Senior Backend Engineer II, Resilience

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.

About the Position

As Vinted's new Senior Backend Engineer II, you'll be joining the Platform Resilience team (Service Ecosystem domain). The purpose of our team is ensuring stable and resilient growth of the Vinted Marketplace services ecosystem. The team consists exclusively of experienced backend engineers, ensuring you always have someone to discuss your ideas with.

Here are some of the technologies we use: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Golang, MySQL, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elastic APM, Datadog, Backstage, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Unix/Linux, Istio, ArgoCD.

Take a look at https://vinted.engineering/ to get a sense of our challenges.

In This Position, You'll

• Develop platform capabilities that help all Marketplace engineers build scalable systems.
• Investigate and improve overall system stability and performance.
• Consult other engineers on how to build robust systems with high availability.
• Craft code that affects more than 80M+ users and handles 10M+ requests per minute.
• Participate in on-call rotation every 5-6 weeks.

About You

• Experience building and supporting large-scale applications.
• Good understanding of how infrastructure and code work together.
• A strong communicator, skilled in discussing complex topics and collaborating across cultures in spoken and written English.
• Analytical and acute problem-solving skills.
• Eager to learn and master new technologies and concepts.
• Familiar with most and have deep knowledge in some of the following disciplines (depending on your seniority level): Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms.
• You are motivated by challenging, complex engineering problems requiring deep technological understanding, perseverance, collaboration with other developers, and solutions beyond regular product development.
• Advantage: experience with Distributed Systems, event-driven architecture, performance optimization and monitoring.

Work Perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Workation policy: 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.

Individual learning budget: 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.

Hybrid work: 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.

Equal opportunity: We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you're excited about a role, but don't identify with every point in the 'About you' section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!

The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: €93.500 — €126.500 EUR