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Vinted Posted 15 days ago

Engineering Manager, Kafka

Agile

Capacity Planning

SRE

Kafka

The job in short

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Vinted is hiring: “Engineering Manager, Kafka” (Mid level). Salary: 100 300–121 400 € per year gross. Technologies in the ad: Agile, Capacity Planning, SRE, Kafka. The ad is in English and does not ask for Lithuanian. Vinted currently has 94 open IT positions.

Salary

100 300 – 121 400 €/year

Gross/year

Level

Mid

2–5 years of experience. You build features on your own from task to production and help juniors.

Work mode

On-site

What you will do

Lead and develop a team of 5+ infrastructure engineers, driving individual goal setting, regular feedback cycles, and quarterly performance reviews.
Build individual career development plans, mentoring engineers to reach their potential and supporting team growth.
Keep track of team health, delivery velocity, and operational workload to prevent burnout and ensure a sustainable pace.
Create, refine, and take accountability for efficient operational procedures, agile workflows, incident response routines, and on-call practices.
Help unblock engineers, resolve cross-team dependencies, and foster strong collaboration with peer platform teams.
Participate in engineering management rituals, organizational planning, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Oversee team execution, capacity planning, and hiring efforts as the team expands.
Work with the Staff Engineer and TPM to turn technical strategy into well-structured roadmaps, clear team priorities, and predictable delivery.
Communicate with internal stakeholders and development teams across Vinted to ensure transparent service expectations, SLAs, and roadmap visibility.
Ensure the team delivers eventually consistent systems that keep data synchronized across cross-Atlantic markets without sacrificing performance.
Focus on your team's and your own professional and personal growth, including conducting performance and compensation reviews.

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What is expected

Have experience managing, coaching, and developing software and/or infrastructure engineering teams, with a track record of delivering results.
Have a strong understanding of goal-setting frameworks, performance review cycles, continuous feedback, and career growth pathways for engineers.
Are comfortable collaborating in a leadership triad, partnering closely with a Staff Engineer on technical decisions and a TPM on program execution.
Are skilled 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.
Are well-versed in high-level software engineering and platform concepts, enabling you to communicate effectively with technical specialists without needing to be hands-on.
Communicate excellently in written and spoken English.

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Nice to have

Experience working within platform, infrastructure, SRE, or cloud organizations.
Experience working within Apache Kafka or similar platforms.
Experience establishing or improving on-call rotations, incident post-mortem processes, or service-level management.

What they offer

The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
25 days of paid annual leave
Newest MacBook models
Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
Frequent team-building events
Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
Lunch benefit per working day
A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
Company bike leasing scheme
Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
Work from Home allowance
A dog-friendly office
Working at Vinted
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.
Salary
The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: €100.300—€121.400 EUR

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Job description

The ad as published by the employer.

Role: As an Engineering Manager for the Kafka team, you will lead an engineering team responsible for providing managed services, tooling, and standards for multiple Vinted product teams that need asynchronous message processing. This spans the full scope of the domain - from operating infrastructure and running Kafka clusters across multiple data centers, to abstracting complex systems into easy-to-use managed services that support core Vinted operations at scale. Your main responsibility will be the health, morale, and efficiency of your team, ensuring they successfully operate and grow parts of the platform while developing "golden paths" for product developers. The newly established Kafka team in the Persistence domain currently consists of 5 experienced engineers, with plans to grow further. 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.

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.

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About the company

Vinted

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Vinted is hiring for 94 IT positions right now, mostly in Data and AI, Backend, Marketing and SEO.

Open roles: 94
Salary median: 5 400 €
Remote or hybrid: 9 %
Founded: 2008

Technologies in Vinted's ads

SQL

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