Senior Engineering Manager Shipping Services (mfn)

What Youll Do

• Manage delivery across multiple engineering teams or an entire domain defining delivery standards and ensuring consistency quality and velocity across teams.
• Report to C-level stakeholders on progress risks and business impact translating engineering outcomes into business language and strategic recommendations.
• 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.
• Define architecture and technical standards for the domain (or the wider tech organization) collaborating closely with Staff Software Engineers on key architectural decisions.
• Own platform and infrastructure strategy for the domain driving technical consistency across teams and reduction of technical debt.
• Define the domains AI adoption strategy represent the domain in the AI Steering Committee/AI Hub measure AI ROI and help shape the organizations AI Playbook.
• 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.
• Build a high-performance inclusive engineering culture escalating difficult personnel situations appropriately to HR and senior leadership.
• Shape recruitment and process standards actively attract talent through employer branding and professional networks and manage the domains organizational structure (team sizing roles dependencies).
• Communicate strategy and progress to C-level manage cross-domain dependencies and build relationships with key business stakeholders; represent InPost Tech externally (conferences partnerships).
• Build a feedback and learning culture through systematic mechanisms (360 pulse surveys retrospectives) and translate feedback into domain-level action plans.
• Sponsor and lead cross-team/cross-domain initiatives (architectural reviews workshops) and actively participate in or lead communities of practice.
• Shape innovation direction for the domain manage a portfolio of innovation initiatives (AI new platforms experimentation) and contribute to Group-level technology strategy.

Qualifications :

Experience

• 10 years of overall experience in Software Development / Engineering Leadership. Youll be leading experienced Engineering Managers so this seniority is essential.
• 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.
• Hands-on background as a software engineer earlier in your career (even if it was several years ago).

Knowledge & Skills

• Proven experience managing Engineering Managers with a deep understanding of domain-level delivery SDLC standards and technical architecture principles.
• 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 domains engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms - Google Cloud strongly preferred; AWS or Azure exposure is also valued.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns (microservices event-driven API-first).
• Experience with OKR/KPI frameworks and domain-level metrics.
• Demonstrated impact of AI adoption on engineering velocity and product quality.
• Proficiency in Agile SAFe or equivalent scaled delivery frameworks.

Core Competencies

• Ability to communicate technical strategy to C-level and board-level stakeholders.
• Expertise in people development - career paths performance management and succession planning.
• Strong understanding of AI adoption frameworks AI governance and data security.
• Proven track record of building high-performing inclusive engineering cultures.

Leadership & Organizational Skills

• Strategic thinking and long-term planning.
• Conflict resolution and organizational influence.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management.
• Employer branding and talent acquisition at domain level.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Background in e-commerce or logistics - not required but it will help you ramp up on the domain faster.
• Experience at a product-based company
• Experience with P&L ownership and budget management.
• Knowledge of AI/ML platforms and emerging technology trends.
• Experience in board or executive advisory roles.
• Experience representing a technology organization externally (partnerships industry forums); published thought leadership or conference speaking experience.

Additional Information :

Why Join InPost 

• Opportunity to work in a diverse international and cross-functional environment along with leading experts. 
• You work and learn from a senior leader and their leadership team expanding your experience and exposure in the e-commerce and logistics industries. 
• InPost is a growing company that offers its people an increasing number of opportunities in several locations in Europe. 
• Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for people and investing in providing training opportunities for their development. 
• You will feel a part of the InPost community that makes an impact on sustainability convenient deliveries and the circular economy every day. 
• Excellent working environment and flexible hours
• We offer B2B type of contract

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time