Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/n) – Payments & Checkout

InPost Group (Euronext: INPST) is Europe's leading out-of-home e-commerce delivery platform, operating over 50,000 automated parcel machines (APMs) and PUDO points across Poland, the UK, France, Italy, and Benelux. InPost processes tens of millions of transactions annually and offers a full e-commerce services layer. InPost Pay is its integrated checkout and payments product embedded directly into the merchant journey, with ambitions extending into digital wallets, embedded finance, and AI-assisted commerce, representing fintech at logistics scale.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership.
• Experience managing Engineering Managers and multi-team engineering organizations.
• Strong technical foundation as a Software Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern backend engineering practices.
• Experience working with cloud environments; Google Cloud is a strong advantage.
• Experience defining technical standards, SDLC processes, governance models, and engineering operating frameworks.
• Ability to translate engineering strategy into measurable business outcomes and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical background in the Java ecosystem (Spring Boot) or equivalent enterprise microservices stack (e.g., .NET/C#).
• Experience within a production environment.
• Experience operating in large-scale product organizations.
• Proven success in building and scaling engineering organizations through leaders.
• Experience implementing or scaling AI-enabled engineering practices and tools.
• Strong understanding of engineering metrics, KPIs, OKRs, and organizational performance management.
• Ability to use data and measurable outcomes to drive technology and organizational decisions.

Nice to have:

• Experience in fintech, digital payments, checkout platforms, or embedded finance products.
• Experience working in organizations building payment processing, commerce, digital wallet, or transaction-heavy platforms.
• Background in successful technology scale-ups that have rapidly grown products and engineering organizations.
• Experience in regulated crypto fintech such as crypto exchanges, digital asset custodians, or blockchain-based payment infrastructures under financial supervision (e.g., MiCA, FCA, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated impact of AI adoption on engineering velocity, developer experience, or software quality.
• Experience building management dashboards and using data analytics to drive strategic decisions.

• Drive the growth and scalability of technology teams supporting payment, checkout, and sales-related products.
• Lead an engineering organization of approximately 24–25 engineers across 3 teams: two led by Engineering Managers and one managed directly.
• Develop Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and senior engineering talent, building a strong leadership pipeline.
• Establish and maintain technical, architectural, and delivery standards across the domain.
• Shape technology strategy collaboratively with Product, Business, and Engineering stakeholders.
• Manage dependencies across teams ensuring high-quality delivery at scale.
• Identify and remove organizational and technical bottlenecks impacting product development and business outcomes.
• Define and drive the domain's AI adoption strategy to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and operational efficiency.
• Promote responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation across engineering teams while measuring business and engineering impact.
• Lead data-driven decision-making by defining, monitoring, and improving domain-level KPIs, OKRs, SLAs, and engineering performance metrics.
• Use engineering insights and metrics to continuously improve delivery effectiveness, platform reliability, team productivity, and customer outcomes.
• Represent the engineering organization in strategic initiatives and cross-functional leadership discussions.