Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying computer vision and AI models on edge devices. Provide hands-on technical leadership for embedded systems, low-latency processing, and resource-constrained hardware. Partner with Product, Hardware, and Full-stack teams to deliver products from concept through mass production, shape technical roadmaps, and hire and develop engineering talent.

Leads engineering for thermowells, flushing rings, valves, and fabricated products. Oversees product design, standards compliance, manufacturing integration, CNC and welding processes, validation, documentation, customer technical support, supplier coordination, continuous improvement, and team development. Manages the machine shop and collaborates across manufacturing, quality, sales, and customer service to deliver compliant, manufacturable products.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Lead the Dealing Journeys squad to deliver scalable, reliable trading and investing experiences. Own roadmap with product, guide technical direction across web and mobile (React/React Native), ensure observability, SLOs, and delivery predictability, coach and grow engineers, remove blockers, and partner on architecture for distributed AWS systems.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Leads a 5–10 person autonomy engineering team developing motion planning, tactical behaviors, multi-agent coordination, track fusion, and decision-making capabilities. Owns hiring, mentoring, technical direction, architecture, delivery, integration, validation, and field deployment across software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and live testing. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams and defense customers while remaining technically engaged in C++ development and complex autonomy challenges.

Lead a six-to-eight-person engineering team through people management, hiring, performance management, planning, delivery oversight, and career development. Remain hands-on by contributing code and pull requests while partnering with product managers and technical leaders on priorities, architecture, and alignment. Support onboarding, documentation, ownership clarity, and team growth. The role requires substantial backend experience, strong TypeScript skills, recent technical contributions, AI-enabled engineering workflow familiarity, and prior management of at least five engineers.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for hiring, coaching, delivery, quality, reliability, and technical execution. Partners with product and architecture teams to prioritize work, evaluate designs and estimates, resolve root causes, promote secure development, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, and improve engineering practices. Requires strong C# and .NET expertise, people management experience, cloud development knowledge, and the ability to deliver complex software with remote teams.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for delivery, quality, reliability, and professional growth. Hires, coaches, and evaluates engineers; oversees planning, prioritization, code and design reviews; drives root-cause analysis, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management. Partners with product, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable software while improving team practices, communication, and performance.

Leads a globally distributed software engineering team building Signal, an ERP platform supporting manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and infrastructure delivery workflows. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, delivery ownership, stakeholder collaboration, architectural guidance, process improvement, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools. The manager ensures high-quality, secure, predictable software delivery while remaining technically engaged in code reviews and planning.

Leads the Treasury engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, production monitoring, and incident response. Owns technical strategy for financial infrastructure, including ACH transfers, card issuing, QuickBooks integration, payment tools, wallets, rewards, and financial dashboards. Manages and mentors engineers, improves engineering workflows, ensures security and reliability, and partners with the VP of Engineering on product delivery and scalable team practices.

Lead and mentor Catalog and Partner Integrations engineering teams while combining hands-on software development with people management. Translate business needs into technical solutions, manage project delivery and dependencies, guide architecture, develop distributed applications, implement monitoring, and support engineering quality practices. The role also oversees hiring, performance management, team development, operational support, and data-intensive integrations across Gopuff’s first-party and partner channels.

Lead technical execution for teams building endpoint agents, backend and inference services, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products. Translate engineering priorities into plans, milestones, and ownership; guide architecture and implementation; manage, mentor, and develop engineers; oversee planning, delivery, quality, hiring, and onboarding; and remove technical or resourcing blockers. The role requires hands-on technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and familiarity with agentic coding tools in a fast-moving startup environment.

Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for CUDA Math Libraries platform expansion and readiness. Own integration, qualification, compliance, validation, performance testing, defect triage, and technical roadmaps across specialized platforms. Collaborate with library, DevOps, QA, compiler, CUDA, release, and platform teams. The role requires hands-on high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, performance optimization, and software engineering leadership.

Leads software engineering teams and enterprise application portfolios supporting sales execution, order management, CRM, ERP, and integrations. Owns solution strategy, architecture, delivery, roadmaps, application stability, security, testing, releases, budgets, vendors, and service performance. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize capabilities, manage risks, drive modernization, ensure adoption, and develop high-performing teams.

Lead Firestorm’s Simulation team and develop a reusable UAS simulation platform supporting aircraft models, sensors, propulsion, flight software, SIL/HIL testing, scenario orchestration, distributed execution, training, and demonstrations. Manage simulation infrastructure, integrations, automated test environments, cross-platform deployment, and team growth. The role requires hands-on software and simulation expertise across complex aircraft, robotics, networking, and hardware systems.

Leads engineering and QA teams developing and modernizing software for K-12 nutrition programs. Partners with Product on agile planning, staffing, delivery, quality, incident response, and process improvement. Recruits, coaches, and develops team members while managing performance, career growth, and team well-being. The role requires overseeing legacy ASP.NET systems and migration to modern .NET, Angular, AWS, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD technologies.

Leads distributed engineering teams developing and operating the Sensei Cloud SaaS platform. Responsibilities include people management, hiring, delivery predictability, platform quality and reliability, automated testing, incident response, technical design reviews, AI-assisted engineering adoption, security guardrails, and collaboration with Product, architects, executives, and partner teams across multiple regions.

Leads a distributed engineering team while contributing hands-on to Azure software development, observability services, cloud architecture, and production reliability. Responsibilities include technical direction, coding, design reviews, customer engagements, incident response, on-call operations, reusable engineering assets, cross-team initiatives, and people development. The role translates customer needs into Azure platform improvements and balances delivery, engineering strategy, service resilience, and talent development.