Director of Engineering, Frontend technologies, Marketplace Technologies
Vinted · Berlin, Germany ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Frontend
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Visa sponsorship
- Yes
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- EUR 124,300 – 168,100 / year
Vinted · Berlin, Germany ·
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The Director of Engineering will lead the frontend technology domain at Vinted, setting the strategic vision for web, iOS, and Android platforms to improve developer velocity and user experience. This role involves influencing 40+ teams to modernize frontend architecture and modularization while managing a team of engineering managers and staff engineers.
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.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Frontend Technologies domain within Marketplace. In this role, your mission will be two-fold:
You will have to balance and prioritize foundational capabilities - such as Design Systems, CI/CD, Modularization, App Releases, Performance, and Global UI quality - to optimize both frontend developer velocity and user satisfaction.
You will lead 4 Engineering Managers and 3 Staff Engineers and set and implement the FE strategy, which will impact the roadmaps of 9 Product domains within the Marketplace.
Strategically:
Tactically:
A lot of this work will be influencing without formal authority: Champion the frontend technical vision among your director peers, influencing the leaders of 9 Product domains to accommodate and prioritize platform-wide changes across 40+ teams.
How much of a technical acumen? Enough to have in depth conversations with our direct reports. You will have 4 strong technical EMs reporting to you, as well as 3 world-class staff engineers. We don’t think you need to match their technical competencies (that’s a stretch!), but you have to be able to speak their language, understand problems at their essence, and be able to consolidate and multiply their inputs, including being able to disagree objectively.
Leadership: you have a track record of making level change in the organizations that you lead (rather than 20% change). Consolidating your team views and making coherent strategy out of those views is step one. Step two is even more important: being able to implement these changes in your domain, and more so - across other domains in the marketplace - is a foundational ability you carry. In practice, that means you have at least 2 years of experience leading leaders and 5 years of experience influencing without authority.
Change horizon: You are comfortable holding two timeframes at once. We need someone who can say, "Here is what our frontend setup should look like in two years, and here is why" AND name the clear deliverable that has to ship in the first quarter to make that end state reachable. Leaders who only do the second are common. Leaders who only do the first are entertaining. We need both.
What this role is not: This is not a hands-on frontend or release-engineering role. You will not be tuning CI, owning the release train, or reviewing architecture decisions yourself — you’ll have 4 strong EMs and 3 Staff Engineers close to the details, and your job is to turn their technical judgment into direction, alignment, and organizational change. If your strongest work is deep in the mechanics, you'll be underused here. If your strongest work is changing how 40+ teams operate, you'll be busy.
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.
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