At Oda, we develop affordable grocery services to make the logistics of living surprisingly easy. First we built Norway’s leading online grocery store and now, partnered with Mathem in Sweden, we’re on our way to becoming the world’s most effective grocery system, delivering to thousands of Scandinavian doorsteps every week.

As part of our team, you’ll work with smart, passionate colleagues who bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s a fast-moving, collaborative environment where everyone is welcome and everyone’s opinion matters. Whether you're shaping the future of online retail, tackling complex logistical problems, or making everyday life better for our customers, your work will have a real impact. Read on to find out what part you could play in our story.

Our world-class logistics and tech solutions allow us to reduce food waste, save time and money, and ease the mental and physical load for people who want more space for life.

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering Retail Platform to join Oda!

In this role, you will be a key leader in defining the technology and architectural future of our Retail Platform, which powers the online grocery experience for thousands of customers in Norway and Sweden.

You'll work side-by-side with Engineering Managers, Product Leads, and Executive stakeholders, focusing on developing a high-performing engineering organization and ensuring alignment between technical vision, product goals, and business strategy.

You will also be actively involved in guiding system architecture and execution across the platform, bringing your extensive technical expertise to deliver high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions that enable rapid company growth and market expansion.

To thrive in this role, we believe you're someone who excels at strategic technology leadership, capable of translating complex business needs into clear technical roadmaps and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. You're an exceptional communicator who builds strong partnerships across technical and executive audiences and is passionate about mentoring leaders to achieve shared success.

What you’ll be doing as Director of Engineering Retail Platform 💡

Strategic Technology Leadership & Vision

• Engineering Strategy: Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the Retail Platform, ensuring alignment with the overall company technology strategy, product goals, and business needs.

• Technical Vision: Establish and communicate a clear, long-term technical vision for the Retail Platform architecture, systems, and engineering practices.

• Innovation & Standards: Foster a culture of innovation, driving the adoption of best-in-class technologies and setting high engineering standards (e.g., performance, security, reliability, maintainability) across all Retail Platform teams.

Technical Execution & Excellence

• Delivery & Quality: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of all technology within the Retail Platform, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions are built and maintained.

• Architecture: Guide the system architecture decisions for the Retail Platform, ensuring technical debt is managed and future scalability requirements are met.

• Technology Enablement: Collaborate with the Director of Product Strategy & Operations, UX Lead, and Data Lead to ensure technology choices and engineering capacity effectively enable product and business strategies.

• Cross-Platform Collaboration: Work closely with other Engineering Directors and Platform Leads to ensure seamless integration and leveraging of shared technology components and standards.

People Leadership & Governance

• People Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of 25 people, including engineering managers and senior individual contributors, fostering a healthy, inclusive, and highly productive engineering culture.

• Resource Management: Manage resource allocation, capacity planning, and budgeting for the Retail Platform engineering team to ensure efficient execution against strategic priorities.

• Process Optimization: Continuously improve engineering processes, including development methodologies, deployment pipelines, and operational incident response, to maximize efficiency and reliability.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical point of contact for the Retail Platform, effectively communicating technical strategy, progress, and risks to the CTO, Chief Retail Platform, and other key stakeholders.

What you’ll need to succeed 🌟

• Extensive experience in software engineering and architecture, with a significant portion in a leadership capacity (e.g., Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, CTO in a smaller company or similar).

• Proven track record of defining and executing technology strategy and roadmaps for complex, high-scale platforms, ideally in an e-commerce, retail, or logistics domain.

• Deep technical expertise in building and operating reliable, scalable, and secure systems.

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring high-performing teams of engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

• Excellent understanding of modern software development methodologies and operational best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to drive technical excellence and foster a culture of continuous improvement in engineering standards, quality, and velocity.

• Proficiency in guiding system architecture decisions to balance technical debt, business needs, and future scalability.

• Strong strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to translate business goals into clear technical objectives.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of effectively articulating technical vision and progress to both technical and executive audiences.

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product management, design (UX), and data science leadership.

• A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering solutions that provide real business value and excellent user experience.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure.

• Ability to manage incident response and operational processes to ensure high system reliability and availability.

• Experience scaling technology and teams during periods of rapid company growth or market expansion.

What we offer 🚀

• A chance to make a real impact as a Director of Engineering in a fast-moving company with a product people love-while shaking up the grocery industry.

• Teammates who aim high and have each other’s backs. We care about people, and that means supporting each other every step of the way.

• A flat structure where we team up across disciplines to solve exciting challenges. Big ideas come from everywhere!

• A transparent way of working. We use Slack to stay in the loop-less email, fewer meetings, more getting things done.

• A buzzing office at Tøyen, with lunch made by our very own chefs. 🧑‍🍳

• A collaborative approach-we tackle exciting tech and product challenges together, across different fields.

• A chance to shape the future of grocery shopping while building a company that’s here to stay.

Practical Information

This is a permanent, full-time role, based at our modern offices in Tøyen, Oslo.

The application deadline is 19th April 2026, however, we will be reviewing applications continuously after Easter.

At Oda, you’ll join a passionate, ambitious team working to change the future of grocery shopping. We’re all different-just like you-and we wouldn’t have it any other way. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just let us know, and we’ll do our best to help. We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and want everyone to have an equal shot at landing the job. 🧡

We can’t wait to hear from you! 🧡