Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Austin, TX

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.

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 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.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within a financial institution. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, managing delivery and stakeholder relationships, overseeing architecture and implementation, ensuring secure and resilient production systems, and maintaining compliance with business requirements. The role also drives responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, SDLC automation, and enterprise development tools while supporting hiring, talent development, technical troubleshooting, and project execution.

Manages and grows a software engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture, development, integration, and troubleshooting. Leads cloud-native AWS services, microservices, APIs, Python backend systems, frontend components, secure access controls, CI/CD, and production support for satellite communications ground systems. Collaborates with systems engineering, MBSE, cybersecurity, testing, DevSecOps, and government stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, traceable, and reliable mission software.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Leads and grows a full-stack engineering team building GM’s commercial eCommerce platform. Owns the technical roadmap, architecture, system design, code reviews, incident resolution, and end-to-end software delivery across catalog, billing, payments, and monetization services. Partners with Product, Design, Business, and Sales stakeholders while ensuring fault tolerance, financial data integrity, compliance, operational excellence, and production reliability.

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.

Lead a product engineering team of 4–8 engineers while remaining hands-on in the code. Own planning, prioritization, delivery, architecture, design and code reviews, on-call, incident response, and performance management. Develop engineers through feedback and career coaching, lead hiring, and represent engineering to stakeholders. The role emphasizes backend-leaning full-stack development with Ruby and React/TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, third-party integrations, observability, and AI-assisted coding in a fast-paced startup environment.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Leads Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, combining people leadership with technical strategy across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and efficiency. The manager will develop engineers, establish ownership, improve operational health, lead modernization and disaster-recovery initiatives, build automation and self-service infrastructure, and coordinate with engineering and security leaders. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least two years managing software or infrastructure engineers.

Leads and mentors cross-functional engineering teams building and operating distributed, API-driven, cloud-native platforms. Owns technical strategy, architecture, delivery outcomes, engineering excellence, operational reliability, and API lifecycle governance. Drives Agile, DevOps, cloud migration, observability, and incident management practices. Establishes responsible AI adoption across software development and guides delivery of AI-enabled products, including agentic solutions, with appropriate evaluation and controls.

Leads the Aerial engineering team in delivering major technical initiatives, shaping product roadmaps, improving quality and reliability, and developing senior engineers into technical leaders. The role requires hands-on contributions across web, backend, cloud, AI, and data-intensive systems, while partnering with Product, leadership, and customers. Responsibilities include defining success metrics, advancing AI-driven development practices, setting technical direction, and representing the team to customers and executives.

Lead a distributed team while remaining 70% hands-on in designing, coding, deploying, and architecting Cyderes’ next-generation cybersecurity portal. Build scalable multi-tenant web applications, APIs, dashboards, and workflow capabilities using React, TypeScript, AWS, and backend languages such as Python, Java, or Go. Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, guide architecture, improve AI-assisted development practices, and integrate MDR and Meridian capabilities.

Leads and manages software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, budgeting, planning, roadmap delivery, system design, and technical strategy. Oversees scalable, secure, compliant applications across multiple technology stacks, drives CI/CD, migrations, modernization, process improvement, and engineering best practices, and partners with product and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality customer-facing solutions.

Leads Natera’s Software Engineering and DevOps team within Data Science Production Engineering. Responsibilities include managing engineers, designing and maintaining AWS cloud and data platforms, developing automation and production software, optimizing infrastructure performance, overseeing testing and deployment, enforcing quality and compliance procedures, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating infrastructure roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders. The role supports regulated genomics and medical diagnostics environments and requires expertise in Python, databases, AWS, Linux, software development, and genomics data.

Leads software engineering for Venmo Commerce products used by millions. Responsibilities include managing engineering teams, setting technical direction, creating roadmaps, delivering complex distributed systems, partnering with Product and Design, hiring and developing talent, and ensuring reliability, security, quality, and operational excellence. The role requires strong technical judgment, product instincts, cross-functional leadership, and AI fluency in software development.

Leads engineers and technical leads in delivering AI-powered CX and contact center products. Responsibilities include solution architecture, technical design reviews, implementation planning, customer deployments, cross-functional coordination, risk management, technology evaluation, and integration assessment across AI platforms and CCaaS solutions. The role also oversees delivery readiness and develops high-performing technical teams.

Leads and develops a software engineering team, owns engineer growth, partners with Product and technical teams on architecture and data models, facilitates technical roadmap execution, translates business goals into requirements, and drives scalable, maintainable solutions amid ambiguity.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

Leads a software engineering team building backend services, APIs, and product integrations. Responsibilities include people management, technical direction, architecture reviews, delivery planning, vendor coordination, API and integration standards, testing, observability, security, release readiness, and production support. The manager also recruits and develops engineers, manages dependencies and risks, and ensures reliable, maintainable solutions across internal teams, customers, and external technology partners.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Leads the electrical engineering software and tooling discipline, managing tool portfolios, licensing, infrastructure, compliance, and enterprise strategy. Partners with engineering programs to resolve workflow needs, optimizes software costs, supports secure environments, and integrates AI-driven automation. Manages and develops a technical team while overseeing software deployments, server configurations, and Authority to Operate compliance across classified and enterprise settings. Travel to domestic Raytheon locations is required up to 20%.