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About the Role

Vinted is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to build, lead, and evolve the newly created Platform organization. This role is crucial for accelerating product delivery across engineering by providing foundational infrastructure, frameworks, and developer workflows. The mission is to enable product teams to move faster with higher quality through opinionated golden paths and standardized architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

Define and continuously evolve a clear Platform vision, strategy, and operating model.
Establish Platform as a curated internal product, not a utility service.
Clearly articulate Platform ownership versus Product team ownership.
Own adoption, evolution, and migration strategies for platform capabilities.
Build and lead the Platform organization, adapting its shape as needed.
Hire, develop, and retain senior engineering leaders and staff-level engineers.
Foster a culture of strong product thinking, accountability, and stewardship.
Act as a senior partner to Product Engineering leaders.
Establish clear engagement models between Platform and Product teams.

Requirements

12+ years of engineering experience, including significant time leading large, multi-team engineering organizations.
Proven experience building or operating internal platforms or developer-facing infrastructure at scale.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, modern cloud infrastructure, and software architecture.
Track record of driving non-trivial change and adoption at scale.
Experience working closely with product organizations and senior business stakeholders.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping new organizational models.
Ability to think in systems and understand how organizational design, incentives, and architecture interact.
Ability to interact and be trusted by technical leaders and senior engineers, as well as product leaders.

Location

Vilnius

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

€152.100—€205.700 EUR

Benefits

Share options programme
30 days of paid annual leave
Newest MacBook models
Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Home office support (IT workstation equipment and personal budget for furniture)
Daily lunch allowance
Frequent team-building events
Personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
Subsidised gym membership
Subsidised pension plan
Hallesche Supplemental health insurance
Life and disability insurance
Subsidised Deutschlandticket
Opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year on workation (21 days outside EU)
Dog-friendly office
Individual Learning Budget

About the Company

Vinted's mission is to make second-hand the first choice.
The Vinted Group consists of Vinted Marketplace (Europe’s leading second-hand fashion platform), Vinted Go (enhancing shipping experience), and Vinted Pay (secure payment solutions).
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted became Lithuania's first unicorn in 2019.
Headquartered in Vilnius, Vinted has offices across Europe with over 2,000 employees.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging.
Applicants are treated fairly without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.