Brief info 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. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted Marketplace
Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
Vinted Go
Enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.
Vinted Pay
Is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.
Information about the position
As Vinted’s new Lead/Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining the Platform Resilience team (Marketplace Technologies domain). The purpose of our team is ensuring stable and resilient growth of the Vinted Marketplace services ecosystem. The team consists exclusively of experienced backend engineers, ensuring you always have someone to discuss your ideas with.
Here are some of the technologies we use: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Golang, MySQL, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elastic APM, Datadog, Backstage, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Unix/Linux, Istio, ArgoCD.
Take a look at https://vinted.engineering/ to get a sense of our challenges.
In this position, you’ll
- Develop platform capabilities that help all Marketplace engineers build scalable systems.
- Investigate and improve overall system stability and performance.
- Collaborate with the Product Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering teams to evolve our applications and infrastructure.
- Consult other engineers on how to build robust systems with high availability.
- Craft code that affects more than 80M+ users and handles 10M+ requests per minute.
- Participate in on-call rotation every 5-6 weeks.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 working days of holiday
- Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Private health insurance
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- 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
- In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
- In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast
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 €6,542-€8,842 gross per month. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, as exceptional experience and skills may offer opportunities for flexibility beyond the advertised role.
About you
- Experience building and supporting large-scale applications.
- Good understanding of how infrastructure and code work together.
- A strong communicator, skilled in discussing complex topics and collaborating across cultures in spoken and written English.
- Analytical and acute problem-solving skills.
- Eager to learn and master new technologies and concepts.
- Familiar with most and have deep knowledge in some of the following disciplines (depending on your seniority level): Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You are motivated by challenging, complex engineering problems requiring deep technological understanding, perseverance, collaboration with other developers, and solutions beyond regular product development
- Advantage: experience with Distributed Systems, event-driven architecture, performance optimization and monitoring.
