engineering manager

Vinted Group operates a second-hand marketplace, shipping services, and payment services across Europe. Its marketplace connects members buying and selling pre-loved items, Vinted Go supports shipping through a network of pick-up and drop-off points and carrier partnerships, and Vinted Pay provides integrated payments.

• Lead and develop a team of 5+ infrastructure engineers, including individual goal setting, regular feedback, and quarterly performance reviews
• Create individual career development plans, mentor engineers, and support team growth
• Monitor team health, delivery velocity, and operational workload to prevent burnout and maintain a sustainable pace
• Create, refine, and take accountability for operational procedures, agile workflows, incident response routines, and on-call practices
• Unblock engineers, resolve cross-team dependencies, and foster collaboration with peer platform teams
• Participate in engineering management rituals, organizational planning, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Oversee team execution, capacity planning, and hiring as the team expands
• Work with the Staff Engineer and TPM to turn technical strategy into roadmaps, team priorities, and predictable delivery
• Communicate service expectations, SLAs, and roadmap visibility to internal stakeholders and development teams
• Ensure the team delivers eventually consistent systems that synchronize data across cross-Atlantic markets while maintaining performance
• Support the team's and own professional and personal growth, including conducting performance and compensation reviews

• Experience managing, coaching, and developing software and/or infrastructure engineering teams, with a track record of delivering results
• Strong understanding of goal-setting frameworks, performance review cycles, continuous feedback, and engineers' career growth pathways
• Ability to collaborate in a leadership triad with a Staff Engineer on technical decisions and a TPM on program execution
• Skills in creating structured workflows, clarifying team ownership, facilitating constructive discussions, and managing stakeholder expectations
• Commitment to people development, psychological safety, a healthy on-call culture, and team satisfaction
• Knowledge of high-level software engineering and platform concepts, with the ability to communicate with technical specialists without hands-on work
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Будет плюсом: Experience in platform, infrastructure, SRE, or cloud organizations; experience with Apache Kafka or similar platforms; experience establishing or improving on-call rotations, incident post-mortem processes, or service-level management

• Annual gross salary range excluding 8% holiday pay: €100.300—€121.400 EUR
• Share options programme
• 25 Days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for the employee and their family
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support, including IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• Personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for commuting to the office by public transport
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• Dog-friendly office
• Workation policy: up to 90 remote-work days per year in the EU, including 21 days globally; for non-EU citizens, 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with vacation or personal time
• Individual learning budget starting at €3,000 per year, plus up to 10 working days over a 2-year period for personal and professional development
• Hybrid model with 2 recommended office days a week; teams can decide if and when to work from home and when to meet in person