Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead a hands-on engineering team building and shipping features for a modern trucking transportation management system. Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, contribute to Ruby on Rails and React development, mentor engineers, maintain engineering quality, understand customer workflows, and deliver improvements quickly in a fully remote environment.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

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 Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Manage a team developing accelerated image and data compression libraries. Define project goals, roadmap, and scope; ensure execution and delivery; elevate engineering practices; collaborate with internal and external customers and the open-source community while fostering an inclusive, innovative environment.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining NinjaOne SaaS products. Provides technical direction, participates in architecture, code reviews, integrations, and deployments, and partners with product, platform, and project management teams. Oversees engineering operations, team mentoring, software quality, continuous improvement, and successful product delivery across UI, mobile, server, and agent systems.

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.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for hiring, coaching, delivery, quality, reliability, and technical execution. Partners with product and architecture teams to prioritize work, evaluate designs and estimates, resolve root causes, promote secure development, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, and improve engineering practices. Requires strong C# and .NET expertise, people management experience, cloud development knowledge, and the ability to deliver complex software with remote teams.

Leads a distributed software engineering team responsible for delivery, quality, reliability, and professional growth. Hires, coaches, and evaluates engineers; oversees planning, prioritization, code and design reviews; drives root-cause analysis, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management. Partners with product, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable software while improving team practices, communication, and performance.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Lead and grow an engineering team building agentic development systems. Set technical direction, contribute to architecture and implementation, and improve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, reliability, performance, and operability. Partner with Product and Design to create developer experiences while extending provider-agnostic model integrations. Coach engineers, clarify priorities, and maintain a high technical and execution standard.

Lead and grow the Mission Ops software engineering team while owning technical strategy, architecture, execution, and reliability across frontend, APIs, and backend systems. Build monitoring, alerting, incident management, and fleet operations capabilities for mission-critical hardware. Collaborate with Product and Go-To-Market teams, improve engineering processes, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on to distributed systems and web applications.

Lead the Edge Systems engineering team building high-performance Rust servers, desktop applications, and open-source client libraries. Manage and mentor engineers, define technical roadmaps with Product and Go-to-Market teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure reliable delivery for demanding hardware test environments. Contribute hands-on to architecture, code, performance, data ingestion, durable storage, and critical technical challenges. The role requires experience with low-latency systems, real-time acquisition, offline or air-gapped deployments, and engineering leadership.

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.

Manages and grows a software engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture, development, integration, and troubleshooting. Leads cloud-native AWS platform services, microservices, APIs, backend Python development, frontend components, authentication, databases, CI/CD, deployment, and production support. Collaborates with systems engineering, MBSE, cybersecurity, test, DevSecOps, and government stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable satellite communications software and mitigate technical risks.

Leads and grows a team of modeling and simulation engineers developing high-fidelity physics-based models and digital twins for spacecraft design, testing, and operations. Provides technical oversight of modeling architecture, validation, and integration; owns the team roadmap; coordinates cross-functional delivery; manages hiring, performance, development, and team culture; and translates organizational strategy into execution.

Leads software engineering delivery for a healthcare plan sponsor domain, overseeing 2–3 Scrum teams, technical roadmaps, architecture, risk management, production issues, dependencies, and monthly deployments. Manages direct reports, partners with product and business stakeholders, drives modernization and AI adoption, and ensures secure, high-quality delivery using cloud, DevSecOps, and modern application technologies.

Leads a software engineering team developing VALORANT Player Dynamics features across backend services, game client, and server technology. Owns technical direction, scalable infrastructure, feature delivery, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The role requires building reliable systems that support player engagement, content acquisition, and safe gaming experiences.

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 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 a 10–15-person software engineering team supporting mission planning and mission data management. Responsibilities include staffing, recruiting, training, performance management, career development, workforce planning, compensation coordination, conflict resolution, and process improvement. The manager partners with program teams to align engineering resources with delivery goals and maintains engineering excellence. The role requires software or systems engineering experience, Agile or SAFe knowledge, and an active DoD Secret clearance.