Manager Engineering

Empowered to live. Inspired to work. Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities.

Benefits

, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

e. ) Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

except for state-mandated programs. com/careers . This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% remote and is open to any Compeer office location.

The contributions you will make: This position is responsible for building, leading, and evolving high-performing software engineering teams accountable for delivering scalable, resilient, and high-quality technology solutions aligned to organizational priorities. Operates as both a technical leader and people leader, fostering a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement through coaching, mentorship, and talent development. Accountable for team-level technical direction, architecture alignment, and execution quality, this role guides engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, optimizes delivery flow, removes impediments, and supports adoption of modern engineering practices and technologies including cloud-native development, automation, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity, quality, and delivery effectiveness.

A typical day: Build and lead a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, performance management, workforce planning, coaching, talent development, and oversight of third-party engineering resources as needed to ensure delivery of team objectives and continued growth of engineering capability. Ensure consistent delivery of technology solutions by establishing priorities, removing blockers, managing dependencies, coordinating internal and thirdparty resources, and maintaining accountability for delivery commitments, quality, and execution outcomes.

Requirements

Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence by strengthening team effectiveness, addressing friction points, and supporting organizational change initiatives. Partner with product, business, and technology stakeholders to align priorities, provide input on feasibility and capacity, and support delivery of business objectives through effective cross-team coordination. Improve team-level processes, workflows, and engineering practices to enhance delivery effectiveness, predictability, quality, and operational efficiency.

The skills and experience we prefer you have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience required.