Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Madison, WI

The Engineering Manager will lead teams building a scalable device passport platform, mentor engineers, manage backlog, and contribute coding while ensuring quality and documentation standards.

Lead a backend engineering team as a player-coach building payment processing, fraud detection, compliance, and user management systems. Architect distributed microservices, drive technical decisions, write code, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team integrations, and ensure reliable, regulatory-compliant, high-scale financial infrastructure.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a cross-functional software engineering team, manage projects, guide technical strategy, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead and grow a Salesforce engineering team to deliver scalable Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions across GTM and CS&O. Define technical strategy, improve platform architecture, CI/CD, testing, and observability, integrate AI agents like Agentforce, and partner with product and stakeholders to prioritize delivery and operational support.

Lead and coach multiple consultant teams to deliver enterprise-scale capstone projects. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, manage priorities, plan and execute product delivery, define architecture and non-functional requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, maintain delivery pipelines, and drive continuous improvement in engineering and recruiting practices.

Lead and grow a Cloud Platform engineering team that builds and operates the backend for a global fleet of robots. Own roadmap, reliability, on-call/incident response, cloud cost, architecture, hiring, and delivery while contributing hands-on to development and partnering cross-functionally to scale the platform.

Lead and own hardware engineering: define strategy and roadmaps, manage full hardware lifecycle (IoT, CV, POS, KDS), drive R&D and edge compute platforms, manage procurement/OEM/vendor relations, ensure QA, regulatory compliance, hardware security, and cross-functional alignment.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Reporting team, driving technical and product strategy, managing engineers, and collaborating across functions to enhance Vanta's reporting capabilities and product innovations.

Lead and grow a Core UI team owning the design system, shared component libraries, frontend architecture, and engineering-UX partnership. Drive standards for accessibility, performance, testing, and documentation; set roadmap and delivery priorities; mentor engineers; and collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to improve UI consistency and velocity.

Lead two engineering groups building shared foundational services (identity, subscription). Drive technical strategy, architecture, observability, CI/CD, and DORA metrics. Manage people, hiring, cross-team collaboration, product partnerships, and mentor engineers while occasionally prototyping and contributing to code and technical planning.

Lead and grow a team owning source control, artifact management, and CI infrastructure. Drive strategy and build the next-generation CI platform on GitHub Cloud and Actions, coordinate large-scale migrations, build vendor extensions, and partner with internal engineering teams to ensure reliability, efficiency, and scale.

Lead and grow a software engineering team that builds network observability tooling, improves DNS control plane, and develops host network interface software. Hire and mentor engineers, drive cross-functional partnerships, guide distributed systems design at scale, and prioritize agility, reliability, and efficiency.

Lead two teams (Consent Data & Privacy and User Data Management) as a manager-of-managers, owning execution and multi-year technical vision for user consent, data collection, storage, pipelines, access, retention, and compliance. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Legal to enforce consent and data governance at scale, adapt to evolving regulations, and drive architecture and platform solutions.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building high-scale, low-latency consumer authorization platforms. Provide technical vision, partner with product, security, and data teams, balance short-term needs with long-term strategy, and hire, mentor, and retain diverse engineering talent.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Lead the Customer & Application team, manage engineers, coordinate development efforts, drive Agile processes, and mentor team members for continuous improvement.

Lead remote K‑12 engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver high-availability cloud-native education platforms. Combine people management, Agile delivery, and hands-on technical leadership to modernize legacy systems, implement CI/CD and IaC, integrate emerging GenAI capabilities, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and product performance.

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design, ship, and support web-based features. Balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and system improvements; perform hands-on code review and triage; collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support; hire, coach, and mentor engineers; and establish processes for iterative, high-quality delivery that meet customer needs and SLAs.

Lead and grow two Merchants engineering teams (Core and Growth). Own technical direction, architecture (billing, checkout, delivery promise), hiring, roadmap, sprint health, and cross-functional partnerships to deliver reliable merchant-facing product features.

Lead and mentor a team of full‑stack/backend engineers building integrations, identity verification, SSO, account opening, funding/ACH pipelines, and a public API platform. Drive architecture and delivery, champion quality and reliability, partner with Product and Implementation on roadmap and escalations, and remain hands‑on to guide technical decisions and ship production software.

Lead and coach Quality Engineers and SDETs across product teams to implement risk-based exploratory testing and automation, align quality activities with delivery goals, partner on automation architecture and observability, manage workflows and incident response, report on risk and coverage, and mentor technical and strategic skills while promoting responsible AI-assisted testing practices.

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver backend services, platform components, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, testing, and operational readiness. Drive engineering standards, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement with emphasis on security, reliability, and scalable platform patterns.

Lead a ~10-engineer team to build and modernize cloud-native SaaS for marinas. Stay hands-on with Node.js/React/TypeScript code, drive architecture and migrations, enforce testing/observability/CI-CD, run incident response, recruit and coach engineers, and implement AI-assisted development practices aligned to product goals.