Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Boston, MA

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team (player-coach) to build and maintain mission-critical device monitoring, alerting, and internal health tooling. Drive technical strategy and microservices design, contribute full‑stack TypeScript/Node.js/React code, and manage containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes/Helm and AWS services (S3, API Gateway, SQS). Collaborate cross-functionally and use AI-assisted developer tools to increase team velocity.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

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.

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.

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.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team to deliver OS features for mission-critical edge systems. Manage timelines, risks, contractors, and resource allocation while ensuring safety, compliance (e.g., DO-178C), code quality, and Agile processes in certification-driven environments.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead and contribute to Audit product engineering across teams, rapidly joining high‑priority efforts to design, build, and integrate Azure PaaS and AI-enabled solutions, improve quality through shift‑left practices, troubleshoot production issues, and advise on architecture and delivery to drive measurable business value.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead and grow a team of 6–12 software engineers, drive project execution from planning to delivery, maintain technical standards and architecture, collaborate with Product and Design, conduct performance management and career development, recruit and retain talent, and improve engineering processes and team culture.

Lead the vision and development of the Customer Success portal for the Public Sector. Manage a cross-functional team and oversee product roadmap and KPIs.

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver backend services, platform components, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, testing, and operational readiness. Drive engineering standards, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement with emphasis on security, reliability, and scalable platform patterns.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead engineering managers and senior engineers for Authentication services, owning roadmap, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for cloud-native, low-latency API-based systems. Improve architecture, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and cross-team execution while partnering with Product, Research, Security, and Platform to operationalize AI/ML trust signals.

Lead and grow cross-functional engineering teams delivering Salesforce-centered services (Sales Cloud, Health Cloud) and backend systems. Drive agile delivery, technical architecture, code quality, cloud/IaC practices, and healthcare compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2). Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Marketing to prioritize roadmap, improve engineering operations, and report performance metrics to stakeholders.

Lead the Tools & Frameworks engineering team to build shared backend libraries, internal tooling, scalable APIs, and schemas. Define roadmap, balance technical and business priorities, drive architectural excellence (including FHIR translation, monorepo decomposition, data federation, event-streaming), mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver cloud-native, high-availability education platforms. Combine people management and hands-on development using Agile, CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring. Modernize monoliths, build APIs, ensure reliability at scale, and apply generative AI and responsible AI practices to improve user engagement and product outcomes.

Lead and grow an engineering team building StrongDM's just-in-time proxy and control-plane platform. Manage delivery of distributed systems in Go across AWS/multi-cloud, oversee code/design reviews (security, TLS/mTLS, credential brokering), translate roadmaps into execution plans, hire and develop engineers, and collaborate with product, architects, and DevOps/SRE to ensure secure, reliable platform operations and compliance with policy-as-code standards.

Hands-on technical leader accountable for architecture, design, and delivery of core insurance platforms (policy, claims, portals, web, mobile). Leads and mentors engineers, conducts code and design reviews, oversees CI/CD and Azure-based DevOps, champions engineering standards, and partners with Product and Operations to translate business needs into secure, scalable solutions while managing technical debt and platform modernization.

Lead multiple Agile development teams to deliver enterprise software; own architecture and technical design; drive end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, champion AI-first innovation, ensure release quality, partner with product, and improve operational excellence.

As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team in enhancing content workflows through automation and AI, develop scalable solutions, and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Lead NPD software engineering for semiconductor capital equipment, owning strategy, architecture, execution, quality, and cross-functional delivery. Manage hardware/software integration, CI/CD, automated testing, defect management, and cybersecurity readiness. Build and mentor global teams, run design and architecture reviews, drive reliability and platform reuse, and communicate status and risks to senior leadership through product release and field introduction.