Engineering Manager, Vinted Pay

Brief info about Vinted

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.

Information about the position

We are launching a brand-new Automation Team within the Vinted Pay domain.

This team will be structurally different from other product teams at Vinted because it operates in a non-PDA setup (No Product Manager, Product Designer, or Decision Scientist by design). We believe that automation is a deeply technical and operational challenge that should be spearheaded directly by engineering.

As the Engineering Manager of the Automation Team , you will wear two hats: leading your team of Backend Engineers and acting as the Product Manager. You will own the entire lifecycle of the team’s deliverables — from early-stage product discovery and requirements gathering with key stakeholders to technical design, delivery, and scaling.

Initially, your team will focus on automating mission-critical compliance and operational flows, including:

• Financial Authority Reporting: Automating complex reporting pipelines for central banks and regulators
• Compliance Operations (SARs & STARs): Automating Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and Suspicious Transaction Activity Reports (STARs) in collaboration with our AML and Legal teams.
• Incident Reporting & Monitoring: Seamlessly automating incident tracking, alerting, and SLA triggers within Vinted Pay.

In this position, you’ll

• Product & Delivery Management (Acting as PM)

• Own Product Discovery: Partner closely with high-level stakeholders — including Compliance, AML Legal, Risk, Finance, and Customer Support — to understand regulatory, legal, and operational problems.
• Write Product Requirements: Translate complex financial, compliance, and regulatory guidelines into clear, structured functional requirements, product briefs, and technical epics.
• Set the Vision & Roadmap: Define your team’s long-term automation strategy, map out milestones, set Quarterly OKRs, and prioritize the backlog based on business impact and legal deadlines.
• Manage Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary interface for Vinted Pay leadership on automation capabilities, communicating delivery status, technical trade-offs, and risk mitigations.

People Leadership & Team Health

• Nurture & Grow Engineers: Direct-line manage a team of Backend Engineers (IC2-IC4). Identify their development needs, set impact and growth goals, conduct impactful 1:1s, and run performance reviews through our People Growth & Impact Cycle (PGIC).
• Foster psychological safety: Create a healthy, autonomous, and high-performing team environment that values curiosity, continuous learning, and co-creation.
• Hiring & Capability Planning: Take ownership of recruiting and onboarding new engineering talent as the team expands to match Vinted Pay's growth.

Technical & Process Excellence

• Ensure Quality of Engineering: Oversee the delivery lifecycle. Ensure that the team writes highly performant, secure, and scalable automated systems (mostly in Go or Ruby ) that adhere to our domain's architectural standards.
• Manage Technical Debt: Proactively identify and manage technical debt, balancing pragmatic short-term deliveries with long-term architectural health.
• Own Service Reliability & Incidents: Establish clear Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your automation systems. Ensure robust monitoring and a structured process for incident management.

About you

We are looking for a hybrid leader who possesses both strong engineering management fundamentals and a proven product sense.

• Dual Experience: You have previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Technical Program Manager, or a highly technical Product Manager. You have a track record of successfully managing engineering delivery and people while writing requirements and driving product roadmaps.
• Regulated Domain Exposure: You have spent time working in a FinTech, Payments, Banking, or highly regulated compliance/operations environment. Experience dealing with AML, KYC, transaction monitoring, or regulatory reporting is a major plus.
• Exceptional Communication: You excel at breaking down highly complex regulatory, legal, and compliance concepts into clear, actionable technical requirements for developers, while confidently explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.&lt