Junior Backend Engineer - Vinted Academy

The Engineering Academy is designed to accelerate your tech career at Vinted. This intensive, hands-on programme features training sessions led by our very own experts, who will mentor and guide you through our technology and ways of working.

The programme kicks off with a 2-month induction, covering a broad range of topics - from best practices with Git to understanding how Kubernetes operates at Vinted. It’s a challenging yet rewarding experience that will give you a solid foundation to succeed in your future teams!

The Engineering Academy runs for 6 months and includes:

• 2 months of technical induction: collaborate with other Academy students in product teams, refine your skills & knowledge with a mentor & in technical workshops.
• 4 months in a real Vinted engineering team: experience day-to-day life of a Vinted engineer.
• Ongoing learning sessions: join learning sessions and build your personal skills.

You’ll be hired on a 6 months contract, with the opportunity to join Vinted permanently after completing the Academy and continue growing your career with the skills you’ve gained.

In this position, you'll

• Learn everything you need to work with one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails codebases, MySQL (Vitess) and Redis.
• Participate in extracting small, manageable components from a monolithic application.
• Learn about (and use) Grafana, Kiban, and Datadog to monitor your code.
• Have a chance to work closely with an experienced engineer who will help you grow.
• Collaborate with other engineers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
• Improve our user experience by implementing product changes, often via experimentation.
• Apply Agile and Scrum principles in your work.

• Some experience with object-oriented languages such as Ruby, Java, PHP, or similar.
• Understanding of backend frameworks (Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel, etc.) would be a plus.
• Dabbled in MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch? That’s amazing!
• Willing to learn new things.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ready to commit, own, and create.
• Have a Github account.

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
• Private health insurance
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• 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
• Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.
• Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.
• Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.