Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Austin, TX

Leads engineering teams developing platform software for GPU-accelerated applications using Kubernetes, container runtimes, Kata Containers, and Confidential Containers. Responsibilities include enabling GPUs as Kubernetes resources, integrating software across NVIDIA’s technology stack, managing priorities, and delivering secure, reliable distributed systems. The role requires deep systems software expertise, engineering management experience, and hands-on knowledge of containers, Linux, cloud computing, virtualization, and confidential computing technologies.

Leads multiple software engineering teams building enterprise platforms, integrations, APIs, and modernization programs. Sets technical direction, owns delivery and production health, drives architecture and legacy-system modernization, and embeds AI coding agents across the software development lifecycle. The role remains hands-on through coding, reviews, debugging, and prototyping while coaching leaders, hiring engineers, improving engineering practices, measuring delivery performance, and aligning technical outcomes with business strategy.

Leads and codes alongside a 6–12 person software engineering team responsible for order fulfillment products and services. Owns technical direction, architecture, delivery, reliability, operational excellence, hiring, coaching, and performance management. Designs scalable systems, writes production code, participates in incident response, and drives cloud and legacy modernization. Establishes agent-native development practices using AI coding tools, including guardrails, automated testing, code review, and evaluation workflows. Partners with product, business, and engineering teams on roadmaps and cross-functional initiatives.

Lead a senior engineering team building Fingerprint’s Automation Intelligence product from beta through commercial launch. Own product readiness, service reliability, detection accuracy, testing, rollout quality, API contracts, observability, team growth, and AI-native engineering practices. Partner with product, research, and customer-facing teams while establishing autonomous ownership, quality metrics, and contract-first APIs for detecting and classifying bots, AI agents, and other automation.

Lead the Methods and Insights engineering teams, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery, operational health, architecture, and developer experience. Partner with product leaders and founders to sequence work, manage risk, improve engineering processes, and ship reliable systems. Build AI-agent development practices, shared components, CI gates, conventions, and harnesses that help engineers move quickly while maintaining quality.

Lead and grow a hands-on payments engineering team building secure, scalable systems for ACH and wire transfers. Responsibilities include payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, banking integrations, fraud prevention, anomaly detection, escrow applications, architecture, data integrity, idempotency, failure handling, and audit logging. Partner with compliance, risk, accounting, security, and customer-facing teams to meet regulatory requirements while mentoring engineers and managing high-liability production systems.

Leads and mentors a global software engineering team, overseeing career development, architecture, roadmaps, delivery, software quality, operational excellence, incident response, KPIs, and SLOs. Partners with Product, Design, Support, QA, and engineering leadership to deliver scalable, reliable web-based products and cross-team initiatives.

Leads engineering, systems engineering, architecture, or technology initiatives in a management capacity. Requires at least ten years of relevant experience, including two years of management, plus a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or computer information systems. The role follows a flex-hybrid schedule, requires Texas residency, and includes travel to the designated office as needed.

Leads and develops an engineering team focused on developer productivity and observability for autonomous vehicle software. Defines technical strategy and platform roadmaps, oversees distributed systems architecture, instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing, and supports incident response. Partners with AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability. Leads telemetry tools and data pipelines at scale while managing third-party observability vendors, costs, coaching, performance reviews, and career development.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Leads the Landing Pages engineering team and product, overseeing architecture, scalable web experiences, APIs, integrations, reporting, and product growth. Partners with product and design to prioritize features, validate usage, and increase adoption. Recruits, coaches, and retains engineers; establishes team vision, goals, and processes; guides major technical decisions; and contributes code where strategically valuable.

Leads a team delivering enterprise APIs, integrations, and microservices using MuleSoft, C#/.NET, Kubernetes, and Azure. Owns platform architecture, governance, security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and operational readiness. Manages roadmap execution, architecture reviews, engineering standards, stakeholder communication, hiring, coaching, and contractor resources. The role requires hybrid work in Austin, Texas, with occasional after-hours incident response.

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 a nine-person Pricing and Subscription engineering team delivering pricing, promotions, checkout, and subscription experiences. Partner with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Data to shape the roadmap, drive experimentation, and guide technical decisions. Remain hands-on through design and code reviews, debugging, and platform modernization toward event-driven architecture. Ensure reliable, scalable, secure systems while overseeing on-call operations. Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and communicate business impact to executives and cross-functional leaders.

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 and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

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 a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

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.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

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 and develops a team of 4–6 software engineers building and operating React Native mobile applications, backend services, and administration platforms. Responsibilities include people management, architecture, code quality, technical debt reduction, delivery planning, cross-team collaboration, infrastructure and security coordination, engineering metrics, and rotating on-call support. The role remains technically engaged through design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, and architectural guidance.