Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead one or more Agile engineering squads to deliver scalable, high-quality microservices and platform capabilities. Translate product requirements into technical solutions, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and test automation, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure predictable, production-ready deliveries.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Manage and mentor multiple small engineering pods building and operating the control plane. Provide technical leadership, drive cross-functional product outcomes, hire and grow engineers, oversee on-call and incident response, and ensure high-availability production services while fostering an inclusive, remote-friendly engineering culture.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

Lead and grow the Database Reliability team to ensure highly available, scalable databases. Mentor engineers, shape incident response and capacity planning, collaborate with infrastructure/product/security, drive best practices for Postgres and CockroachDB, hire and scale the team, and own monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning across environments.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead engineering execution and people management for an open-source enterprise AI product transitioning from R&D incubation to production. Manage a senior engineering team, contribute code, review technical work, improve planning and release practices, and ensure quality, reliability, security, privacy, and maintainability. Partner with product and technical leaders on AI-enabled, multi-platform, customer-controlled architectures, while supporting hiring and scaling the team for enterprise adoption.

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 and mentor a backend engineering team building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads systems. Drive delivery of partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability, and product integrations while partnering with Product, Data, Privacy, and other stakeholders. Hire, onboard, and create a healthy team culture focused on maintainable, secure, and privacy-aligned software.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, and product integrations. Partner with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering to navigate ambiguous privacy and policy constraints, ensure reliability and quality, hire and onboard engineers, and maintain sustainable delivery practices in a distributed environment.

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.

Lead and grow distributed database-internals engineering teams owning TimescaleDB. Set technical roadmaps, prioritize work with Product, collaborate with Platform, handle customer escalations, mentor engineers, and drive delivery of reliable, high-performance database systems.

Lead and grow a full‑stack team building the Console, Tiger CLI, and MCP integrations. Own customer-facing domains (UI, billing, observability), set technical direction for a JavaScript/Go stack, hire and mentor engineers, establish engineering practices, and partner with Product and Design to deliver polished features. Be hands-on and drive organizational change during growth.

Lead and grow a platform and infrastructure engineering team (Infrastructure/SQL reliability, Developer Experience, or Tooling). Hire, mentor, and manage delivery of quarterly roadmaps; remain technically engaged in design and code reviews; partner with product, SRE, and security to drive reliability, observability, CI/CD, and platform strategy. Own toolchain, reliability goals, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead software engineering teams as a hands-on technical manager owning architecture, projects, and delivery. Build full-stack applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js, .NET Core, SQL Server, Elastic, and AWS. Coordinate across departments, partner with product and sales leaders, apply quality management and continuous delivery practices, act as player-coach, and serve as voice of the customer for product readiness.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team building Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure. Define architecture, drive design reviews, ensure security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations at scale. Guide implementation, incident response, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers and aligning stakeholders across Azure product teams.