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 hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Item Inventory team (Supply domain). This team owns the complete lifecycle for items, one of Vinted's largest entities.
Acting as a platform team for the rest of Vinted, Item Inventory is specifically responsible for building and managing item events, acting as the main source of truth for item data across the entire company.
In this role, you will be a key player in defining the future architecture to ensure Vinted scales effectively. Your work will involve leading high-visibility scalability improvements across the company, mentoring best practices, and writing code that directly impacts over 80 million users. Help us achieve our mission of making second-hand the first choice!
In this position, you’ll
- Collaborate with a team of backend engineers to enhance item management performance and scale our codebase to support a growing user base.
- Take ownership of the backend service lifecycle (design, implementation, and maintenance). This includes building out the asynchronous event system and utilizing data projections to power our item architecture.
- 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.
- Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
- Write unit tests (RSpec) for all of the code you write.
- Ensure reliable data validation, inter-service communication, and API performance optimization.
- Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work, participating in planning, retrospectives, and other ceremonies.
- Effectively partner across teams to prioritize and deliver results.
- Own your service end-to-end: from system architecture and design to deployment, observability, and performance tuning. Monitor system performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
- Work with Golang, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Vitess, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Java, Scala, Rust and write streaming applications on top of Apache Flink. We don’t expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand.
- Own SLIs/SLOs in the product team.
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
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- 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.
The salary range for this position is €4,975 - €6,725 gross per month.
About you
- You have solid experience designing, building, and operating backend services in production.
- You are comfortable working with REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous data pipelines.
- You’re excited about working at the intersection of AI and product, and delivering real value to millions of users.
- Experience with integrating AI models (external API-based or in-house LLMs) in production/MLOps experience is a strong plus.
- You have hands-on experience with container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- You’re pragmatic, product-minded, and value clean code and good architecture.
- You enjoy working collaboratively in a team, giving and receiving feedback, and helping others grow.
- You are willing to learn and master new technologies and concepts
- You are a good communicator who can talk clearly about complicated topics both with business people and engineers
- You are capable of working in the team as well as independently, taking the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup or product-focused environment is a bonus.
- As a trusted Senior Backend Engineer, you will participate in on-call rotations to ensure our product performs well.
