Engineering Manager
Sleek
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Singapore
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About the role
- Build, lead, and retain a high-performing team with strong ownership and accountability.
- Establish predictable delivery through effective planning, estimation, and execution.
- Ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality features aligned with product priorities.
- Improve engineering velocity while maintaining or raising quality standards.
- Partner with Staff/Principal Engineers to guide system design and architectural decisions.
- Ensure engineering best practices across code quality, testing, reviews, and documentation.
- Drive pragmatic technical decision-making that balances speed, quality, and maintainability.
- Actively manage and reduce technical debt.
- Own sprint, quarterly, and roadmap execution for your team(s).
- Improve and standardise agile rituals (planning, retrospectives, stand-ups).
- Define and track delivery metrics (cycle time, throughput, reliability).
- Proactively surface risks, trade-offs, and dependencies.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to shape roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Communicate clearly with leadership on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Align engineering execution with company-level goals and priorities.
- Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and career development plans.
- Set clear expectations around performance, behaviours, and growth.
- Hire and onboard engineers who raise the bar technically and culturally.
- Create a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-trust team environment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer (ideally full stack react/javascript/typescript).
- 2+ years experience managing and leading engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of modern full-stack systems in production.
- Experience delivering customer-facing products at scale.
- Proven ability to partner effectively with Product and Design.
- Hands-on experience with agile delivery and engineering best practices.
- Experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers.
- Ability to make sound technical and people decisions under ambiguity.
Benefits
- Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Flexibility: You’ll be able to work from home. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don’t mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year.
- Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our stellar growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region.
- Personal growth: You’ll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you’ll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There’s also a range of internal and external facing training programmes we run. We’re also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional.
- Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp. Since we started our journey in 2017, we’ve been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we’ve joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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