Engineering Manager, Service Ecosystem

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Department: Engineering

Information about the position 

As our new Engineering Manager for Service Standards & Performance, you will be a key leader within our Service Ecosystem domain in Platform Unit. You will lead a team focused on providing tooling and standards for the ecosystem of backend service applications, specifically honing in on performance and service contracts tooling. Your main responsibility will be the health, morale, and efficiency of your team, ensuring they successfully establish backend best practices and "golden paths" for product developers. Working closely with your team, you will report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate with Staff Engineers to define and enforce standards for our service ecosystem.

Think you’re up to the challenge? Read on.

In this position, you’ll 

• Be accountable for the results of the team (delivery management and quality of engineering), the processes and procedures in the team, and the people in the team.
• Lead the delivery of crucial cross-domain platform initiatives, including multi-repo codebase maintenance, service contracts tooling (OpenAPI, gRPC codegen), and service quality scorecards.
• Oversee the implementation of strict performance budgeting, performance analysis and profiling tools (for Ruby and Go), and resource (CPU & RAM) planning features like default profiles and autoscaling.
• Ensure the team provides comprehensive development documentation, training, and AI development enablement (MCPs) targeting platform users.
• Collaborate closely with Backend Staff Engineers and domain leadership to deliver on the Vinted backend strategy.
• Focus on your team's and your own professional and personal growth, including conducting performance and compensation reviews.

About you 

• Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering results.
• With previous backend engineering experience, we expect you to be technically proficient, enabling you to comfortably navigate complex service ecosystems and optimize performance topics.
• Project management experience delivering on cross-department technical initiatives.
• You know how to make teams effective, manage scopes, and manage deliverables.
• Experience building teams, hiring new team members, and ensuring their ongoing professional development.
• Solid proficiency in communicating with both technical and management levels.
• Able to adapt to changing priorities and requirements; “embracing uncertainty” is a phrase that does not scare you.
• Excellent at communicating in spoken and written English.

Work perks 

• 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

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 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 € 6,658 - € 9,008 gross per month.