Backend Engineer, Buyer

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Information about the position

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join theBuyer domain. We are the central hub for finding and listing products and providing insights for optimisation. The domain connects buyers with products, optimises the shopping experience, and promotes successful transactions through a user-friendly platform with advanced search features and personalised recommendations.

We are looking for a backend engineer for the Search Subdomain team. This team offers a personalised, efficient search experience, enabling members to express their needs in their own words (or images) and retrieve and rank the most relevant matches available for purchase. In addition, the team owns a solution that controls international connections and item visibility.

Our team consists of all roles required to fulfil our area’s development needs: multiple backend engineers, iOS, WEB, Android, test automation engineers, decision- and data scientists, a designer and a product manager.

In this position, you’ll

• Implement and shape search-related features that positively impact our 80+ million users.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Code changes are rolled out instantly to production.
• Monitor your deployed code through Kibana, Grafana, Datadog.
• The team owns and monitors service layer measurements (SLI, SLO, etc.) and has an on-call rotation. You would be a part of it.
• Work closely with engineering and product managers, frontend engineers, analytics, and other stakeholders in order to deliver features.

About you

• Hands-on working experience in software engineering, familiarity with distributed systems, service oriented architecture.
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• You have a strong willingness and motivation to learn new technologies, e.g. Vespa search engine, Redis, Kubernetes etc.
• Good communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with teams across domains and bring to the table improvements
• Excellent written and spoken English

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

Vinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 10-13.2% 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.