Director of Engineering, Frontend technologies, Marketplace

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Frontend Technologies domain within Marketplace. In this role, your mission will be to architect and implement platform-specific changes that enhance modularity, autonomy, resilience, and performance across Android, iOS, and Web. You will oversee "Frontends as a Product," driving strategic engineering initiatives that directly impact business metrics and the end-user experience.

You will have to balance and prioritize foundational capabilities - such as Design Systems, CI/CD, Modularization, App Releases, Performance, and Global UI quality - to optimize both frontend developer velocity and user satisfaction.

You will lead 4 Engineering Managers and 3 Staff Engineers and be responsible for setting and implementing the FE strategy, which will impact the roadmaps of 9 Product domains within the Marketplace.

• Lead frontends: Lead a horizontal, platform-focused domain containing Android, iOS, Web, and Design system teams.
• Drive Technology Strategy: Set and drive the future technology strategy for frontends, establishing a modular, scalable architecture that enables rapid development and strategic growth.
• Lead Initiatives: Oversee Marketplace-wide technical tooling, core libraries, and frameworks. Lead strategic projects, i.e., frontend modularization and modernization (SwiftUI/Jetpack Compose), native automated testing.
• Elevate global UI quality: Integrate design systems and accessibility into the frontend ecosystem to consolidate technical, visual and interaction quality standards. Support UI experimentation.
• Ensure Resilience & Reliability: Maintain robust release processes, quality of Marketplace frontends, and performance monitoring to reduce downtime and ensure a consistent member experience.
• Innovate & Optimize: Drive AI-efficiency enablement in frontend development and explore cross-platform frontend development opportunities to increase engineering speed and productivity.
• Refine the domain's identity:Take sole ownership of shaping its future, successfully integrating Design Systems and engineering to treat our frontend platforms as a cohesive product.
• Influence without formal authority: Champion the frontend technical vision among your peers, influencing the leaders of 9 Product domains to accommodate and prioritize platform-wide changes across ~50 teams.

• Deep experience in Android, iOS, Web, or cross-platform development.
• An experienced leader with a strong sense of ownership across a wide range of responsibilities, including a track record (3+ years) of managing other leaders.

• 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
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• 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