Director of Engineering, Order (Limited-time Relocation Bonus)

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. 

Position

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. A platform team, focusing on service extraction, is integrating, while another mainly works outside the core Order context, impacting the team identity. 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.

Who will you work with?

• Arnas: “My favorite work happens where engineering constraints and product ambition sit at the same table and argue honestly. I'd rather aim high, miss, and say so — than aim safe and dress it up.”
• Anna: “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.”
• Živilė: ‘For me, the most exciting thing at Vinted is its operating model where all functions operate in sync, making it easy to understand perspectives beyond your own scope and co-create the most efficient solutions at all times.”
• Gediminas: “recognizing that by guiding the team to success, I can positively impact millions of people across Europe. 
• Toma: Continuously balancing engineering challenges with product development in the Order domain - while leading the team toward creating meaningful impact - is exactly the kind of challenge that keeps me motivated and driven.
• Arminas: “I love turning complex systems into simple ones. That includes both software architecture and human systems.”
• Edvinas: “I love data over opinions. Being part of a company that values evidence over guesswork makes every decision meaningful and impactful.”
• Ieva: “I value the bigger meaning behind what my team and I build every day. Contributing to Vinted’s success through our high-standard delivery and a mature mindset is what drives me.”

In this position, you’ll 

• 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.

Your qualification

• 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.

What we offer

• 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
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• 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
• Joining us from outside Lithuania? You're eligible for our Limited-time Relocation Package! It includes a €30k gross bonus and 2 months of temporary housing (check for more info)

Additional details

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.

This position is based in Lithuania, and if you're not (yet) don't worry! We're here to help you settle in with premium relocation assistance and a generous €30,000 gross bonus. If you feel that Vinted is your perfect cultural fit—apply! For more info, refer to our Relocation page.

The gross monthly salary range for this position is:

€8.075—€10.925 EUR