Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs.
We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space.
We operate 3 business segments:
- Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with ~5% market share of all new business incorporations
- Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service
- FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses
Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 500 staff with an intact startup mindset.
We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia-Pacific.
Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Singapore.
Requirements
We are looking for someone that is excited about the below Mission and Outcomes over the next 6-12 months.
Mission:
At Sleek, we are on a mission to streamline operations and elevate customer experience through intelligent automation and modern engineering. We are seeking an Engineering Manager who will be responsible for leading, growing, and empowering high-performing product engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that directly advances Sleek’s business objectives. This role translates product vision and company strategy into clear technical direction, strong execution plans, and predictable delivery outcomes. You will be accountable for engineering quality, operational excellence, team health, and long-term sustainability, while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Acting as a key bridge between product, design, business, and technology, you will ensure alignment across disciplines and help turn complex problems into simple, impactful solutions for our customers.
Key outcomes in the next 6-12 month:
1. Team & Delivery
- 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.
2. Technical Leadership
- 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.
3. Execution & Process
- 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.
4. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- 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.
5. People Development
- 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.
To do this you will have:
- 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.
Behavioural fit is also important at Sleek, and we will be looking for candidates that have a proven track record of embodying the below attributes in their recent roles:
Ownership: This shows reliability and helps build trust within the team. We move fast and need to know that everyone will see things through to completion and proactively help to get things back on track when challenges arise. Accountability is really important to us.
Humility: There is so much we don’t know. Humility allows for open-mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others. It paves the way for collaboration and creates a positive work environment. It is a key ingredient of self awareness and emotional intelligence.
Structured Thinking: Our business is complex with many layers (many services, many countries, many cultures). Regardless of whether you’re more analytical or creative in nature, being able to show sound judgement is important to us. It ensures solutions are pragmatic and balance the needs of the organisation, team and customers.
A great listener: You make internal stakeholders and executives feel genuinely heard and understood. You communicate in a calm, thoughtful, and attentive manner, creating space for different perspectives. You listen without interrupting, ask clarifying questions, and work collaboratively to understand needs, align priorities, and drive effective outcomes.
Can have tough conversations in a positive way: It’s not a matter of if, but when difficult interpersonal situations arise. Disagreement, conflict and disappointment are a given in a fast moving business where people care about their work. People that proactively have tough conversations with kindness build empathy, trust and great working relationships.
About the Interview Process
The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages.
It might seem like a lot - but fear not - we come prepared! We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish depending on your availability.
Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role.
HR Screening
A Quick Call with our Talent Acquisition Lead
Case study/ Technical Round
A ~90 minute live test/ case study presentation
Final Round
A ~60 minute soft skills and behavioural interview with Chris our CTO
References checks & Offer
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Requirement for background screening
Please be aware that Sleek is a regulated entity and as such is required to perform different levels of background checks on staff depending on their role.
This may include using external vendors to verify the below:
- Your education
- Any criminal history
- Any political exposure
- Any bankruptcy or adverse credit history
We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks. Depending on your role at Sleek, an adverse result on one of these checks may prohibit you from passing probation.
By submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Data Privacy Statement for Candidates, found at sleek.com.
Benefits
Some other great things about working at Sleek…
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.
