Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Lead a globally distributed IT engineering team building enterprise integrations, workflow automation, orchestration, and AI-native workflows. Set technical direction, establish roadmaps, manage delivery metrics, and partner with business and service operations leaders to eliminate manual work. Guide engineers on architecture, CI/CD, testing, and development practices while evaluating emerging automation and AI tools. Build integrations across identity, ITSM, SaaS, and enterprise systems, and grow team capabilities across US and India time zones.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

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.

Lead and develop an engineering squad building scalable partner-facing products and APIs. Shape multi-quarter strategy, coordinate across engineering and business teams, guide architecture and technical tradeoffs, improve reliability and delivery practices, and develop engineers and emerging leaders. Partner with Product, Design, and Business Development to translate customer and partner needs into durable platform capabilities while influencing broader engineering direction and culture.

Lead a small Infrastructure and Agentic Platform team while serving as a hands-on engineering manager. Own AWS infrastructure, data platforms, security, compliance, reliability, and AI-native software development workflows. Mentor engineers, guide hiring, define the roadmap, and build tools for planning, coding, testing, monitoring, and triage. The role requires balancing AI acceleration with engineering quality, cost, security, and operational reliability in a healthcare AI environment.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

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 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.

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.

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.

Build and lead GM’s Core OS engineering organization for vehicle compute platforms. Define the team charter, hire engineers, establish architecture, and deliver production software supporting hypervisors, virtualization, containers, secure boot, safety monitoring, and Linux, Android, and QNX guest operating systems. Own roadmaps, KPIs, cross-functional integration, vendor partnerships, risk management, and vehicle-program milestones while ensuring scalable, reliable, and updateable platform software.

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.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building customer-facing competitive intelligence products. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, translating priorities into execution plans, guiding architecture and quality, managing incidents, recruiting engineers, improving processes, and promoting responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires close collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership and is based in Rosslyn, Virginia, with at least three office days per week.

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.

Leads software engineering teams developing innovative applications and scalable architectures for tax-focused digital transformation. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, deploying, and integrating software using .NET, Java, Python, Azure, APIs, and microservices. The role drives continuous delivery, applies systems thinking and ATDD, aligns solutions with client and business needs, and coaches diverse, high-performing teams through complex initiatives.

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.