Brief info about Vinted
Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 20+ markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.
Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.
The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.
Information about the position
We are part of Payments business unit that ensures secure and efficient transactions, enhances the user experience, and drives successful transactions through a reliable platform with advanced fraud prevention and tailored payment solutions. At Vinted Pay our mission is to create a global, revenue-generating, multi-service financial platform that will accelerate Vinted’s mission — making second hand the first choice.
As a Backend engineer, you'll join a newly forming Marketplace Payments product team that focuses on AML and KYC processes by ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and protecting the platform from money laundering activities.
The new team will consist of all roles required to fulfill our area’s development needs: multiple backend engineers, iOS, Web, Android, test automation engineer, decision and data scientists, a Designer, an Engineering Manager and a Product Manager.
Take a look at https://vinted.engineering/ to see what we’re up to.
In this position, you’ll
- Work in a cross-functional team and shape the features to make our members’ life better.
- Advocate for best practices, influence technical direction, and ensure quality from the outset of the team’s work.
- Partner effectively across multiple Payments domain teams to prioritize tasks and deliver impactful results.
- Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
- See your code impact 80+ million users almost instantly, as our code gets rolled out straight to production on each merge, and do it reliably with feature switches and scalable A/B tests.
- Craft the code which can handle more than 2M requests per minute.
- Take ownership of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) within the product team, ensuring reliability and performance.
- Offer direct and constructive feedback within the team and larger functions. Actively seek feedback from peers to foster personal and team growth.
About you
- Strong backend engineering skills, with experience in Ruby and Go (or willingness to learn).
- Familiarity with observability practices.
- Eagerness and willingness to learn new concepts and technologies.
- Working experience with relational and in-memory databases, including MySQL and Redis.
- You effectively balance short-term needs with long-term stability.
- You are taking the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
- You are capable of working in the team as well as independently
- A good communicator who can talk clearly about complicated topics both with business people and engineers
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 discount 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 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.
The salary range for this position is € 3,558 - € 4,808 gross per month.
