Senior Director of Engineering, Platform

We’ve recently created a Platform organization to accelerate product delivery across an engineering organization of 900+ people and multiple business units. We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to build, lead, and evolve this Platform. 

This role will own the end-to-end strategy, execution, and impact of Platform across the entire technology stack: from foundational infrastructure to frameworks, architectural patterns, and developer workflows.

The Senior Director of Engineering (Platform) will report to the CTO and will be a core member of the engineering leadership team (ELT). ELT consists of product engineering leaders (in Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Payments), a security leader, a Principal Engineer, and the Principal Technical Program Manager.

The mission of the Platform org and its leader is to enable product teams to move faster with higher quality by providing opinionated golden paths, standardized architectural patterns, and platform capabilities that are deeply aligned with our business domains.

The Platform must support multiple business units (Marketplace, Payments, Vinted Go) operating at different sizes and patterns, while maintaining coherence and leverage across the stack.

The Platform is an opinionated internal product organization (consisting of 180+ people) whose primary customer is the product engineer and whose primary outcome is faster, safer, more consistent delivery of business value. This organization has been born recently, so the person in this role will explicitly need to own the shift from:

• Utility Provider → Platform Steward
• “We shipped the tool” → “The organization is using it well”
• Raw infrastructure + fragmented product logic → coherent, layered abstractions
• Availability metrics → engineering effectiveness metrics

The Senior Director is expected to have the mandate and credibility to drive these changes. It’s expected that this shift would happen within 12-24 months, and then the Platform org and what it provides would continue to evolve and improve after the shift.

• Define and continuously evolve a clear Platform vision, strategy, and operating model that spans infrastructure, frameworks, and higher-level abstractions.
• Establish Platform as a curated internal product, not a utility service.
• Clearly articulate what Platform owns, what Product teams own, and how responsibilities shift across abstraction layers.
• Own adoption, evolution, and migration strategies for platform capabilities, including driving and sequencing change across product teams.
• Build and lead the Platform organization, likely needing to change its shape as the shift from Infrastructure happens over the years.
• Hire, develop, and retain senior engineering leaders and staff-level engineers within Platform.
• 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, including prioritization, funding, and decision-making.

• 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.

• 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
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• 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.