Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead and mentor a distributed team of 13 engineers across AI/ML, cloud backend, frontend, and DevOps. Own delivery cadence, remove blockers, plan milestones, manage performance, and foster career development. Champion CI/CD, cloud automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering excellence. Partner with German and US leadership on operations, architecture, organizational alignment, and scalable processes across time zones.

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering AI-powered data connectivity solutions. Owns execution, delivery, technical direction, operational reliability, and cross-team coordination. Develops engineering talent through coaching, hiring, and performance management while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on priorities and organizational planning. Guides architecture, cloud-native development, incident response, SLOs, and AI-assisted software development practices. Requires strong Java/Kotlin expertise, cloud architecture experience, and technical judgment across distributed systems.

Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable infrastructure.

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.

Lead the Content Foundations engineering team and evolve Scribd’s high-scale document ingestion platform into a real-time, AI-native system. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, integrating AI and ML capabilities, overseeing distributed data infrastructure, ensuring security and operational reliability, managing the roadmap, hiring and developing backend and AI data engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders across the organization.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Leads global test engineering for battery energy storage products, overseeing hardware, software, component, and system validation. Develops test strategies, automation, HIL and digital twin capabilities, lab infrastructure, KPIs, and continuous-improvement processes. Manages international teams, budgets, schedules, and resources while partnering with R&D, product management, manufacturing, customer support, and technical leadership to ensure product performance, reliability, safety, and environmental durability.

Leads and develops a software engineering team through coaching, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and engineering leadership on priorities, execution, architecture, and technical strategy. Reviews system designs, evaluates tradeoffs, supports code reviews, and drives improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, testing, and engineering processes. Works remotely with cross-functional leaders to deliver and maintain veterinary software products.

Lead the Data Platform team in building reliable, scalable infrastructure and developer tooling for data engineering, analytics, and data science. Define the technical roadmap with engineering leadership, guide architecture and best practices, contribute hands-on through design reviews and coding, and partner cross-functionally to shape platform capabilities. Hire, coach, and develop engineers while managing stakeholder communication and delivery of self-service, observable, and governed data systems.

Lead delivery and technical execution for an AI-driven pipeline integrity platform spanning data architecture, engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and quality oversight. Manage compliance, security, audit readiness, release planning, hiring, team development, and cross-functional collaboration. Ensure platform outputs are traceable, reproducible, secure, and delivered predictably against phased milestones.

Leads digital engineering execution, architecture, technical strategy, and customer-facing problem solving. Manages and mentors Forward Deployed Engineers, oversees concurrent initiatives, reviews designs and implementations, translates customer needs into technical plans, and establishes reusable standards and processes. The role combines hands-on engineering leadership with people management across MBSE, CAD/PLM, requirements, simulation, software integrations, and digital thread capabilities.

Manage and develop an Applications Engineering team to support product strategy, customer technical interfaces, design documentation control, new product development, validation, and integration with manufacturing and ERP systems. Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and technical due diligence for acquisitions while collaborating with commercial, operations, and global cross-functional teams.

Leads a 20-plus-person distributed Review Engineering organization across three agile squads. Owns technical direction, production reliability, incident response, system scalability, delivery metrics, hiring, performance management, and engineering career growth. Partners with Product, Design, Security, Clinical Operations, and peer engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-quality systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Leads the Tooling engineering team responsible for developer experience, CI/CD, deployment automation, release workflows, observability, internal developer platforms, and AI-assisted engineering tools. Partners with Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering leaders to improve reliability, engineering productivity, software delivery performance, and developer satisfaction. Sets technical direction, manages roadmaps, coaches engineers, and drives cross-functional platform initiatives.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Leads a cathodic protection engineering team, providing technical guidance, resource planning, quality oversight, staff development, customer support, and project coordination. Reviews surveys, designs, proposals, and deliverables; manages subcontractor assignments, budgets, and forecasts; supports operations and business development; ensures safety compliance; and provides technical oversight during project site visits.

Lead a firmware engineering team to design, develop, debug, and deliver firmware for HPE server platforms. Provide technical leadership across architecture, system bring-up, integration, validation, and root-cause analysis. Manage people, drive execution across multiple programs, mitigate risks, and coordinate with hardware, silicon vendors, manufacturing, OS, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Manage a team of Process and Process Control Engineers to improve chemical plant yield, throughput, reliability, energy efficiency, sustainability, and safety. Lead FEL, commissioning, and startup activities, ensure capital project alignment, support PSM compliance (hazard reviews, LOPA, IPL, MOC, PSSR), oversee equipment specifications and process modeling (Aspen), mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while meeting environmental, health, and quality requirements.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.