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.
As our new Staff Engineer for AI in Engineering Experience, you will be a key technical leader shaping how hundreds of Vinted employees work with AI in engineering, design, and product. You will own the technical strategy for our assisted and agentic AI infrastructure: tools, platforms, and golden paths that turn AI into a force multiplier across the software development lifecycle.
You will report to the Director of Engineering of the Engineering Experience domain and collaborate closely with Staff Engineers across Platform and other Business Units.
Think you’re up to the challenge? Read on.
In this position, you’ll- Own the technical vision and strategy for Vinted’s AI engineering ecosystem: assisted coding (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex), agentic coding, agentic PR reviews, and MCP infrastructure that connects AI tooling to Vinted’s systems.
- Drive the expansion of AI-enabled engineering workflows so engineers can lean on AI for debugging with logs, traces, configs, and system context.
- Lead the application of AI assistance beyond coding, including incident investigation and resolution, on-call runbook guidance and automated handovers, and easier navigation of services, ownership, and system relationships.
- Define what AI-ready means at Vinted for repositories, services, and workflows, and drive adoption through shared skills, scorecards, and golden paths that product teams can follow with minimal friction.
- Guide the technical roadmap of our AI tooling team, ensuring deliverables compound into a coherent platform.
- Lead high-stakes experiments on emerging AI capabilities (automated refactoring, test generation, agentic PR reviews) and turn them into company-wide standards.
- Evaluate external tooling vs. in-house solutions for AI-enabled engineering capabilities, guide build-versus-buy decisions, and navigate the fast-moving pricing and contract landscape with technical judgment.
- Define and operationalize clear success metrics for AI-enabled engineering, including adoption, quality, and impact on developer productivity.
- Represent Vinted’s AI engineering direction within the Staff/Principal Engineer layer.
- Deeply enthusiastic about the evolving AI landscape, keeping a pulse on industry breakthroughs and understanding how to translate them into engineering value.
- Prior experience as a staff engineer or architect, having delivered cross-team platform initiatives in organizations of scale.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with modern AI coding and agentic tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or comparable), and a clear point of view on where they fit in an engineer’s workflow.
- Strong understanding of LLM application architecture: agent design, tool use, MCP, retrieval and knowledge indexing, evaluation, and the operational realities of running agents in production.
- Comfort with ambiguity and fast pivots: the AI landscape shifts on a monthly basis.
- A pragmatist’s instinct for what’s real vs. hype: able to separate demos from durable capability, run structured experiments, and kill things that don’t work.
- Demonstrable expertise in designing technical strategies and driving their adoption across hundreds of engineers through code, golden paths, enablement, and technical writing.
- Ability to delegate refinement and implementation to engineers in your organization while holding the bar on architecture and direction.
- Sharp communication skills and an ability to discuss complex topics in detail, while building relationships, alignment, and consensus across functions and departments.
- 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.
Skills Required
- Prior experience as a staff engineer or architect
- Hands-on expertise with modern AI coding and agentic tooling
- Strong understanding of LLM application architecture
- Ability to delegate refinement to engineers
- Sharp communication skills
Vinted Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vinted and has not been reviewed or approved by Vinted.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees can participate in a share options program, and recurring internal secondary‑liquidity events make equity value more tangible.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 working days of holiday and a workation policy allowing up to 90 days of remote work per year (including a limited allowance outside the EU) broaden time‑away options.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is topped up to full gross salary for 20 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers in Lithuania, with flexible leave until the child turns two.
Vinted Insights
What We Do
We’re the world’s biggest preloved fashion marketplace. The brainchild of Milda Mitkutė and Justas Janauskas, Vinted grew from a local website into a mobile-first community of 20 million people in 10 countries which is boasting over 30 million listings in total. Our mission: make second hand the #1 choice worldwide. We do it by shaking up everyday shopping habits and creating new personalized ways of buying, selling, and swapping clothes, accessories, and lifestyle items. We’re always on the lookout for smart people who know exactly how they can contribute to making Vinted better. Join or lead cross-functional teams at a startup where your impact is never limited to your job description. Step out of your comfort zone. Grow with us. And have fun with a team of more than 200 people along the way. You can find all open positions: https://www.vinted.com/jobs If you know you belong here - tell us why! Follow us! https://www.instagram.com/weworkatvinted/
