Head of Software Engineering

Vision

With over 75 employees across three growing companies, we are seeking a seasoned Head of Engineering to lead and unify a multi-team development effort focused on delivering a next-generation, customer-centric software platform. This mission-critical role combines engineering leadership, people management, and product delivery for a technically complex platform spanning integrated subsystems, third-party service orchestration, and AI-driven capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• 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 and ensure AI and software systems include 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.

Who We Are

SLEQ Solutions is an internal shared services company providing support to our third-party administrator Company, Captrue Benefits and our MGU company TPAC, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our mission is to change the way healthcare is financed, disclosed and delivered. We need people who value honesty and transparency; people who take ownership and responsibility of whatever they are doing. We seek individuals who value all people and interact with humility and respect; people who like to dig deep into issues, who are curious and who understand life is about more than work. If you believe in our mission and share our Core Values, then we would like to talk about how we can make a positive impact together.

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 languages
• 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

Benefits

Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000