Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for the Akamai Compute integration layer. Define strategy and roadmap for customer-facing APIs and backend orchestration, drive architecture shifts to container orchestration and modular designs, improve SDLC, reliability, observability, and security, and partner with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platform services.

Lead engineering team for solar and storage projects, oversee design execution, manage technical evaluations, and provide construction support.

Lead and grow a team of 6–12 software engineers, drive project execution from planning to delivery, maintain technical standards and architecture, collaborate with Product and Design, conduct performance management and career development, recruit and retain talent, and improve engineering processes and team culture.

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 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.

The Engineering Manager will lead teams in developing and managing Blackbaud's Data & AI platform, focusing on scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

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 mentor engineering teams in developing a SaaS solution for dental practice management, focusing on system architecture, code quality, and integrating AI tools.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop and maintain software solutions, collaborate with various teams, and implement CI/CD practices. They will also mentor engineers and influence organizational technology strategies.

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 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 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 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.

Lead a globally distributed QA team to define QA strategy, governance, and audit-ready processes for regulated banking clients. Drive test automation, CI/release gating, regression coverage, incident response, and partner with Professional Services for UAT and integration validation while reporting quality KPIs.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead and mentor a team building Twilio's next-generation low-latency, high-throughput media processing stack. Drive architecture and technical decisions, balance reliability with feature delivery, own performance and reliability targets, collaborate across product and platform teams, reduce technical debt, and establish engineering excellence in testing, code quality, and operations for global real-time media services.

Lead and hands-on manage the Catalog engineering team, own sprint delivery and architecture, write and ship full‑stack production code using AI-assisted tooling, hire and grow engineers, and drive collaboration with product and design while shaping an AI-driven SDLC.

Lead a small engineering team as a hands-on technical manager to design, develop, and deploy core product features. Hire, scale, and mentor engineers while ensuring high quality, security, and best practices. Collaborate with Product, Data, and Clinical partners and drive execution for a new health plans and systems vertical and Bend Health platform work.