Engineering Manager

northteq; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northteq is seeking an Engineering Manager to balance hands-on Salesforce development with team leadership on the Aurora-based product. You will split time between coding and guiding the engineering team to predictable, high-quality delivery.

This role emphasizes speed, quality, and ARR impact. You will manage a 4-person development team, drive sprint planning and cadence, and own engineering quality end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a software engineering team.
• Hands-on Salesforce development background.
• Strong track record delivering with metric-driven delivery.
• Ability to own end-to-end delivery and quality.
• Experience with AI tooling in development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Write production-quality code in Apex and Lightning Web Components.
• Lead sprint planning and delivery cadence.
• Manage a team of 4 product developers.
• Own engineering quality, testing, and release criteria.
• Drive secure coding and remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate and adopt AI tooling across the engineering workflow.
• Collaborate with Head of Product on strategy and roadmap.

Skills

Salesforce development

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Team leadership

Sprint planning

Job description

The Engineering Manager is a player-coach role on the Product team responsible for making sure Northteq ships the right things, fast, and at quality. You will split your time between hands-on Salesforce development and leading the engineering team through disciplined, metric-driven delivery. The balance between coding and management will shift based on business needs, but the expectation is that you remain a strong technical contributor while owning engineering execution end to end.

You will manage all product developers, run sprint planning and delivery cadence, and be directly accountable for the team delivering on its commitments. You are expected to bring urgency and energy to work that drives ARR and client value, not just technical elegance. The right candidate is someone who gets excited about shipping product that wins deals, not just solving interesting engineering problems.

You will also own the technical enablement of Professional Services; building and maintaining implementation frameworks, configuration patterns, and technical guardrails that allow PS to deliver client implementations efficiently and independently. This is an ongoing responsibility that directly scales Northteq’s delivery capacity.

You are expected to be an active adopter and advocate for AI-assisted development. You will evaluate and implement AI tooling across the engineering workflow; code generation, automated testing, documentation, code review and identify opportunities where AI can accelerate both product development and client implementation.

You will work in close partnership with the Head of Product.

The Head of Product owns product strategy and roadmap (the what and why); as Engineering Manager you own delivery execution and engineering quality (the how and when). Both roles share accountability for shipping product that drives ARR and client value."

Essential Job Functions

:Engineering & Technical Delivery (~50%

• )Write production-quality code in Apex, Lightning Web Components, the Salesforce platform Azure AI and external API integrations. Contribute directly to Aurora product development including new features and improvemen
• tTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the Aurora platform
• .Get productive quickly in Aurora’s existing codebase. This is a mature, complex Salesforce application, the ability to navigate, understand, and contribute to an established architecture is essential
• .Conduct code reviews for all product development work. Enforce coding standards and ensure code quality before anything ships
• .Contribute to technical architecture decisions in collaboration with the Head of Product and Technical Architect
• .Own quality standards for the engineering team: define what “done” means, establish testing expectations, set release criteria, and drive continuous improvement in defect rates. When quality issues reach PS or clients, own the response and the process improvement
• .Maintain a healthy balance between feature delivery and technical debt reduction. Surface and prioritize debt that threatens delivery velocity, quality, or security
• .Own secure coding standards, code analysis tooling (SAST), and timely remediation of vulnerability findings, including penetration test results, SOC 2 controls, and security review outcomes

Team Leadership & Delivery Management (~40

• )%Manage, coach, and develop a team of 4 product developers. Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and build a high-performing tea
• m.Conduct regular 1:1s and own career development planning, performance reviews, and compensation conversations for direct report
• s.Lead hiring, interviewing, and onboarding for new engineering team members as the team grow
• s.Address performance issues directly, including formal performance management of underperformers in partnership with H
• R.Run sprint/increment planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and demo sessions with discipline and rigor. This is not agile-in-name-only; the team makes commitments, tracks against them, and is accountable for outcome
• s.Own the team's delivery commitments and metrics end to end — from planning through execution to reporting. Establish baselines, set targets, and continuously improve delivery performance over tim
• e.Identify and remove blockers dail
• y.Manage capacity planning and resource allocation across active projects. Protect committed work from unplanned interruption
• s.Drive urgency around work that directly supports ARR; new product delivery, features that unblock pipeline, and functionality that accelerates client go-lives. Push back on work that does not move the business forwar

PS Technical Enablement & AI (~1