Engineering Manager - Python

Vestiaire Collective is the leading global online marketplace for desirable pre-loved fashion. We currently have a diverse global team of 600 employees representing more than 50 nationalities. Vestiaire Collective is looking for a Berlin-based Engineering Manager to lead our cross-hub Discovery team across Berlin and Paris.

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 cross-functional squad of frontend and backend engineers 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.

Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Marketing, Merchandising, CRM, Data) to align business priorities, user value, and technical feasibility.

• Bridge the gap between software engineering and data science by guiding your backend engineers in applying Machine Learning Engineering practices to deploy and scale ML models in production.
• 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.
• Drive operational excellence and foster a healthy engineering culture by championing automation, code quality, observability, and continuous improvement.

5+ years of experience as a software engineer (backend, frontend or full stack), and 3+ years in a hands-on management or technical leadership role.

- You are comfortable designing distributed systems and managing real-time data pipelines that power search and recommendation engines.

- Bonus:

- Prior exposure to Machine Learning Engineering (MLOps) and collaborating closely with Data Scientists to integrate ML solutions into production.

Golang, Python, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin

Data & Infrastructure: OpenSearch, Kafka, Redis, Airflow, MariaDB AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible

Data & Analytics: Snowflake, Snowplow, Tableau

The opportunity to do career-defining work in a fast-growing French-born scale up

Two days to help Project - reinforcing your activist journey and volunteer for an association

Competitive compensation and benefits package (i.