Engineering Manager (Purchase, Messaging)

We are looking for an experienced and caring Engineering Manager to lead our Messaging team within the Purchase domain. Messaging is a critical pillar of the Vinted marketplace. Our team's mission is to make messaging seamless and reliable for millions of members across Europe during their preorder journey.

We are currently undergoing an exciting architectural evolution-migrating our core domain logic away from our legacy monolith into a modernized, service-oriented architecture (via our svc-messaging service).

At the same time, we’ll be improving messaging product, to make it more intuitive and user friendly.

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional, highly collaborative team of Backend, Frontend (iOS, Android, Web), QA engineers and SDET. Total 10-12 direct reports. Working in a mature EPDA (Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics) setup alongside a Product Manager, Product Designer, and Decision Scientist, you will shape how millions of people experience messaging on Vinted.

• Own Team Delivery: Be accountable for the delivery cycle time, dependency management, sprint planning, and execution of the Messaging team’s roadmap.
• Oversee Messaging Service Extraction: Directly manage extraction within the Messaging team, closely collaborate with the Negotiation team (which is also contributing to service extraction), and manage 30+ external dependencies across the Marketplace.
• Work on different streams: messaging service extraction from the monolith and messaging product improvements.
• Empower the EPDA: Partner closely with your Product Manager, Product Designer, and Decision Scientist to translate product vision and A/B test objectives (aligned with our Experimentation Manifesto) into clear, incremental technical deliverables.
• Manage Stakeholders at Scale: With 30+ external dependencies on the Marketplace side, this role requires creative, proactive stakeholder management to keep every dependency on track.
• Drive Service Decoupling: Lead the extraction of the messaging service from our legacy monolith into our new domain service.
• Maintain Technical Excellence: Foster adherence to Vinted’s core engineering principles, ensuring that systems are scalable, performant, and monitored through robust SLIs/SLOs.
• Manage Tech Debt: Strategically balance short-term product delivery speed with long-term code health, keeping technical debt visible and prioritized in the team’s backlog.
• Own Incident Management: Ensure high availability of our critical messaging flows. Lead incident management within your scope, coordinating responses, writing post-mortems, and preventing future regressions.
• Ensure Quality Assurance: Foster a strong "shift-left" testing culture within the team. Empower your engineers to build systems that are "testable by design" and ensure we maintain a robust, layered test automation suite.
• Nurture Growth: Provide dedicated mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship to engineers across different disciplines, helping them set SMART goals and advance their careers under the Vinted Career Level Framework (CLF).
• Hiring & Staffing: Proactively identify staffing needs and drive the recruitment of new talent, maintaining Vinted's standards for hiring SLAs.
• Foster Psychological Safety: Create an inclusive, diverse, and authentic team culture where feedback is shared openly, failures are treated as learning opportunities, and team health is actively monitored (via Peakon and DevEx).

• Experienced Engineering Leader: You have a proven track record of managing and scaling high-performing large software engineering teams in agile, fast-paced environments.
• Leading Complex Initiatives: You have experience successfully driving complex, multi-quarter, or cross-functional technical initiatives from conception to delivery. You excel at navigating technical interdependencies, aligning multiple stakeholder teams, and managing risks and trade-offs.
• Technical Foundation: You have a solid engineering background (we primarily use GoLang in the team). You are comfortable sparring with senior engineers on Domain-Driven Design (DDD), REST/gRPC API structures, and microservices extraction.
• A Caring People-First Approach: You believe that a manager’s job is to enable others. You are passionate about people development, active listening, and conducting impactful 1:1s.
• Collaborative & Communicative: You are highly skilled at explaining complex technical limitations and trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders and aligning with external dependency teams.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: You prioritize long-term organizational goals over team preferences and make risk-calculated judgments based on data.

• 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