SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER - SHIPPING SERVICES (M/F/N)

Inpost

Full-timesenior

Job description

What You'll Do<ul><li>Manage delivery across multiple engineering teams or an entire domain, defining delivery standards and ensuring consistency, quality, and velocity across teams.</li><li>Report to C-level stakeholders on progress, risks, and business impact, translating engineering outcomes into business language and strategic recommendations.</li><li>Own domain-level SDLC governance: align standards across teams while enabling each team to own its practices, eliminate systemic organizational blockers, and define domain-level OKRs, KPIs, and SLAs.</li><li>Define architecture and technical standards for the domain (or the wider tech organization), collaborating closely with Staff Software Engineers on key architectural decisions.</li><li>Own platform and infrastructure strategy for the domain, driving technical consistency across teams and reduction of technical debt.</li><li>Define the domain's AI adoption strategy, represent the domain in the AI Steering Committee/AI Hub, measure AI ROI, and help shape the organization's AI Playbook.</li><li>Coach and develop Engineering Managers, build a talent pipeline across all levels (including Staff Engineers and future EMs), and design career paths and development programs.</li><li>Build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture, escalating difficult personnel situations appropriately to HR and senior leadership.</li><li>Shape recruitment and process standards, actively attract talent through employer branding and professional networks, and manage the domain's organizational structure (team sizing, roles, dependencies).</li><li>Communicate strategy and progress to C-level, manage cross-domain dependencies, and build relationships with key business stakeholders; represent InPost Tech externally (conferences, partnerships).</li><li>Build a feedback and learning culture through systematic mechanisms (360°, pulse surveys, retrospectives) and translate feedback into domain-level action plans.</li><li>Sponsor and lead cross-team/cross-domain initiatives (architectural reviews, workshops), and actively participate in — or lead — communities of practice.</li><li>Shape innovation direction for the domain, manage a portfolio of innovation initiatives (AI, new platforms, experimentation), and contribute to Group-level technology strategy.</li></ul> Experience<ul><li>10+ years of overall experience in Software Development / Engineering Leadership. You'll be leading experienced Engineering Managers, so this seniority is essential.</li><li>Proven experience managing managers (manager-of-managers model) - must have led at least 2 or more teams through other Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors.</li><li>Hands-on background as a software engineer earlier in your career (even if it was several years ago).</li></ul>Knowledge & Skills<ul><li>Proven experience managing Engineering Managers, with a deep understanding of domain-level delivery, SDLC standards, and technical architecture principles.</li><li>Hands-on technical background in Java and Spring Boot is required, along with solid exposure to backend databases - this is the core stack used across the domain's engineering teams.</li><li>Experience with cloud platforms - Google Cloud strongly preferred; AWS or Azure exposure is also valued.</li><li>Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, API-first).</li><li>Experience with OKR/KPI frameworks and domain-level metrics.</li><li>Demonstrated impact of AI adoption on engineering velocity and product quality.</li><li>Proficiency in Agile, SAFe, or equivalent scaled delivery frameworks.</li></ul>Core Competencies<ul><li>Ability to communicate technical strategy to C-level and board-level stakeholders.</li><li>Expertise in people development - career paths, performance management, and succession planning.</li><li>Strong understanding of AI adoption frameworks, AI governance, and data security.</li><li>Proven track record of building high-performing, inclusive engineering cultures.</li></ul>Leadership & Organizational Skills<ul><li>Strategic thinking and long-term planning.</li><li>Conflict resolution and organizational influence.</li><li>Executive-level communication and stakeholder management.</li><li>Employer branding and talent acquisition at domain level.</li><li>Exceptional leadership and mentoring skills, strategic thinking, strong executive communication and influencing capabilities, resilience, empathy, adaptability, clear communication, initiative, organizational agility, and a strong drive for building inclusive, high-performance engineering cultures.</li></ul>Nice to have<ul><li>Background in e-commerce or logistics - not required, but it will help you ramp up on the domain faster.</li><li>Experience at a product-based company</li><li>Experience with P&L ownership and budget management.</li><li>Knowledge of AI/ML platforms and emerging technology trends.</li><li>Experience in board or executive advisory roles.</li><li>Experience representing a technology organization externally (partnerships, industry forums); published thought leadership or conference speaking experience.</li></ul> Why Join InPost? <ul><li>Opportunity to work in a diverse, international, and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts. </li><li>You work and learn from a senior leader and their leadership team, expanding your experience and exposure in the e-commerce and logistics industries. </li><li> InPost is a growing company that offers its people an increasing number of opportunities in several locations in Europe. </li><li>Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for people and investing in providing training opportunities for their development. </li><li>You will feel a part of the InPost community that makes an impact on sustainability, convenient deliveries, and the circular economy every day. </li><li>Excellent working environment and flexible hours</li><li>We offer B2B type of contract</li></ul>