Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety

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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.

Information about the position 

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Trust & Safety domain. The domain focuses on preventing malicious behaviour, fraud, abuse, scams, and policy violations, while building scalable systems that protect users, brands and support a seamless experience.

The domain brings together 8 cross-functional teams across software engineering, data and decision science, design, and product, all working together to build and evolve machine learning powered systems that detect malicious content, enforce policies, and keep the platform safe. A key focus of this role will be leading an engineering team dedicated to building system for malicious content detection using image recognition and machine learning technologies.

In this position, you’ll 

• Own end-to-end delivery and stakeholder management, leading agile execution and ensuring alignment, clear reporting, and successful outcomes across teams
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team, fostering engagement, accountability, and continuous development
• Drive engineering excellence across resilience, stability, scalability, developer experience, and quality
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data to align on priorities, support experimentation, and deliver impactful, data-informed solutions
• Shape and deliver features that make Vinted’s detection product best-in-class
• Lead initiatives in counterfeit and malicious content prevention, building scalable solutions in a greenfield space
• Execute roadmap, OKRs, and delivery plans to effectively reduce user harm and platform abuse at scale
• Collaborate with Engineering leadership to drive continuous improvement and elevate the broader organization

About you 

• You have proven experience leading and growing high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced product environment
• You have strong people management skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development
• You are able to lead cross-team delivery and drive execution in collaboration with Product, Design, Analytics, and other stakeholders
• You have a solid engineering background and are able to guide technical decision-making, foster engineering excellence, and support scalable system design
• You have experience leading teams working on ML-powered products and are familiar with ML systems, experimentation, and ML engineering practices in production
• You have strong stakeholder management and communication skills, and are able to align different functions around shared goals
• You have a strong business and product mindset, and are able to connect technical work to customer and company impact
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Is a plus if You have experience with retrieval, ranking, classification, or recommendation systems, and ideally with applied AI/ML use cases such as image recognition, computer vision, or trust and safety domains

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at friendly prices
• 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

Working at Vinted 

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.

The salary range for this position is €6,658 - €9,008 gross per month.