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Upshop is the foremost provider of a SaaS platform designed to streamline forecasting, ordering, production, and inventory optimization processes for food retailers. Its unified platform simplifies and enhances associate tasks, promoting smarter and more interconnected operations across Fresh, Center, DSD, and eCommerce departments.
With over 450+ retailers and 50,000+ stores relying on its mission-critical operations platform globally, customers have witnessed substantial enhancements in sales, shrinkage reduction, food safety, and sustainability throughout their stores.
At Upshop, we believe that great businesses are built by great people. Our People function is at the heart of our company’s growth, ensuring we attract, develop, and retain A Players who drive our mission forward.
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and develop engineering teams responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable software aligned with business goals. This is a permanent, full-time position reporting to the VP of Software Engineering.
The Engineering Manager balances people leadership with technical oversight and selective hands-on contribution. This role is accountable for team performance, delivery predictability, engineering standards, and cross-functional collaboration while ensuring strong alignment with Upshop’s business and customer priorities.
Strong people management and leadership skills with the ability to coach, motivate, and develop high-performing teams.
Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP/OOD), functional programming, and N-Tier architectures.
Experience working with cloud-based, microservice-oriented systems.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong organizational, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Customer-, service-, and results-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Process-oriented and able to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
Experience & Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
6+ years of professional experience across the full software development lifecycle.
Experience with source control, pull requests, and code reviews using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
Experience working in agile development environments using tools such as JIRA and GitLab.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment automation.
Experience using DataDog or similar observability and monitoring tools.
Understanding of test-driven development (TDD) and testing frameworks such as PHPUnit, Jest, and Google Test.
Knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, command-line tools, and basic scripting (PowerShell, Bash).
Comfortable guiding teams in the use of AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor.
Ability to adapt to change and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Experience working with large enterprise software deployments and solution-based products.
Exposure to retail grocery, food retail, or large enterprise technology environments.
Experience working in cross-functional, fast-growing organizations.
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