Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Nashville, TN

Leads and mentors a cross-functional software engineering team, managing career development, performance, and resource allocation. Owns delivery of operating system features, including timelines, risks, and dependencies. Serves as a technical liaison for customers and stakeholders, translating operational capabilities into software requirements. Interprets aerospace and safety-critical standards into actionable engineering work while ensuring compliant, secure delivery.

Leads and develops software engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and design to deliver secure, scalable, reliable features; guides architecture and engineering best practices; improves processes, velocity, and execution; and translates customer and business needs into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on leadership in a high-growth startup environment and ownership of engineering culture, performance, reliability, and talent development.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead the Engineering Enablement team owning CI/CD, testing, dependency management, developer tooling and AI-partnered development. Define productivity metrics, drive cross-org change, grow engineers, and run internal platform as a product to improve developer feedback loops and observability.

Lead a cross-functional backend and iOS engineering squad to grow paid subscribers by building and maintaining app store and Stripe integrations, prioritize platform stability, drive growth experiments, manage delivery and tech debt, and coach engineers through close partnership with Product and Design.

Leads the FastAuth software engineering team, owning technical direction, delivery across multiple workstreams, team health, hiring, performance management, and career development. Partners with architects and cross-functional stakeholders on TypeScript, React, .NET, Azure, and event-driven architecture. Drives scaled agile planning, delivery metrics, AI tooling adoption, organizational health, and resolution of cross-team priorities while supporting continuous software delivery.

Leads a small full-stack engineering team maintaining and enhancing a secure, scalable e-signature SaaS platform. Responsibilities include technical direction, mentoring, .NET and Angular development, Azure operations, reliability and performance improvement, incident response, deployment coordination, security and compliance, code reviews, technical debt reduction, and stakeholder collaboration. The role remains hands-on while overseeing platform stability, auditability, observability, and continuous product improvement.

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Leads IT engineering strategy, teams, and delivery across infrastructure, cloud, networking, compliance, and client implementations. Oversees enterprise and hybrid-cloud solutions, automation, monitoring, DevOps, security compliance, and continuous improvement. Partners with executives, service delivery, sales, account management, and clients on roadmaps, technical solutions, proposals, and business outcomes. Ensures projects meet scope, budget, quality, security, and client requirements while driving scalable MSP services.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead and manage software engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud-native applications. Own SDLC, architecture, production stability, incident resolution, cross-functional alignment, technology strategy (including AI/ML), hiring, mentorship, and engineering excellence.

Hands-on technical manager who leads a small development and data engineering team to design, build, and deliver software, data pipelines, integrations, and BI solutions. Oversees CRM/platform development, API integrations, data warehousing, reporting, release management, and compliance/data governance while contributing to architecture and coding.

Lead and grow a payments engineering team responsible for payment platforms, integrations, tokenization, fraud signals, and reconciliation. Own delivery, production stability, on-call, PCI DSS compliance, vendor relationships, budget, and cross-functional coordination. Drive reliability, incident response, roadmap execution, and measurable improvements in transaction success, latency, and error budgets.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Lead and set technical direction for a cross-functional engineering group owning billing, accounting, membership eligibility, and enrollment systems. Hire, mentor, and scale engineering managers and engineers; define roadmaps, drive cross-functional alignment, and balance technical investments with rapid product delivery while improving systems, architecture, and engineering processes.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

Lead North America execution of AI-first SDLC transformation and quality platforms for a multi-tenant SaaS identity product. Define system validation and quality platform strategy, enable agentic quality workflows, drive shift-left developer-owned testing, own CI/CD quality gates and telemetry, improve production readiness and release confidence, and hire and coach senior technical contributors while partnering across Dev, SRE, DevTools, Product, and AI teams.

Lead and grow an engineering team building airgapped, UDS-compatible, cloud-native software. Own delivery of scalable, secure products, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and coordinate with Product, Growth, and Delivery to meet customer and roadmap objectives.

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead multi-site capital planning and execution for food manufacturing facilities, develop a 5-year capital plan, manage project KPIs (safety, CQV, budget, schedule), partner on procurement and business cases, mentor engineering staff, and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to deliver capital projects across the U.S. and Canada (≈50% travel).

Lead and manage a team developing the Aerospike Cloud Platform, focusing on architecture, execution, and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.

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 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 and grow a systems engineering team owning identity, device, and ITSM platforms. Deliver joiner/mover/leaver automation in Okta Workflows, device assurance for macOS/Windows, rationalize ITSM, govern SaaS procurement and the AI tooling stack, and partner with Security, GRC, Finance, and Engineering to enable safe self-service.