Staff Engineer, Async

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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

As our new Staff Engineer for Async, you will be part of a team of platform-oriented Staff Engineers, who are focused on setting and delivering the technical strategy of Vinted asynchronous service to service communication and stream processing (Async) platform. You will work alongside senior engineers who build the platform together.

Think you’re up to the challenge? Read on.

In this position, you’ll

• Own the vision for technologies that enable asynchronous service to service communication and stream processing.
• Own the technical strategy initiative roadmap.
• Set standards for building the Async platform.
• Lead improvements and innovations in engineering practices while acting as a force multiplier.
• Represent the Asynchronous technological area within the Staff/Principal Engineer layer.
• Interface with other domains who use our services, gather feedback and ensure technology adoption.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with technical expertise.
• Be responsible for underlying infrastructure capabilities like Kafka, Flink, CDC, and various Async related home built components.

About you

• Extensive prior experience as an architect or a staff engineer, having delivered cross-team technical initiatives in organizations of scale.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and their effects on systems and engineering organizations.
• Worked hands-on with distributed systems including asynchronous communication, message brokers, eventual consistency.
• Deeply familiar with the entire lifecycle of software systems at scale, from development and deployment to maintenance and deprecation.
• Demonstrable expertise in designing and implementing effective technical strategies.
• Sharp communication skills and an ability to discuss complex topics in detail, while building relationships, alignment and consensus across functions and departments.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• 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
• In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
• In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

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 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 € 7,708- € 10,425 gross per month.