Head of Software Engineering

SLEQ Solutions; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SLEQ Solutions in Blaine, MN seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a multi‑team development effort for a next‑generation, customer‑centric software platform. You will steer strategy, platform architecture, and delivery discipline from roadmap planning through release and post‑launch monitoring.

You will recruit, mentor, and retain high‑performing engineers, establish coding standards and DevOps maturity, and oversee AI/ML capabilities, data pipelines, and ML/LLM initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading teams in a product-driven environment.
• Hands-on coding in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar.
• Experience delivering AI/ML-enabled products, including LLM integration, MLOps, data pipelines, or responsible AI governance.

Responsibilities

• 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, DevOps 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.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Java

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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, DevOps 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.

Qualifications

• 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, TypeScript, 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