Engineering Manager, Compute

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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 a highly skilled team at Vinted, which is responsible for our compute platform based on Kubernetes and Istio technologies. We run our managed clusters on high-end physical servers distributed across multiple data centers. We do thousands of deployments a day, provide ~300k CPU cores and ~1PB of memory.

In this position, you’ll

• Be responsible for the team's delivery management, quality of engineering, and setting/improving ways of working/processes.
• Build and maintain a team that trusts each other, cares about results, and is not afraid of conflict, commitment, and accountability.
• Set ambitious but realistic goals.
• Define clear priorities for your team, which currently consists of 8 Site Reliability Engineers.
• Focus on professional and personal growth of your team, conduct 1-1 meetings, performance and compensation reviews.
• Represent the team and its function inside and outside the company.
• Maintain working relationships with our partners and service providers to get the best service available.
• Identify opportunities for improvement to our infrastructure and build solutions to implement them.

About you

• Proven experience in leading infrastructure/platform teams at scale, with a track record of successful results.
• Empathy for people you lead.
• A good track record of consistent delivery for technical projects.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Open source software knowledge.
• Previous hands-on engineering experience would be a huge advantage.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Istio, containers, and distributed platforms is a huge plus.
• Fluency in English

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at friendly prices
• 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

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 € 6,258 - € 8,475 gross per month.