Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs

Lead and grow Ground Systems Software teams: hire, mentor, allocate staff, define scope, track program progress, and drive technical architecture, design reuse, process improvements, and best practices for satellite ground segment development and testing.

Manage and develop software engineering teams, guide architecture and modernization initiatives, ensure security, stability, scalability, and quality, and remove technical impediments. Collaborate with product leaders, architects, scrum teams, and vendors to deliver banking technology capabilities. Lead code reviews, agile and DevOps practices, risk management, hiring, performance management, and engineer development. The role requires expertise in Java, .NET C#, RDBMS, web services, and Finastra Loan IQ.

Leads Tapestry Solutions’ software engineering and IT strategy, overseeing software development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, budgets, capture support, compliance, and technical resource allocation. Manages and mentors engineering and IT teams, collaborates with government and commercial stakeholders, drives innovation, mitigates technology risks, and ensures solutions support defense and commercial client needs. The role requires extensive software leadership, government contracting experience, SDLC expertise, budget responsibility, and the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Clearance.

Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team building cloud-native device intelligence, geospatial analytics, and AI-enabled data platform products. Drive technical execution, architecture, data quality, and cross-functional partnerships while supporting hiring, mentorship, vendor management, and delivery of scalable, reliable data products for enterprise use.

Leads the GTI engineering team, managing people, delivery, architecture, code quality, releases, production health, and on-call operations. The role remains hands-on, requiring contributions across C#/.NET services, TypeScript/React frontend systems, SQL Server, Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and testing. The manager partners with product, design, and tax content teams to ship reliable tax and regulatory software on schedule.

Leads software development teams building GM Loyalty web and mobile platforms. Sets technical direction, manages roadmaps and delivery, coaches engineers, guides architecture, and ensures software quality, security, reliability, scalability, and compliance. Oversees integrations, cloud modernization, performance tuning, production deployments, incident resolution, and post-launch support while collaborating cross-functionally and promoting automation and AI adoption.

Leads the X-BAT Hardware Test Software team developing Python-based automated production test systems for avionics and aircraft electrical assemblies. Responsibilities include managing engineers, owning technical roadmaps, designing test frameworks and station-control software, integrating instrumentation and FPGA-enabled hardware, improving test coverage and production reliability, and coordinating with electrical, mechanical, embedded, manufacturing, and program teams.

Leads a cross-functional engineering and science team supporting U.S. Space Force software evaluation and integration. Responsibilities include evaluating physics-based concepts, designing and testing full-stack software, implementing end-to-end solutions, reviewing and writing code, translating RF and space weather requirements, coordinating engineering disciplines, mentoring personnel, and communicating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Lead multiple software engineering teams supporting a large-scale merchant transaction platform. Responsibilities include technology strategy, Java application modernization, architecture oversight, platform reliability, scalability, incident management, security and regulatory compliance, engineering metrics, staffing, budgeting, and talent development. The role partners with product, business, architecture, and operations stakeholders while driving cloud-native practices, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement.

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 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 multiple software engineering teams and managers responsible for scaling B2B SaaS products. The role combines people management, technical leadership, recruiting, mentoring, performance development, and engineering culture improvement. Responsibilities include promoting software quality, automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, Agile practices, and cross-functional collaboration with product, QA, security, sales, marketing, HR, and customer success teams.

Leads a team of 3D artists and pipeline engineers delivering content and simulation framework engineering for autonomous vehicle simulation. Provides technical leadership, manages execution, assigns priorities, reviews deliverables and documentation, removes roadblocks, and collaborates cross-functionally. Responsibilities also include hiring, staffing, employee development, training, performance management, compensation planning, and communicating team strategy and organizational policies.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and operations of Caterpillar’s search platform. Manages and mentors multiple software engineering teams while delivering scalable, high-performance search capabilities for web and mobile applications. Oversees integrations, quality assurance, IT service operations, analytics, and continuous relevance improvements using NLP, vector search, personalization, machine learning, and A/B testing. Partners with product, data science, and engineering leaders to align search initiatives with business objectives.

