Senior Engineering Manager

Upway; Paris; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Location: Paris (in person)

Stock options

Annual bonus potential

Job summary

Upway is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Ops & Demand engineering team in Paris. You will oversee a group of engineers and two Product Managers, shaping architecture, priorities, and delivery for reconditioning, logistics, inventory, and customer service tooling.

You will partner with Platform and Staff Engineers on architecture, drive engineering strategy, and manage budgets and hiring plans for 2027 and beyond, while ensuring velocity, quality, and stability of the online

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering and 3+ years of people management.
• Proven track record delivering business results in marketplace/e-commerce/logistics.
• Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders and translate requests into options.
• Experience with cycle-based planning and balancing multiple product areas on one roadmap.
• Strong hiring, interviewing, and onboarding skills.
• Hands-on backend experience and ability to review architectures and data models.
• Familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js; Shopify experience is a plus.
• Judgment on speed vs quality; bias for action and long-term thinking.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize building great products, aligning with PMs on what gets built and when.
• Ensure velocity, quality, and risk are owned by the team; maintain store and back-office stability.
• Engage with operations teams to understand bottlenecks and translate them into engineering solutions.
• Lead recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and career development of engineers.
• Partner with Platform team and Staff Engineers on architecture and standards.
• Contribute to engineering leadership through strategy, budgets, and hiring plans for 2027+.
• Provide technical depth for reviews while not acting as main IC.

Skills

8+ years experience

3+ years managing engineers

team leadership 6-10 engineers

stakeholder management

cycle-based planning (Shape Up)

hiring skills

backend experience

TypeScript/Node.js

Shopify experience

fast-paced environment

Tools

Shopify

NestJS

React

Python

PostgreSQL

GCP

Metabase

Basecamp

Job description

Job Description

We are looking for a senior Engineering Manager to lead our Ops & Demand engineering team, the engineers who build the tools our operations teams run on (reconditioning, logistics, inventory, customer service) and the Shopify online store our customers buy from. The team has 6 engineers and two Product Managers, one for Ops and one for Demand, and will grow as the business does.

Department

Engineering

Location

Paris

Why Upway?

Because we're not just building tech - we're redefining how mobility works in the circular economy. You'll join an ambitious, fast-moving team backed by world-class investors, with the opportunity to architect a platform that touches millions of people and shapes the future of sustainable transportation.

We are looking for a manager who understands the business first, who holds a high bar on quality, and who can set the pace of the team according to what is at stake.

What you will do

• 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.

What skills we are looking for

• 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.
• 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.

French speaking is not a requirement and non-french speakers are encouraged to apply to this position.

Benefits

• 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.