Quality Assurance 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 actively looking for a skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to join our distinguished Product Engineering team in the Trust domain. Our domain is dedicated to prioritizing the safety of our services and protecting members from malicious content and behaviors.

You’ll be joining a cross-functional product team with a strong backend focus, working on systems that power detection and decision-making tools critical to trust and safety at Vinted. In this role, you’ll primarily focus on manual testing of complex backend functionalities and data-driven features. This includes validating detection logic, analyzing behavioral patterns, ensuring data integrity, and verifying system behavior under various scenarios through exploratory testing. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, analysts, and product managers to understand how our systems identify potentially harmful behavior and ensure our detection mechanisms work effectively and reliably. As the team continues to adopt shift-left testing practices, we expect the balance between manual and automated testing to evolve, offering you the opportunity to shape and contribute to our testing strategy.

This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys digging into backend systems, thrives on analytical thinking and investigative work, and wants to play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of tools that make a real impact on our members’ safety.

In this position, you’ll

• Establish, evolve and drive effective team QA processes (including shifting left) – set up clear, sustainable ways of working that help the team stay focused and productive, and regularly review and refine them for continuous improvement.
• Focus on testing backend, web, and mobile (iOS/Android) platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive test suites in collaboration with engineers.
• Investigate and analyze malicious patterns and improve detection mechanisms.
• Work closely with developers via GitHub pull requests and conduct code reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Participate actively in the QA community at Vinted, sharing insights and collaborating with over 50 QAs.
• Contribute to daily team ceremonies to identify inconsistencies early and prevent potential issues.
• Foster knowledge-sharing both within and outside your team.

About you

• You approach incidents and unexpected disruptions with calm, resilience, and a clear focus on resolution.
• Possess a keen attention to detail, strong ownership, adaptability, excellent communication skills and analytical mindset for problem detection.
• Have deep knowledge of QA methodology and practical application in daily tasks.
• Experienced with code management tools (e.g., Github), MySQL, logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Elastic, Grafana), as well as data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., Looker).
• Oriented towards AI - first tools and eager to learn about Large Language Models (LLMs) and other emerging technologies.

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 € 3,792 - € 5,125 gross per month.