Backend Engineer, Security

We are expanding the Marketplace Security domain and looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join an established Registration team, dedicated to enabling member security in Vinted.

As a backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and maintaining features. Your main aim will be preparing the product for technical challenges ahead, ensuring Vinted members feel safe on the platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice. By joining Vinted you will become part of an active community of engineers who are exceptional at delivering the highest grade solutions and are keen on sharing knowledge.

Here are some of the technologies we use:

Programming languages: Go, Ruby

Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis

Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack

Streaming platform: Kafka

CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins

Auth: Okta, OAuth, Open Policy Agent

In this position, you’ll

• Work in a cross-functional team, contribute to team and domain-level initiatives, and shape the features to improve security for Vinted members.
• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy.
• Work on malicious actors prevention and mitigation.
• Monitor and ensure the reliability of your code.
• See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly.

• You have hands-on work experience in development or operations at scale.
• You are driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts
• You are aware of the newest AI solutions and can pick the best one to improve your role effectiveness.
• You are committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality.
• You have a strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge and foster a positive, cooperative environment.
• You are a good communicator, able to get your point across in spoken and written English in diverse contexts.

• 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