Vinted

Brief info 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.

Information about the position

We are seeking a Java or Golang Backend Developer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within the Production Engineering domain. Together with a team of experienced colleagues you will be responsible for the evolution and maintenance of Vinted's data streaming infrastructure. This includes supporting and improving streaming services and real-time data products (Events / CDC). Additionally, you will work on Vinted’s asynchronous communication infrastructure and libraries, enhancing data exchange between services. Our Production Engineering domain is responsible for ensuring the Vinted platform operates 24/7 and provides essential infrastructure to other teams.

You'll work with a diverse tech stack, including:

• Streaming: Apache Kafka, Flink and Schema Registry
• Languages: Go, Ruby, Java, Scala
• Databases/Storage: MySQL, Vitess, Elasticsearch, Ceph, Redis
• Monitoring/Observability: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana
• DevOps/Orchestration: Rocky Linux, Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Istio, Argo CD and more.

In this position, you’ll

• Support and evolve event-driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, and Schema Registry to ensure stream processing, reliable messaging, and data consistency
• Support and evolve asynchronous communication platform based on Apache Kafka to ensure fast and reliable messaging, and data consistency and security
• Solve complex technical problems with significant business impact

About you

• Strong programming proficiency in Golang or Java family languages
• Experience with data streaming frameworks (e.g., Flink, Spark-streaming, Storm, Kafka-streams, Kinesis) or with messaging frameworks (Watermill, Kafka-streams, Karafka)
• Solid understanding of core infrastructure concepts (compute, storage, network)
• Familiarity with modern software development lifecycles
• Knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and automation practices (testing, build, deployment, CI/CD)
• Working proficiency and strong communication skills in English (written and verbal)
• Curious, growth-oriented, and eager to deepen your expertise in our technologies and concepts

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Never ending snacks and monthly lunch benefit
• Private health insurance
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The salary range for this position is € 4,975 - € 6,725 gross per month.