Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety

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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

We are expanding the Trust domain and are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our newly established team dedicated to empower our users to confidently identify and correctly respond to harm exposure.

As our new backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing new features and maintaining existing ones. Your main aim will be preparing our product for the challenges ahead, ensuring our members are feeling safe on our platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice.

Also, by joining Vinted you’ll become part of an active community of engineers who are keen on sharing knowledge, organizing learning workshops and so much more! Take a look at engineering.vinted.com to see what we’re up to.

In this position, you’ll

• Work in a cross-functional team and shape the features to make our members’ lives better
• Lead team and domain-level initiatives contributing to a safer environment for our members
• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers to foster their professional development
• See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly. Our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day
• Work with a healthy mix of battle tested and emerging technologies such as: Golang, Ruby on Rails, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, MySQL and many more
• Craft the code which can handle more than 2M requests per minute
• Utilize Kibana, Grafana, and other observability tools to monitor code effectiveness

About you

• Hands-on working experience in development or operations at scale
• Driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts
• Enthusiastic about exploring and tackling complex challenges in backend development
• Committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge and foster a positive, cooperative environment
• Willingness to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
• Proficient communicator in spoken and written English, comfortable collaborating with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• Experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang is a plus

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 friendly 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.

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 - € 4,808 gross per month.