Head of Engineering

Vestiaire Collective is the leading global online marketplace for desirable pre-loved fashion. Our mission is to transform the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by empowering our community to promote the circular fashion movement. Vestiaire was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Paris with offices in London Berlin New York Singapore Ho Chi Minh and Hong Kong and warehouses in Tourcoing (France) Crawley (UK) Hong Kong and New York.

We currently have a diverse global team of 700 employees representing more than 50 nationalities. Our values are Activism Transparency Dedication and Greatness and Collective. We are proud to be a BCorp.

About the Role

We are looking for a Head of Engineering Payment and Checkout to lead the strategic development of our payment and checkout systems. This role will oversee both the Payment and Checkout teams of 15 engineers focusing on seamless secure and scalable solutions for customers and sellers. With a strong focus on e-commerce payment technologies youll lead a cross-functional team in creating innovative performant systems that power both user experience and business growth.

As a key leader in the engineering organization you will collaborate closely with product teams technical partners and senior leadership to deliver robust solutions. Youll be responsible for designing system architecture ensuring scalability and optimizing workflows to meet the growing needs of our platform.

What Youll Be Doing

Lead a talented team of 15 engineers (both backend and frontend) in the development of payment and checkout features that power customer transactions on Vestiaire Collective.

Collaborate with product design and business teams to align the teams goals with company objectives ensuring we meet both user and business needs.

Drive system architecture and design decisions that support scalability reliability and performance in handling high transaction volumes while ensuring system resiliency fault tolerance and robust recovery mechanisms to minimize downtime and ensure continuous service even during peak loads or unexpected failures.

Manage the end-to-end software lifecycle from ideation through to production focusing on continuous improvement and innovative solutions.

Implement cutting-edge technologies such as internal wallets AI-driven personalization and advanced payment methods to ensure the most efficient and flexible solutions for our customers.

Optimize payment flows ensuring a seamless transparent and secure checkout experience helping customers confidently complete their transactions.

Foster a team culture of openness collaboration and high performance driving both individual and collective growth.

Establish clear communication across teams to ensure alignment on product roadmaps technical solutions and business goals.

Advocate for best practices in coding software design and architecture ensuring the team follows modern maintainable and efficient patterns.

Who You Are

Fluent in English (French is a plus). Please send your application in English only.

A proven leader with extensive experience managing high-performing engineering teams particularly in the payment space for e-commerce platforms.

Technical expertise in backend technologies with a deep understanding of system architecture microservices and distributed systems. Experience with PHP and Go is a must as well as Hexagonal Architecture and asynchronous communication.

Payment system expert with knowledge of global payment solutions fraud prevention security standards (PCI-DSS) and integrating payment gateways. Specific expertise with Braintree and Adyen is a plus.

Architecturally minded with the ability to design and optimize scalable and secure systems to handle millions of transactions daily.

A strong communicator who can articulate technical concepts clearly and foster cross-functional collaboration across teams.

Experienced in agile development methodologies with a focus on continuous delivery iterative improvements and high-quality standards.

Product-focused understanding how technical decisions impact user experience and business outcomes.

Our Tech stack includes :

Languages : PHP Go

Application Framework : Symfony

Payment Systems : Payment gateways (Adyen Braintree etc.) internal wallet systems

Infrastructure & DevOps : AWS Docker Terraform

Databases : MySQL MongoDB

Caching & Messaging : Redis RabbitMQ Kafka

Monitoring & Observability : Datadog Grafana

Tools & Documentation : Jira GitHub Swagger / 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

As full member of our entrepreneurial project you will be eligible to free shares

Surveys show that women and members of underrepresented communities only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the required conditions. Does this sound like you If so Vestiaire Collective encourages you to reconsider your application. We look forward to receiving your application!

Vestiaire Collective is an equal opportunities employer

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Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Marketing & Promotions,Attorney At Law,Jni,Airlines,Art

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1