Engineering Manager

About Us
Ingrid is a leading European startup that solves delivery optimization for retailers and customers. We partner with major carriers, cart platforms and brands you surely have heard of (DHL, InPost, Shopify, Paul Smith, NA-KD) - our customers love us.

About You
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who wants to be a part of our product mission and will drive the culture & execution of our engineering teams. It's a high ownership and high autonomy role, in which we need you to champion our engineering execution and AI usage adoption to a world-class level. It's a key role in our path to growth for our ambition is to expand presence to the global market, prove profitability and set "Ingrid" the synonym of delivery powered by AI. If you thrive for growth, want to adopt cutting edge technologies and modern leadership culture while working with people who love what they do every day and know their "why", read on

Qualification

• 2y+ experience as an engineering manager of 1-2 teams, 6-7 people, full management responsibility (recruiting, hiring, performance management, technical execution)
• 5y+ of former hands-on senior software engineer experience in modern SaaS startups/scale-ups
• Senior level technical engineering depth - full-stack, customer facing, large scale distributed systems, modern web architecture, infrastructure as a code
• Proficiency in coding (ability to leverage modern AI codegen is required), commercial experience with modern programming languages (Go, statically typed languages - .NET, Java)
• Proven track of delivering impactful technical solutions hands-on and through the team
• Experience working directly with stakeholders and customers, great technical communication, ability to deliver short term solutions while keeping long-term horizon
• Passion for great product, pragmatic design and amazing developer experience
• You deeply care about people and want the best for everyone around you
• You do not leave things unowned and do not wait for someone to ask you to do something - you have a history of proactive initiatives that you led to success, sometimes against all odds

Requirements

• The role is 50/50 of individual contributor work and technical leadership role
• Individual contributor: staying on top of daily execution and being close to technical execution, navigate team through technical unknowns partnering with principal engineers, acting as a strong senior engineer if needed, across the full stack, from design to infrastructure, while championing AI usage for productivity
• Technical leadership: strategical thinking, have a product mindset and ability to empower the team with trust, passion and drive, partner up with and influence the principal/staff guild
• Own all aspects of team's technical execution (planning, prototyping, timelines, deliverables, launch, observability, maintenance, customer love)
• Translating overarching product and technical vision and form a strategy for the team(s) with OKRs, roadmaps and tech specs
• Shaping engineering organisation by identifying bottlenecks, opportunities and full hiring and performance management cycle of the team(s)
• Experience partnering with product and design team to come up with effective milestones and deliver value to our customers in weeks, not months through technical innovation (API-first products, self-service, data intelligence)

What We Offer

• High trust & transparency, low control environment
• Competitive market pay and benefits (depending on the location)
• Meaningful work every single day that challenges the industry and is just fun
• Hack culture and regular hackathons, retreats & offsites (travel involved)
• Partnering with best in class engineering, product and commercial folks that you can learn from
• Modern equipment, tools and premium AI licences
• Freedom of how you organize your work, overlap with work hours (9-17 CET) is required for effective real-time collaboration
• Two offices - Stockholm and Wroclaw with snacks and good coffee