Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead two engineering squads building Breezeway's property operations product. Hire, coach, and grow engineers; own planning, delivery, and cross-squad coordination; set technical direction, architecture guidance, and engineering quality; partner with Product and Design to translate roadmap into executed work.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

Lead engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

Lead, coach, and grow a team of 5-10 software engineers; prioritize and drive application development and support; define and execute the application roadmap; ensure scalable, performant, maintainable designs; champion code quality, CI/CD, automated testing, and agile practices; communicate with leadership and stakeholders.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for AWS/Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, observability, incident response, and FinOps. Set technical direction for IaC, pipelines, and service management while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security and participating in on-call rotation.

Lead and manage SRE/DevOps teams to drive reliability roadmaps, oversee incident management, ensure cloud-native infrastructure scalability, security, and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to align reliability with business goals.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

Lead and grow the Customer Studio engineering team to deliver major product features, improve execution pace, hiring, reliability, and incident management. Drive data-warehouse performance optimizations, real-time audience syncing (CDC), analytics/experimentation, and integrate generative AI to improve user workflows while mentoring engineers and collaborating on roadmap and recruiting.

Lead and mentor an 8-10 person software engineering team building scalable, high-availability cloud data pipelines and integrations (including real-time 911 ingestion). Drive planning, architecture, code reviews, delivery, hiring, and operational discipline while collaborating with product and client teams.

Lead and grow an engineering team, set technical vision, drive delivery of scalable secure systems, partner with product/design, establish engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, TDD), mentor engineers, and promote innovation to advance Function's healthcare platform.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Lead the Lister engineering domain, owning roadmap, delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and team growth. Manage three pods via team leads, stay hands-on with architecture and code reviews, partner cross-functionally, own intake and reliability, and hire/mentor engineers to scale backend services and data pipelines that integrate messy third-party partner systems.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

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.

Lead the Infrastructure Platform team, overseeing initiatives in SRE and infrastructure design, focusing on cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability. Manage a high-performing engineering team and improve SDLC processes.

As a Mission Software Engineer, you'll develop solutions for government customers by integrating software into existing workflows, requiring significant travel, collaboration, and technical expertise.

Lead and mentor full-stack engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable client-facing and proprietary software. Drive architecture, technical roadmap, Agile delivery, cloud-native migrations, API integrations, quality metrics, and cross-functional collaboration while balancing hands-on development and people leadership to meet product and business goals.

Manage day-to-day telecom operations and a team supporting enterprise voice, unified communications, and contact center platforms. Oversee implementations, upgrades, vendor/carrier relationships, telecom expense management, incident resolution, reporting, and cost optimization to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable telecom services across stores, contact centers, and corporate locations.

Lead the Lister engineering domain end-to-end: set roadmap and technical vision across three pods, ensure partner data quality and system reliability, develop team leads and engineers, drive architecture and code review, manage incident/on-call processes, and partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Partner Success to translate ambiguous partner needs into scoped engineering work.

Lead a full-stack engineering team, balancing hands-on coding and technical leadership. Partner with Product to align priorities, drive quality practices, hire and coach engineers, improve engineering processes, contribute to the codebase, and ensure scalable, testable, and user-focused product delivery.