Lead Backend Engineer, Transactional Experience

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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

As Vinted’s new Lead Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining our team in the Transactional Experience domain. The purpose of this team is to take care of shipping experience in Vinted Marketplace. Some of the initiatives we’re currently working on and are inviting you to join in:

• Splitting the monolith
• Extracting shipping estimation logic to separate services
• Co-creating on shipping experience technical vision

You will join a cross-functional team which comprises 2 mobile engineers (iOS and Android), web engineer, 3 backend engineers, 2 QA engineers, a Product Manager, a Designer, a Decision Scientist, and an Engineering manager to whom you’ll report. Your main aim will be preparing our product for the challenges that lie ahead and making sure it contributes to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice.

Take a look at engineering.vinted.com to see what we’re up to.

In this position, you’ll

• Work in a team and shape the features to make our members’ lives better
• Actively collaborate with Staff Engineers to define, drive and lead technical solutions impacting beyond the team's scope
• Set the technical direction for the team backend engineers, driving towards a higher maturity and clarifying the path for technological advancements
• Promote RFC culture in the team (e.g write RFCs, encourage others to write RFCs/ADRs)
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Write unit tests (RSpec) for all of the code you write. We have >10000 tests that run in ~5 minutes through our Jenkins setup
• See your code affect 80 million users almost instantly. Our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge
• Work with one of the biggest Ruby on Rails codebase in the world, MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch and many more technologies. We don't expect you to be familiar with any of them beforehand
• Break down large monoliths into smaller, manageable components and services
• Craft the code which can handle more than 2M requests per minute and 12-15 transactions per second
• Monitor your deployed code through Kibana, Grafana, DataDog
• Own SLIs/SLOs in the product team
• Effectively partner across teams to prioritize and deliver results

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 actively bring it to the table
• You can engage in constructive and healthy conflict, expressing your views openly, while maintaining respect and professionalism towards colleagues
• You are never settling for the status quo and aiming high is a core part of your values
• You are motivated by difficult tasks and complex challenges that require a deep understanding of technologies, trends and best practices
• Can effectively balance product and technical initiatives to deliver tangible impact and value to the business
• You are strong in communicating in spoken and written English and can easily collaborate with colleagues from different cultures
• You are knowledgeable of system architecture and are able to operate on a conceptual level (e.g. evaluate short-term vs. long-term solutions)
• Have an understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts
• You actively contribute input on what should be prioritised in the tech track for each quarter’s planning

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

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.