About
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.
Responsibilities
•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
Requirements
•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
Nice to have
•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
Benefits
•Annual gross salary range excluding 8% holiday pay: €100,300—€121,400
•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. 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
