Senior Engineering Manager

Why Upway?

• Prioritize building great products. Make sure each team member navigates prioritization against business stakes: They decide with the PMs what gets built, what gets deferred, and when a tactical request takes precedence over roadmap work.
• Ensure each team member takes velocity, quality and risk of what the team ships as their responsibility, including stability of the online store and the back-office tools used daily by the operations teams.
• Stay close to the business: spend time with the reconditioning, logistics, customer service and local teams to understand their bottlenecks and turn them into the right engineering solutions.
• Lead and grow the team as the business justifies it: hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance and career development of each engineer.
• Partner with the Platform team and the Staff Engineers on architecture, technical standards and cross-team projects.
• Contribute to the engineering leadership team: organization design, engineering strategy, budget and hiring plan for 2027 and beyond.
• Keep technical depth to review designs, unblock engineers and challenge solutions, without being the main individual contributor.

• 8+ years in software engineering, of which 3+ years managing engineers, ideally a team of 6 to 10 engineers covering several product areas.
• A track record of delivering business results through a team, in a marketplace, e-commerce, logistics or operations-heavy environment.
• Comfort working with non-technical stakeholders: you can sit with an operations lead, understand the problem behind the request and come back with options and trade-offs.
• Experience with cycle-based planning (for example Shape Up) or a similar method, and with balancing several product areas and stakeholders on one roadmap.
• Strong hiring skills: sourcing, interviewing, closing and onboarding engineers.
• Enough hands-on experience with a modern backend language and relational data modeling to review system designs, challenge technical choices, and spot quality risks before they ship. Experience with TypeScript/Node.js or Shopify is a plus.
• Judgment on speed versus quality: you know when a quick fix is right and when the stakes call for more care.
• A bias for action, quick learning and long-term thinking.
• Comfort with a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Based in Paris or willing to relocate.

• Location: Paris (in person)
  
  
• Compensation: Market-level salary, highly competitive stock options. We aim for fair pay and sizable equity upside, aligning your success with the company’s.
  
  
• Travel: Regular travel to Germany, Belgium, and other UpCenters
  
  
• Language: English by default - we’re an international team. French is not required.
  
  
• Our Stack: TypeScript (NestJS + React) · Shopify for the online store · An internal back-office for operations · Python for data and automation · PostgreSQL · GCP infrastructure · Metabase for dashboards · Basecamp for project planning and tactical requests.