Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

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 Headway’s Web Platform team of five frontend engineers. Own frontend strategy, design systems, web architecture, accessibility, performance, testing, and agentic UI workflows. Hire and develop engineers, manage performance, align with Design and product teams, define roadmaps and metrics, and advocate for frontend standards company-wide. Remain hands-on with code and AI tools while evolving shared frameworks, tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Leads and develops a software engineering team responsible for high-availability trading platform systems. Oversees hiring, coaching, team operations, delivery, reliability, incident response, on-call health, observability, and technical investment. Partners with Product, Engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to guide architecture, manage trade-offs, and deliver resilient backend and distributed systems. The role requires strong people leadership, production operations experience, and technical credibility with .NET/C#, AWS, containers, and orchestration.

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.

Leads multiple software engineering teams developing mission-critical aerospace and defense software. Responsibilities include people management, software lifecycle oversight, Agile and DevOps process implementation, CI/CD and version control governance, compliance with aerospace quality standards, budget and resource management, cybersecurity integration, process improvement, and stakeholder communication. The role requires mentoring engineers, ensuring secure and reliable delivery, and maintaining U.S. security clearance eligibility.

Leads and builds True Anomaly’s digital engineering platform and digital thread across PLM, ALM, MBSE, ERP, and manufacturing systems. The role establishes architecture, writes production code, develops integrations and systems of record, and ensures data traceability, auditability, observability, and quality. It also owns roadmap delivery, cross-functional governance, compliance support, and hiring and developing a software engineering team. The position is onsite in Denver or Long Beach and supports ITAR/CUI requirements and national security operations.

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.

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 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 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.

Leads the Platform Authentication and Authorization engineering team, combining people management, technical direction, and delivery accountability. Oversees identity and access services using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Keycloak, MFA, SSO, federation, and policy enforcement. Guides software architecture, production operations, secure development, compliance, modernization, and cross-functional delivery while developing engineers and promoting responsible AI-assisted engineering.

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 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.

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 team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead a six-to-eight-person engineering team through people management, hiring, performance management, planning, delivery oversight, and career development. Remain hands-on by contributing code and pull requests while partnering with product managers and technical leaders on priorities, architecture, and alignment. Support onboarding, documentation, ownership clarity, and team growth. The role requires substantial backend experience, strong TypeScript skills, recent technical contributions, AI-enabled engineering workflow familiarity, and prior management of at least five engineers.

Leads the Treasury engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, production monitoring, and incident response. Owns technical strategy for financial infrastructure, including ACH transfers, card issuing, QuickBooks integration, payment tools, wallets, rewards, and financial dashboards. Manages and mentors engineers, improves engineering workflows, ensures security and reliability, and partners with the VP of Engineering on product delivery and scalable team practices.

Lead and mentor Catalog and Partner Integrations engineering teams while combining hands-on software development with people management. Translate business needs into technical solutions, manage project delivery and dependencies, guide architecture, develop distributed applications, implement monitoring, and support engineering quality practices. The role also oversees hiring, performance management, team development, operational support, and data-intensive integrations across Gopuff’s first-party and partner channels.

Lead technical execution for teams building endpoint agents, backend and inference services, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products. Translate engineering priorities into plans, milestones, and ownership; guide architecture and implementation; manage, mentor, and develop engineers; oversee planning, delivery, quality, hiring, and onboarding; and remove technical or resourcing blockers. The role requires hands-on technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and familiarity with agentic coding tools in a fast-moving startup environment.

Lead architecture, scalability, performance, and security for Salesforce and Node.js applications while managing a team of 10–15 engineers. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve development velocity, oversee integrations and deployment processes, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. The role combines hands-on Salesforce technical architecture with people management, hiring, career development, and delivery accountability.