Engineering Manager, KV Storage (Limited-time Relocation Bonus)

Information about the position

As an Engineering Manager for the KV Storage team, you will lead the people, processes, and operational excellence of an engineering team responsible for Vinted’s distributed key-value storage and caching systems, including Redis, Memcached, etcd, Cassandra, and our internal Distributed Locks service.

The KV Storage team is newly established from our existing Storage team and currently consists of 5 experienced engineers, with plans to grow further. You don’t need to be a deep technical specialist in storage systems—instead, your focus will be on people leadership, driving individual growth, establishing smooth engineering workflows, fostering a healthy team culture, and driving effective execution across our bare-metal and Kubernetes environments.

In this role, you will report to the Director of Engineering and form a strong leadership partnership with the team's Staff Engineer (who leads deep technical architecture and technology choices) and Technical Program Manager (TPM) (who drives cross-team delivery and roadmap alignment). Together, you will empower the team to deliver reliable, high-quality services to Vinted’s wider development organization.

In this position, you’ll

• Lead and develop a team of 5+ infrastructure engineers, driving individual goal setting, regular feedback cycles, and quarterly performance reviews.
• Build up individual career development plans, mentoring engineers to achieve their potential and supporting team growth.
• Work with the Staff Engineer and TPM to turn technical strategy into well-structured roadmaps, clear team priorities, and predictable delivery.
• Create and refine efficient operational procedures, agile workflows, incident response routines, and on-call practices for the team.
• Oversee team execution, capacity planning, and hiring efforts as the new KV Storage team expands.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders and development teams across Vinted to ensure transparent service expectations, SLAs, and roadmap visibility.
• Participate in engineering management rituals, organizational planning, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Keep track of team health, delivery velocity, and operational workload to prevent burnout and ensure a sustainable pace.
• Assist with unblocking engineers, resolving cross-team dependencies, and fostering strong collaboration with peer platform teams.
• Ensure the team delivers eventually consistent systems that keep data synchronized across cross-Atlantic markets without sacrificing performance.
• Help the team to solve hard distributed systems problems, including how to maintain platform integrity when facing network partitions and byzantine faults.

About you

• Have experience in managing, coaching, and developing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Have a strong understanding of goal-setting frameworks, performance review cycles, continuous feedback, and career growth pathways for engineers.
• Comfortable with collaborating in a leadership triad, partnering closely with a Staff Engineer for technical decisions and a TPM for program execution.
• Good at creating structured workflows, clarifying team ownership, facilitating constructive discussions, and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Care deeply about people development, psychological safety, a healthy on-call culture, and team satisfaction.
• Well-versed in high-level software engineering and platform concepts, enabling you to communicate effectively with technical specialists without needing to be hands-on.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• Advantage: Experience working within platform, infrastructure, SRE, or cloud organizations.
• Advantage: Experience establishing or improving on-call rotations, incident post-mortem processes, or service-level management.

Work perks

• 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
• 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

Working at Vinted

Workation policy

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.

Hybrid work

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!