Brief info about Vinted

Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:

Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.

Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.

Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.

Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.

Information about the position

We are looking for an experienced and caring Engineering Manager to lead our Preorder Shipping team within the Purchase domain. Shipping is a business-critical pillar of the Vinted marketplace. Our team's mission is to make shipping options, rates, and pickup options incredibly seamless and reliable for millions of members across Europe during their preorder journey.

The Preorder Shipping team owns the core tech from the moment a seller uploads an item and selects a package size, to when a buyer chooses their preferred pickup point on a map at checkout. We are currently undergoing an exciting architectural evolution-migrating our core domain logic away from our legacy monolith into a modernized, service-oriented architecture (via our svc-shipping-estimation service) and deepening our integrations with the Vinted Go (VGo) logistics platform via API decoupling.

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional, highly collaborative team of Backend, Frontend (iOS, Android, Web), QA engineers and SDET. Total 10-12 direct reports. Working in a mature EPDA (Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics) setup alongside a Product Manager, Product Designer, and Decision Scientist, you will shape how millions of people experience shipping on Vinted.

In this position, you’ll

Delivery & Product Collaboration

Own Team Delivery: Be accountable for the delivery cycle time, sprint planning, and execution of preorder shipping features.
Empower the EPDA Sync: Partner closely with your Product Manager, Product Designer, and Decision Scientist to translate product vision and A/B test objectives (aligned with our Experimentation Manifesto) into clear, incremental technical deliverables.
Bridge to VGo: Manage the tight technical touchpoints, API contracts, and integration roadmaps with the Vinted Go platform team (carrier/rates configurations, Rate Recommender integrations).

Quality of Engineering & Architecture

Drive Service Decoupling: Drive the extraction of shipping-related capabilities (such as shipping address and phone) from our legacy monolith into our new domain service (svc-shipping-estimation).
Maintain Technical Excellence: Foster adherence to Vinted’s core engineering principles, ensuring that systems are scalable, performant, and monitored through robust SLIs/SLOs.
Manage Tech Debt: Strategically balance short-term product delivery speed with long-term code health, keeping technical debt visible and prioritized in the team’s backlog.
Incident Ownership: Ensure high availability of our critical checkout flows. Lead incident management within your scope, coordinating responses, writing post-mortems in VITA, and preventing future regressions.
Modern Quality Assurance: Foster a strong "shift-left" testing culture within the team. Empower your engineers to build systems that are "testable by design" and ensure we maintain a robust, layered test automation suite.

People Leadership & Culture

Nurture Growth: Provide dedicated mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship to engineers across different disciplines, helping them set SMART goals and advance their careers under the Vinted Career Level Framework (CLF).
Hiring & Staffing: Proactively identify staffing needs and drive the recruitment of new talent, maintaining Vinted's standards for hiring SLAs.
Foster Psychological Safety: Create an inclusive, diverse, and authentic team culture where feedback is shared openly, failures are treated as learning opportunities, and team health is actively monitored (via Peakon and DevEx).

About you

Experienced Engineering Leader: You have a proven track record of managing and scaling high-performing large software engineering teams in agile, fast-paced environments.
Leading Complex Initiatives: You have experience successfully driving complex, multi-quarter, or cross-functional technical initiatives from conception to delivery. You excel at navigating technical interdependencies, aligning multiple stakeholder teams, and managing risks and trade-offs.
Technical Foundation: You have a solid engineering background (we primarily use Ruby on Rails in the team, alongside Go in the wider domain). You are comfortable sparring with senior engineers on Domain-Driven Design (DDD), REST/gRPC API structures, and microservices extraction.
A Caring People-First Approach: You believe that a manager’s job is to enable others. You are passionate about people development, active listening, and conducting impactful 1:1s (PGIC framework).
Collaborative & Communicative: You are highly skilled at explaining complex technical limitations and trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders and aligning with external dependency teams.
Pragmatic Problem Solver: You prioritize long-term organizational goals over team preferences and make risk-calculated judgments based on data.

Work perks

The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
25 working days of holiday
Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
Private health insurance
Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
Frequent team-building events
A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
A dog-friendly office
In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The gross monthly salary range for this position is:

€6.658—€9.008 EUR

Engineering Manager, Purchase (Preorder Shipping)