Vinted

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 

In the Seller domain, we empower sellers with tools for success, encompassing various features designed to enhance their experience. Our team is focusing on paid features that improve visibility and convenience, such as item and wardrobe promotion.

Our cross-functional team includes engineers from several areas, including iOS, Android, Web, and QA, alongside a product manager, designer, and a decision scientist. We rely on AB testing to drive our product decisions.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll contribute to implementing business logic and APIs for our mobile and web platforms. You'll tackle technical challenges while expanding our backend platform for scalability to handle increasing loads.

Curious to learn more about Engineering at Vinted? Take a look at https://vinted.engineering/

In this position, you’ll 

• Work with one of the biggest Ruby on Rails codebase in the world, MySQL, Redis, Go, Vespa, Apache Flink and more. (We do not anticipate familiarity with Ruby and other technologies; instead, we will provide you with time and support to acclimate to the language. Throughout the interview process, we will assess your proficiency in a backend language in which you feel most confident)
• Shape features in an autonomous, cross-functional team environment
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Write unit tests (RSpec) for all your code contributions. We have nearly 100% code coverage
• Experience the immediate impact of your code on our 80+ million users
• Break down large monoliths into smaller, manageable components and services
• Craft code capable of handling more than 2M requests per minute
• Monitor your deployed code through Kibana, Grafana, DataDog
• Own SLIs/SLOs within the product team
• Effectively partner across teams to prioritise and deliver results
• Provide direct and impactful feedback to the team and larger functions and seek out feedback from other team members to grow

About you 

• You should be willing to learn and master new technologies and concepts
• You love to improve things, and if you see something that needs improvement, you bring it to the table
• You are familiar with the following disciplines: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture
• You are capable of balancing product and technical efforts to enhance business value and improve the standards of our codebase.
• You have strong proficiency in both written and spoken English
• You take pleasure in working collaboratively with teammates

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• 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
• A daily lunch allowance
• 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

Vinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 13.2% of your annual salary to be invested in your continuous professional development. You’ll be able to take the initiative to use it for covering relevant learning activities that benefit your role.

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.

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 € 3,558 - € 6,725 gross per month.