Engineering Manager, Vinted Pay

We are looking for a technically minded Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed Verifications Team within the Vinted Pay domain. This team was established to own the core integration capability layer for every third-party verification provider and in-house validation rail across Vinted Pay—including biometric Identity Verification (IDV), bank verifications (VoP/CoP), eKYC, eID, and document automation.

Your team of engineers is tasked with building out and scaling our greenfield verifications engine, ensuring high performance, fault tolerance, and seamless "Smart Switching" between primary and secondary providers to back our massive user scaling goals. As an EM, you will split your focus between driving robust integration architectures, managing critical external vendors, and championing the professional growth of your people. You will report to the Director of Engineering and work hand-in-hand with Product, Compliance, and Data peers.

• • People Leadership: Lead, coach, and grow a talented team of engineers. Build and maintain a team culture based on trust, commitment, psychological safety, and clear accountability. Conduct ongoing feedback, performance, and compensation reviews.
  • Provider Redundancy & Abstraction: Drive the architectural extraction and abstraction of critical KYC/AML verification flows. Lead the team in ensuring every core verification capability has a reliable multi-provider setup with automated smart-switching capabilities.
  • High-Throughput Integration Scaling: Stay exceptionally close to the technical design of verifications engine to handle tight latencies and non-trivial technical scaling—such as preparing systems to comfortably execute high volumes of concurrent requests per second (RPS) for verification checkpoints.
  • Deep Third-Party Vendor Management: Collaborate closely with external third-party providers and vendors to design, implement, and maintain highly stable, resilient integrations. Own the technical relationships, evaluate partner APIs, and proactively monitor partner SLAs to eliminate external service dependencies as points of failure.
  • Product Discovery & Sequencing: Partner closely with Product Managers to drive early-stage discovery, mapping out the technical sequencing required for future product and validation development.
  • Delivery & Roadmap Ownership: Drive the team's delivery against the product roadmap, lead agile execution, and support quarterly planning. Ensure timely, effective execution while taking full ownership when things go wrong.
  • Change Leadership: Remain adaptable and resilient in fast-moving, high-growth environments with shifting priorities; “embracing uncertainty” is a core part of your leadership toolkit.

• • Proven Leadership: Robust experience leading teams and driving cross-department software initiatives in a fast-paced product environment.
  • Engineering Foundations: Background in distributed backend systems (ideally handling external API structures, webhook payloads, and cross-service async communication). You are comfortable guiding technical decision-making and facilitating architectural conversations. 
  • People-First Mindset: Highly skilled at building teams, hiring new talent, setting clear scope, and managing priorities to keep the team focused and motivated.
  • Product & Business Sense: A strong product mindset with the ability to connect engineering outcomes and backend reliability directly to customer onboarding experiences and regulatory compliance.
  • Excellent Communicator & Vendor Coordinator: Outstanding stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and confidently across internal teams (Product, Compliance, Legal) and external global technology providers.

• 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

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.