides technical decisions, connects customer insights to measurement, supports AI-enabled development, and contributes to hiring and engineering practices. The role requires strong technical judgment, product-growth understanding, clear communication, and experience helping engineers develop in a distributed environment.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

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 develops a distributed software engineering team while providing technical leadership for architecture, design, and delivery of scalable platform capabilities. Responsibilities include Java and Spring Boot backend development, RESTful APIs, microservices, code and design reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, system reliability, stakeholder collaboration, and people management. The role also evaluates technologies, guides technical initiatives, and supports modern web, data engineering, Kubernetes, and generative AI capabilities.

Leads a US-based software engineering team building reusable data foundations and AI platform capabilities. Partners with product management on priorities and outcomes, manages and develops engineers, owns architecture and technical direction, contributes hands-on to critical designs and code, and oversees execution, reliability, testing, releases, cost, and production services. Requires strong data modeling, governance, cloud platform experience, product judgment, and cross-functional influence.

Leads an engineering team building Datadog’s Reference Tables platform, including its UI, MCP, APIs, control plane, metadata, permissions, validation, quotas, and lifecycle services. Defines technical direction and roadmap with product and engineering leaders, drives reliable large-scale distributed systems, establishes engineering practices, mentors engineers, and supports mission-critical infrastructure with 24x7 on-call operations.

Leads a hands-on engineering team developing AI-powered product features. Sets technical strategy, reviews system designs, contributes code, manages and develops engineers, maintains quality standards, and recruits engineering talent. The role requires strong TypeScript, front-end, database, and recent AI software development experience, along with management experience in a rapidly growing company.

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.

Leads software engineering teams, coaches engineers, partners with product and design, guides technical direction, and promotes reliable, customer-focused software delivery. The manager is expected to use AI development tools extensively, help teams adopt effective AI workflows, maintain quality, and challenge inefficient engineering processes. The role is fully remote and requires strong communication, systems thinking, hands-on technical credibility, and experience managing full-stack web application teams.

Leads a software engineering team developing customer-facing custom applications, internal manufacturing software, and developer support tools. Responsibilities include project requirements and resource planning, customer installation support, defect resolution, feature development, engineering mentorship, software design, code reviews, architectural oversight, and collaboration with desktop, mobile, firmware, manufacturing, and testing teams.

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 software engineering teams building AI-driven, multi-cloud storage and data services. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, directing distributed-systems architecture, managing technical roadmaps and agile delivery, addressing technical debt, translating product requirements into engineering priorities, and communicating technical strategy and project health to executives.

Leads a software engineering team developing AI-driven, multi-cloud storage and data services. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, guiding technical architecture, overseeing high-availability and cloud mobility systems, managing roadmaps and agile delivery, addressing technical debt, partnering with Product and Architecture, and translating customer needs into technical priorities. The role also communicates project health and technical trade-offs to executives while promoting engineering quality, stability, security, and scalable software development practices.

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 software engineering team responsible for client asset reporting and Sales Technology platforms. Oversees architecture, development, modernization, reliability, security, operational support, and delivery of business-critical applications. Hires, coaches, and develops engineers; establishes technical direction; prioritizes work using data and metrics; manages engineering risks; and communicates priorities, performance, and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders. The role requires hands-on C#/.NET, SQL Server, and Snowflake experience, with AI-assisted engineering knowledge preferred.

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 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.