Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

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.

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

Leads and mentors a cross-functional software engineering team, managing career development, performance, and resource allocation. Owns delivery of operating system features, including timelines, risks, and dependencies. Serves as a technical liaison for customers and stakeholders, translating operational capabilities into software requirements. Interprets aerospace and safety-critical standards into actionable engineering work while ensuring compliant, secure delivery.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

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 Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.

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 a 4–7 engineer team owning delivery of consumer and enterprise restaurant applications. Manage capacity, hiring, budgets, launch execution, long-term architecture, AI tooling guidance, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder communication to ensure scalable, reliable product rollouts.