Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Shared Services

SLEQ Solutions is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our shared services team. This full‑time position is located in our Blaine, MN office and focuses on leading a multi‑team development effort to deliver a next‑generation, customer‑centric software platform.

• Lead engineering strategy, technical direction, and platform architecture with speed, scale, quality, and maintainability.
• Oversee AI‑driven product capabilities, intelligent automation, ML/LLM initiatives, and emerging technology adoption, ensuring oversight, explainability, security, compliance, and risk controls.
• Build, mentor, and retain high‑performing engineering teams with clear standards, accountability, and growth paths.
• Set engineering practices, coding standards, quality benchmarks, Dev Ops maturity, automation, observability, and release discipline, and own engineering execution from roadmap planning and estimation through delivery, launch, and post‑release monitoring.
• Partner with Product and executives to refine priorities, manage trade‑offs, unblock dependencies, and communicate risks.
• Champion customer value and collaborate across Product, Design, Customer Success, Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams in a product‑driven environment.
• Hands‑on technical credibility, with recent coding experience in Python, Type Script, Go, Java, or similar.
• Proven ability to design, build, and ship scalable platforms, with strong architecture, cloud, engineering standards, and roadmap discipline.
• Experience delivering AI/ML‑enabled products, including LLM integration, MLOps, data pipelines, or responsible AI governance.
• Strong people leadership and communication skills, with the ability to build teams, create accountability, and explain technical complexity clearly.

Salary Range: $150,000 – $190,000 per year