Leads a software engineering team supporting mission-critical C4ISR space systems. Responsibilities include technical oversight, architecture reviews, software design and sustainment, program execution, hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, proposal support, and collaboration with functional managers and discipline leads. The role requires onsite work in Hudson or Merrimack, New Hampshire, and an active Top Secret clearance.

Leads software engineering teams developing mission-critical trade execution platforms for Treasury and Chief Investment Office Technology. Responsibilities include technical strategy, system design, application development, cloud-native delivery, operational stability, stakeholder management, vendor coordination, mentoring engineers, and scaling secure AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation practices across teams.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within employee platforms, providing technical guidance, managing delivery, coaching engineers, and ensuring compliance with business requirements and service levels. Drives responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development, SDLC automation, and reusable engineering practices. Oversees stakeholder relationships, project dependencies, agile delivery, security, application resiliency, and cloud-native engineering initiatives.

Leads the Safety Engineering Mobile Client team, setting technical direction and delivering secure, scalable mobile systems for account integrity, authentication, reporting, and compliance. Responsibilities include coaching and hiring engineers, driving complex cross-functional initiatives, improving engineering quality and operational excellence, partnering with Product, Legal, Trust & Safety, and backend teams, and balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform investments. The manager also promotes responsible use of AI-assisted development while maintaining rigorous security, performance, and code-quality standards.

Leads and manages a software engineering team supporting mission-critical C4ISR space systems. Responsibilities include supervision, mentoring, career development, performance management, recruiting, technical leadership, architecture reviews, software design and sustainment oversight, bid and proposal support, and collaboration with functional managers and discipline leads. The role is performed onsite in Hudson or Merrimack, New Hampshire, and requires an active Top Secret clearance.

Leads software engineering for cash and check management technology, owning technical quality, architecture collaboration, delivery, reliability, security, and modernization. Mentors engineers, manages stakeholders, aligns roadmaps, and drives cross-team execution. Builds agentic AI and automation capabilities across AWS-based microservices platforms while promoting AI-assisted development and continuous improvement.

Leads the Buyercloud Ad Serving software engineering team, managing engineers, guiding architecture and development practices, and delivering features with Product Management. Drives infrastructure improvements, quality standards, performance management, technical support, training, and adherence to deadlines and budgets. The role requires collaboration across remote teams and time zones, independent judgment, and occasional nights or weekends.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for strategy, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release management, and operational stability. Establishes roadmaps, delivery governance, engineering standards, and production-readiness practices while managing dependencies and stakeholder priorities. Drives CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, observability, risk mitigation, and secure software delivery. Coaches engineering leaders, improves team performance through metrics, and guides responsible adoption of enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering tools and SDLC automation.

Leads the BMS software engineering organization, owning technology strategy, modernization, cloud adoption, reliability, cybersecurity, lifecycle management, and operational support. Manages engineers, budgets, vendors, workforce planning, risk remediation, and strategic sourcing. Partners with business, infrastructure, cyber, network, and facilities stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient building technology platforms across branches, offices, and data centers.

Leads Treasury Technology engineering teams and delivers scalable platforms for liquidity, funding, cash management, regulatory reporting, risk management, and balance sheet optimization. Responsibilities include cloud adoption, platform modernization, AI and ML implementation, DevOps, CI/CD, security, resilience, regulatory compliance, stakeholder collaboration, roadmap management, budgeting, vendor oversight, and talent development.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within enterprise technology, providing technical guidance, managing delivery, coaching engineers, and coordinating stakeholders. Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation while ensuring human validation, data security, compliance, resiliency, and business alignment. Requires hands-on experience with Spark, Databricks, AWS, Java, big data, event-driven architecture, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and agile practices in financial services.