Lead Analytics Engineer, Buyer, Supply & MLC

Lead Analytics Engineer, Buyer, Supply & MLC

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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.

Vinted Group consists of three business units: Vinted Marketplace , Vinted Go and Vinted Pay . Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted is Europe's leading platform for second‑hand fashion, operating across 20+ markets with over 2,000 people.

Information about the position As a Lead Analytics Engineer in the Buyer–Supply–MLC area, you will act as the technical leader for Analytics Engineering across three domains. This role focuses on building pipelines and models, shaping direction, enabling others, and maximizing the impact of our data investments.

In this position, you’ll

• Enable other Analytics Engineers by setting best practices, reviewing design decisions, and helping them make sustainable data modeling choices that support rapid growth in data volume and complexity.
• Provide technical leadership on broad, less‑defined initiatives, bringing structure, clarity, and a concrete roadmap that others can execute against.
• Spot opportunities for value creation across domains by identifying underused datasets, efficiency gaps, or new use cases that data can unlock.
• Drive to optimization and cost monitoring, ensuring pipelines and models remain performant and cost‑efficient as scale grows.
• Assist in shaping the roadmap for Analytics Engineering in Buyer–Supply–MLC, aligning priorities with stakeholders and ensuring coherence across domains.
• Work with ML‑powered features and training data needs, ensuring that the underlying data pipelines meet the freshness, quality, and observability standards required for data teams.
• Enable sustainable data growth by designing models and frameworks that can evolve with new initiatives (multi‑verticalization, B2C, personalization, etc.).

About You

• At least 6 years of related experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, or ETL Developer, ideally in a complex, high‑volume environment.
• Proven experience in scaling impact by enabling and guiding others through technical leadership, mentoring, or driving alignment across teams.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL (performance tuning, readability, maintainability).
• Experience with dbt, Airflow, BigQuery, Looker, CI/CD.
• Skilled in Python, writing clear, testable code.
• Experience with high‑volume, multi‑source data (CDC, events) and downstream destinations (dashboards, ML models, experimentation metrics, data products).
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable, optimized and sustainable data models.
• Knowledge of near real‑time data processing (trade‑offs between Kappa and Lambda, stream processing with Apache Kafka and Flink).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of aligning multiple stakeholders and leading cross‑domain initiatives.
• Strong problem‑solving and optimization mindset, balancing speed, cost, and quality.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Work perks

• Opportunity to benefit from our share options programme.
• 30 days of paid annual leave.
• Newest MacBook models.
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP).
• Home office support: IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home furniture.
• A daily lunch allowance.
• Frequent team‑building events.
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted.
• Subsidised gym membership with ClassPass or Urban Sports Club.
• Subsidised pension plan.
• Health insurance.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Subsidised Deutschlandticket.
• Option to spend up to 90 days per year on workation (21 days outside the EU).
• Dog‑friendly office.

Working at Vinted

We invest in your professional growth! Each year, we provide a learning budget to support your career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid work model: 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced.

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 race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Salary range: €84,500 – €114,300 gross per year.

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