Engineering Manager, Transactional Experience

Vinted

Vinted

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Kaunas, Lithuania
Posted on Dec 23, 2024

Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 20+ markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Transactional Experience (TX) domain within Vinted Product Engineering. Our domain’s mission is to set the right promise so members initiate the transactions and meet it by enabling them to succeed in buying and selling. From an engineering perspective, we aim to do so by maintaining strong data consistency guarantees, ensuring resilient payment & shipping orchestration and maintaining best-in-class performance. In a nutshell, we want to ensure that every transaction that can succeed, succeeds.

In this position, you’ll

Be accountable for:

  • People in the team (ensuring that we have great people working in true harmony)
  • Processes and procedures in a team (working in the right ways on the right things)
  • Delivery management (get stuff done)
  • Technologies in a team (including making some direct code contributions)

In practice, it means:

  • Work in a backend-centric team (±6 engineers that you would be leading) to extract key services related to order management from our monolithic core
  • Treat Reusable Capabilities as a Product. Apply the same rigour, processes, and mindset to their development and maintenance as you do for customer-facing features
  • Ensure the team’s delivery according to the quarterly roadmap
  • Focus on the professional and personal growth of your team and yourself, including conducting performance and compensation reviews
  • Work on the team’s maturity: a team of people who trust each other, are not afraid of conflict, are committed and accountable, care about results, and do a bunch of other great things

Your future fellow engineering managers in TX are defining what they do as follows:

  • “Taking care of the product team “machine” and making sure it goes smoothly: making sure it’s well maintained, deciding when we need new parts or upgrades, paving the road, removing obstacles on the way, etc.” - Marius
  • “Inspiring people to become better versions of themselves, sometimes letting them fall and helping them get up or finding a way to get up themselves” - Gediminas

Work perks

  • 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
  • A daily lunch allowance
  • 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

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 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 6,200 - € 8,383 gross per month.