About Vinted
Vinted is the leading second-hand fashion marketplace in Europe and a go-to destination for all kinds of second-hand items. 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 60 carriers and more than 500,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.
The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. Its backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.
About the Position
We are expanding the Marketplace Security domain and looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join an established team dedicated to enabling member security in Vinted.
As a backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and maintaining features. Your main aim will be preparing the product for technical challenges ahead, ensuring Vinted members feel safe on the platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice. By joining Vinted you will become part of an active community of engineers who are exceptional at delivering the highest grade solutions and are keen on sharing knowledge.
Here are some of the technologies we use: * Programming languages: Go, Ruby * Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis * Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack * Streaming platform: Kafka * CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins * Auth: Okta, OAuth, Open Policy Agent
In this position, you’ll
- Work in a cross-functional team, lead and contribute to team and domain-level initiatives, and shape the features to improve security for Vinted members.
- Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy.
- Work on bot account prevention and mitigation.
- Monitor and ensure the reliability of your code.
- Provide mentorship and support to engineers to foster their professional development
- See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly.
About you
- You have hands-on work experience in development or operations at scale. Bonus points for experience in the cybersecurity domain.
- You are driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts.
- You are committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- You have a strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge and foster a positive, cooperative environment.
- You are willing to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction.
- You are a great communicator able to get your point across in spoken and written English in diverse contexts.
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 the 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 € 4,975 - € 6,725 gross per month.
