Senior Engineering Manager

The role
Vestiaire Collective is looking for a Berlin-based  Senior Engineering Manager to lead our cross-hub Discovery team across Berlin and Paris.
The Discovery team plays a critical role in how buyers explore, discover and engage with our catalog. The team owns key user-facing surfaces such as search, browsing, merchandising exposure, and content-driven discovery, with the objective of helping buyers find the right items at the right time while balancing business, operational and brand considerations.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a comprehensive, cross-functional squad encompassing frontend, backend, machine learning, and data science to execute the Discovery roadmap end-to-end. You will work closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Merchandising and Data to deliver impactful features that improve user engagement, performance and scalability. Because our Discovery experience is heavily driven by search ranking and personalization algorithms, your squad will also actively integrate and rely on solutions built by our Data Scientists.
Reporting to the Director of Data Science and Engineering, you will combine people leadership, delivery ownership and technical contribution, while growing a strong, autonomous and product-oriented engineering team.
What you’ll do
Lead the end-to-end execution of the technical roadmap, delivering high-quality, scalable Discovery features. 
Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Marketing, Merchandising, CRM, Data) to align business priorities, user value, and technical feasibility, effectively balancing a global and local portfolio.
Drive the overarching Discovery Strategy, a key investment pillar for 2027, by partnering directly with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. You will operate in a high-visibility, milestone-driven environment to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.
Act as the technical bridge between software engineering and machine learning, leveraging your cross-functional domain expertise across disciplines to build upon the multi-stage composable search stack 
Manage and mentor a unified squad of 9 members across software engineering and data science. You will drive their professional growth through tailored coaching, impactful 1:1s, and clear career development plans, ensuring every specialist feels supported within a unified team culture.
Actively contribute to technical discussions, system design and architectural decisions.
Drive operational excellence and foster a healthy engineering culture by championing automation, code quality, observability, and continuous improvement.

Who you are
5+ years of experience in software or machine learning engineering, with 3+ years in an Engineering Management or technical leadership role. 
Domain experience in Search & Recommendation systems (bonus if E-commerce or Marketplace platforms) and experience in managing cross-functional squads to enable rapid onboarding and architectural alignment across disciplines.
You have a proven track record of building high-traffic, user-facing products. You are comfortable designing distributed systems and managing real-time data pipelines that power search and recommendation engines.
Proven track record of hiring, retaining and mentoring senior engineers, and building high-performing teams.
Strong communication skills and executive presence. You thrive in a high-accountability culture, comfortably navigating ambiguity, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders around shared company goals. 
Our tech stack
LanguagesGolang, Python, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin
Data & InfrastructureOpenSearch, Kafka, Redis, Airflow, MariaDB  AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible
Data & AnalyticsSnowflake, Snowplow, Tableau, Streamlit, Dust
ToolingGithub, Jira, OpenAPI,

What we offer 
 
A meaningful job with an impact on the way people consume fashion and promote sustainability
The opportunity to do career-defining work in a fast-growing French-born scale up
The possibility to work as part of a globally diverse team with more than 50 nationalities 
Two days to help Project - reinforcing your activist journey and volunteer for an association
Significant investment in your learning and growth
Competitive compensation and benefits package (i.e 28 days of paid time off)
 
 
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Research indicates that people from underrepresented backgrounds—including women, people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities—often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every single requirement.
 
At Vestiaire Collective, we believe that talent comes in many forms, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Your unique perspective could be exactly what our team needs, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box.
 
Vestiaire Collective is an equal opportunities employer  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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