Engineering Manager, Data Platform

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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.

Information About The Position
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Platform Experience team within Data Infrastructure. Our mission is to craft reliable infrastructure and user-centric tooling that makes data easy to trust, easy to use, and easy to find. The team builds and maintains core Data Platform components such as Jupyter Notebooks, the Data Catalog, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, and Looker. We also set standards for working with data, and we educate and reinforce a data-driven culture across Vinted.

As an Engineering Manager, you will have to grow, inspire, and lead your team to achieve set goals in the most efficient and reliable manner possible. Additionally, you will keep your team's vision and strategies up to date and effectively scale the vision, team, and operations as needed.

The team currently includes 4 Data Engineers who report directly to you and 3 Analytics Engineers who report to your peer, the Staff Analytics Engineer, with whom you co-lead the team.

In this position, you'll
Be accountable for:

• Results of the team (delivery management and quality of engineering).
• Efficient ways of working in the team (working on the right things in the right ways).
• People in the team (ensuring that we have great people working in true harmony).

In practice, it means:

• Collaborating with the Staff Engineer and Data Infrastructure leaders to create a clear vision for the data platform, while understanding user needs and developing aligned strategies.
• Defining initiatives and a roadmap focusing on strategic goals and ensuring their successful delivery.
• Actively working on improving the platform, enhancing its reliability, usability, and performance.
• Developing Service Level Objectives and a support model matching the platform's increasing criticality, ensuring reliability and quick resolution of issues.
• Effectively communicating progress and managing stakeholder expectations with transparent updates.
• Recognizing impediments to team efficiency and proposing and implementing solutions to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and delivery speed.
• Building and maintaining a team culture of trust, accountability, and results, while supporting team growth through performance and compensation reviews.
• Ensuring sufficient skills and capabilities in the team to support Vinted's growth.

About You

• You are self-driven, like to get things done, and done well.
• Have proven experience leading infrastructure/platform teams in an Agile environment, with a track record of successful results.
• Have the knowledge of data platforms and tooling, as well as data observability and governance concepts; ideally, experience with tools like Jupyter Notebooks, Data Catalog, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, Looker, or similar.
• Know how to effectively manage stakeholders, scope, priorities, and deliverables.
• You are a collaborative visionary capable of setting a clear direction and delivering motivating, incremental steps.
• Enhance team efficiency and build high-performing, self-organized teams while supporting people in overcoming challenges.
• Have experience in setting growth goals and facilitating personal development in your team.
• Possess the courage to address uncomfortable situations, manage conflicts, and make difficult decisions.
• Have solid proficiency in communicating with both technical and management levels in English.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• A daily lunch allowance
• ClassPass (Gym Membership subsidy)
• Pension plan with total contribution of 12%, 8% by the Company, and 4% by the employee
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• An NS mobility card
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on a 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 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
€
82
,700 - € 115,000
gross per year, with room for annual salary growth.

If this sounds interesting, you may well be just who we need. Apply, and we'll be in touch