Engineering Manager

Relay is fundamentally reshaping how goods move in an online era. Backed by Europe’s largest-ever logistics Series A ($35M), led by deep-tech investors Plural (whose portfolio spans fusion energy and space exploration), Relay is scaling faster than 99.98% of venture-backed startups. We're assembling the most talent-dense team the logistics industry has ever seen

Relay’s Mission is to free commerce from friction. Today, high delivery costs act as a hidden tax on e-commerce, quietly shaping what can be sold online and limiting who can participate. We envision a world where more goods move more freely between more people, making the online shopping experience seamless and accessible to everyone.

THE TEAM
• ~110 people, more than half in engineering, product and data
• 45+ advanced degrees across computer science, mathematics and operations research
• Thousands of data points captured, calculated, analysed and predicted for every single parcel we handle
• An intellectually vibrant culture of first‑principles thinking, tight feedback loops and relentless experimentation

THE OPPORTUNITY

As an Engineering Manager, you are accountable for both leading the team and shipping outcomes. Your primary focus is building a team that executes well: setting clear direction, coaching engineers and tech leads, and ensuring work moves from idea to production reliably and at pace.

You stay close to the codebase. While this is not a full-time individual contributor role, you actively review meaningful changes, pair on complex problems, and step in on high-impact or time-sensitive work when needed. You understand the system deeply enough to make good technical calls, unblock the team, and raise the quality bar through example.

You run a team that owns what it builds. That means turning ambiguity into plans, plans into delivery, and delivery into real-world impact. You work tightly with Product, Design, and Operations to make tradeoffs explicit and keep the team focused on what ma...