Engineering at Vinted is divided into Infrastructure and Product. This position is for Product Engineering, where teams develop new features from start to finish and roll them out to all our members or internal users. We work in an EPDA (engineering, product, design, and analytics) structure, and engineering in the teams is represented by engineering managers who will report to you. 

We’re looking for the Director of Engineering who would contribute to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice by leading the Order domain.

In this role, you would tackle the versatile challenges ahead, namely:

• Product challenges: We collaborate with multiple stakeholders to manage the complex process that occurs after purchase, from delivery to payment completion, addressing diverse member needs and numerous different scenarios. Our goal is to ensure each order becomes a successful transaction for both buyers and sellers. We achieve this through continuous flow improvements, issue prevention, and efficient self-resolution tools. The Order domain is central to Vinted's growth initiatives, supporting expansions into new countries, categories, and new services. 
• Technical challenges: Extracting owned context from a monolithic architecture into services, while ensuring uninterrupted product development. This involves expertly managing complex dependencies and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to maintain alignment. The majority of our code is transitioning from Ruby to Golang to utilize its advantages in performance and scalability. As these services are built and extracted, our three frontend platforms need to adapt seamlessly to support these backend transformations, ensuring a smooth and consistent user experience.
• Organizational challenges: The domain includes five teams—four cross-functional and one platform—at different maturity levels. While recent reorganization increased total domain capacity, it also introduced short-term complexity: some leaders are in double roles, covering for missing people, which is not sustainable. A newly added team is integrating, while another works outside the core Order context, impacting alignment. The platform team has a unique setup with Engineering and Technical Program Managers. We seek a Director of Engineering to improve collaboration, workflows, and delivery management in this evolving setup.

• Miglė Butkevičė: “fast-paced, ever-changing environment + complex flows with numerous variations - that's what keeps me excited!! Not a single boring day here.”
• Anna Kaminskienė: “I love the challenge of navigating the complexities of 3 business units, various carriers, payment systems, regulations, and categories to meet diverse user needs. Effort always pays off greatly when you see how you have simplified the lives of millions of users.”
• Miglė Capė: “I am at my best when solving really important questions that make a difference, and the Order domain has plenty of them!”
• Edvinas Raguckas: “I thrive in the stretch zone - where complexity is high, stakes are real, and the impact reaches across teams and markets. It’s not easy work, but it’s the kind that drives lasting change.”
• Gediminas Kalaušis: “recognizing that by guiding the team to success, I can positively impact millions of people across Europe. 

• Create, align, and execute the domain’s vision and strategy together with the rest of the domain leadership (Product Management, Design, and Data Science & Analytics).
• Ensure that engineering in your domain enables the achievement of the domain vision while meeting Vinted-wide engineering principles.
• Be accountable for domain delivery management while balancing competing deliverables (tech strategy vs business initiatives).
• Search for organizational efficiency all the time (processes and procedures between the teams, change management, talent development, team member experience, overall domain budget).
• Lead and support your team of 4-6 Engineering Managers and a Staff Engineer. Focus on their professional and personal development to ensure high team performance.

• Strong experience in leading leaders is a must, including proven expertise in change management and the ability to elevate engineering leadership standards.
• Must possess influential leadership to motivate and support team growth at the director level.
• A confident, direct, and decisive personality with robust problem-solving capabilities. 
• Ability to define and shape the technical vision and strategy.
• Expertise in thriving within fast-paced environments and effectively managing frequent changes and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder management, negotiation, and effectively pitching ideas to maintain organizational alignment.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, attentive to others, open to feedback, and capable of forming independent opinions.
• Proficiency in optimizing organizational efficiency through change management, refining processes and procedures, and fostering a "get stuff done" (GSD) culture.
• Alignment with the company value of "we care," demonstrating attentiveness to others and fostering meaningful connections.

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Never ending snacks and monthly lunch benefit
• Private health insurance
• 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

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 salary range for this position is € 7,758- € 10,492 gross per month.