Director of Engineering, Order (Limited-time Relocation Bonus)

Engineering at Vinted is divided into Infrastructure and Product. This position is for Product Engineering, where teams develop new features from start to finish and roll them out to all our members or internal users. We work in an EPDA (engineering, product, design, and analytics) structure, and engineering in the teams is represented by engineering managers who will report to you.

We’re looking for the Director of Engineering who would contribute to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice by leading the Order domain.

In this role, you would tackle the versatile challenges ahead, namely:

• Product challenges: We collaborate with multiple stakeholders to manage the complex process that occurs after purchase, from delivery to payment completion, addressing diverse member needs and numerous different scenarios. Our goal is to ensure each order becomes a successful transaction for both buyers and sellers. We achieve this through continuous flow improvements, issue prevention, and efficient self-resolution tools. The Order domain is central to Vinted's growth initiatives, supporting expansions into new countries, categories, and new services.
• Technical challenges: Extracting owned context from a monolithic architecture into services, while ensuring uninterrupted product development. This involves expertly managing complex dependencies and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to maintain alignment. The majority of our code is transitioning from Ruby to Golang to utilize its advantages in performance and scalability. As these services are built and extracted, our three frontend platforms need to adapt seamlessly to support these backend transformations, ensuring a smooth and consistent user experience.
• Organizational challenges: The domain includes five teams—four cross-functional and one platform—at different maturity levels. A platform team, focusing on service extraction, is integrating, while another mainly works outside the core Order context, impacting the team identity. The platform team has a unique setup with Engineering and Technical Program Managers. We seek a Director of Engineering to improve collaboration, workflows, and delivery management in this evolving setup.

In this position, you’ll

• Create, align, and execute the domain’s vision and strategy together with the rest of the domain leadership (Product Management, Design, and Data Science & Analytics).
• Ensure that engineering in your domain enables the achievement of the domain vision while meeting Vinted-wide engineering principles.
• Be accountable for domain delivery management while balancing competing deliverables (tech strategy vs business initiatives).
• Search for organizational efficiency all the time (processes and procedures between the teams, change management, talent development, team member experience, overall domain budget).
• Lead and support your team of 4-6 Engineering Managers and a Staff Engineer. Focus on their professional and personal development to ensure high team performance.

• Strong experience in leading leaders is a must, including proven expertise in change management and the ability to elevate engineering leadership standards.
• Must possess influential leadership to motivate and support team growth at the director level.
• A confident, direct, and decisive personality with robust problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to define and shape the technical vision and strategy.
• Expertise in thriving within fast-paced environments and effectively managing frequent changes and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder management, negotiation, and effectively pitching ideas to maintain organizational alignment.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, attentive to others, open to feedback, and capable of forming independent opinions.
• Proficiency in optimizing organizational efficiency through change management, refining processes and procedures, and fostering a "get stuff done" (GSD) culture.
• Alignment with the company value of "we care," demonstrating attentiveness to others and fostering meaningful connections.

• 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
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• 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
• Joining us from outside Lithuania? You're eligible for our Limited-time Relocation Package! It includes a 30k gross bonus and 2 months of temporary housing (check for more info)