Engineering Manager

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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.

Role Overview

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 2026‑2027 – our ambition is to expand presence to the global market, prove profitability and set “Ingrid” the synonym of delivery powered by AI.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as an engineering manager of 1‑2 teams (6‑7 people), full management responsibility (recruiting, hiring, performance management, technical execution)
• 5+ years 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 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 record of delivering impactful technical solutions hands‑on and through the team
• Experience working directly with stakeholders and customers, excellent technical communication, ability to deliver short‑term solutions while keeping a long‑term horizon
• Passion for great product, pragmatic design and amazing developer experience
• Deep care about people and a desire to do the best for everyone around you
• History of proactive initiatives, ownership and success, sometimes against all odds

Requirements

• The role is 50/50 between individual contributor work and technical leadership
• Individual contributor: stay on top of daily execution, be close to technical execution, navigate the team through technical unknowns, partnering with principal engineers, acting as a strong senior engineer if needed across the full stack and championing AI usage for productivity
• Technical leadership: strategical thinking, product mindset, empower the team with trust, passion and drive, partner and influence principal/staff guilds
• Own all aspects of the team’s technical execution (planning, prototyping, timelines, deliverables, launch, observability, maintenance, customer love)
• Translate overarching product and technical vision into a strategy for the team(s) with OKRs, roadmaps and tech specs
• Shape engineering organisation by identifying bottlenecks, opportunities, and managing the full hiring and performance cycle of the team(s)
• Partner with product and design teams to deliver value to 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 day that challenges the industry and is fun
• Hack culture and regular hackathons, retreats & offsites (travel involved)
• Opportunity to learn from best‑in‑class engineering, product and commercial folks
• Modern equipment, tools and premium AI licences
• Freedom to organize your work; overlap with work hours (9‑17 CET) required for effective real‑time collaboration
• Two offices – Stockholm and Wroclaw with snacks and good coffee