Backend Engineer, Purchase

At Vinted, backend engineers are part of cross-functional product teams that include Mobile, Web, and Backend engineers, as well as a product manager, designer, and decision scientist. Backend engineers are responsible for implementing business logic, developing APIs for our mobile and web platforms, and scaling our backend systems to meet growing platform needs.

The Purchase domain guides members from the initial intent to buy to the successful purchase of the desired item. It is composed of several teams that work on delivering smooth checkout, payment, shipping, and messaging functionality to our users.

We’re looking for Backend Engineers to strengthen the messaging subdomain which is focused on building Vinted’s messaging and bundling experience - a key feature that enables members to communicate, negotiate prices, create bundles, receive order updates, contact support, and much more.

We are seeking someone who writes clean code and enjoys working on large-scale projects. Your daily focus will involve heavy product-side experimentation, technical excellence within a microservices architecture, and contributions to company-level initiatives.

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

In this position, you’ll

• Microservices Transition: Extract monolithic features into services using Go and Ruby.Experience with Go is preferred, but not strictly required
• Continuous Delivery: Contribute to tested, deployed applications and manage the transition from monolith to microservices.
• Observability: Monitor service health and performance using Kibana, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Collaboration:Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work and collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Scale: See your code affect 85 million users almost instantly, as our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge
• Reliability:Own SLIs/SLOs in the product team to ensure quality and reliability
• Cross-Team Synergy: Partner across departments to deliver on shared business goals.

• You are willing to learn and excel at new technologies and concepts
• You are a natural problem-solver who identifies inefficiencies and actively proposes solutions.
• You understand enterprise patterns and (micro)services, including the nuanced trade-offs and "pros/cons" of different architectural choices.
• You have some knowledge about enterprise architecture patterns, (micro)services, and their pros/cons
• You enjoy collaboration and being part of the team
• You can engage in constructive and healthy conflict, expressing your views openly, while maintaining respect and professionalism towards colleagues

• 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