Lead Backend Engineer, Ads Team

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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 is 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

We're looking for a Lead Backend (Golang) Engineer to join the Ads Team in the Vinted Marketplace domain. Our goal is to build an internal ads platform that will deliver a native ads experience at scale, integrating ads into all areas of Vinted and significantly contributing to the overall revenue. You’ll collaborate with experienced colleagues to develop a robust and scalable platform and lead engineers to accelerate ads innovation.

The project is still in the early stages, we are building many things from scratch, so prepare to move fast and try out a bunch of new things. We are constantly building new features and evolving existing ones, with experimentation being key. We balance the "fail fast" principle to avoid analysis-paralysis, but we also take the time to understand the benefits of different alternatives before diving in. We're not afraid to make mistakes. We learn from them.

In this position, you’ll

• Work alongside backend and site reliability to build a robust and scalable platform.
• Shape our Golang standards.
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work. We don't rigidly adhere to a single framework. We view Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies as tools, selecting the most beneficial one for the team to achieve its goals.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Actively looking for solutions to use AI in automating the reviewing process.
• Use AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and others to improve your code.
• See your code to affect millions of users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day.
• Work with diverse tech stack, including: languages: Go, Ruby, Scala; databases/storage: MySQL, monitoring/observability: Prometheus, Grafana, data streaming: Apache Flink . We don't expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand, but we expect you will be excited to learn them fast.
• Apply different levels of testing: from testing your code to performance testing to investigate various potential bottlenecks.
• Take ownership of critical alerts and business metrics for your team to ensure our services achieve 99.99% availability.

About you

• You can effectively lead and mentor other engineers, setting technical direction and fostering growth within the team.
• You bring hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling AdTech solutions
• You have solid backend engineering skills, with expertise in Golang or similar programming languages.
• You're eager to master new technologies and concepts, always ready to embrace new challenges and grow as a specialist.
• You think practically, choosing the best solutions, avoiding over-engineering, and prioritizing simplicity.
• You are ready to take action, fight for your own ideas, and challenge others to make their ideas bulletproof.
• You love to fix things and, more importantly, are driven to understand how they work.
• Strategic Decision-Maker: You effectively balance immediate needs with long-term stability in your decisions.
• You prioritize collective success, actively seeking to deepen your expertise, share knowledge, and uphold best engineering practices.
• You possess strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-domain teams and non-technical stakeholders.

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
• 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
• 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 €6,542 - €8,842 gross per month.