Backend Engineer, Member Lifecycle
Brief info about Vinted
Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 22 markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.
Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.
The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.
Information about the position
We are expanding our Portal team within the Member Lifecycle domain and are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer. Our team's mission is to make Vinted user base expansion seamless.
The multicultural, distributed product engineering team focuses on expanding Vinted to new countries and improving the user experience through various experiments. By joining this team, you will be surrounded by expert peers who value collaboration and innovation.
We seek a collaborative and results-oriented individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment. This role's primary responsibility is implementing product changes while modularizing and scaling our global codebase. By doing so, you will contribute to Vinted's vision of making second-hand the first choice worldwide.
In this position, you’ll
- Apply Agile and Scrum principles in your work.
- Collaborate with other engineers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
- Effectively partner across teams to prioritise and deliver results.
- Improve our user experience by implementing product changes, often via experimentation.
- Help to grow Vinted's user base by preparing our application for new markets.
- Break down large monoliths into smaller, manageable components and services.
- Make data-driven decisions.
- See your code affect 85+ million users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge.
- Work with one of the world's biggest Ruby on Rails codebases, MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch, and many more technologies, including new services in Go. We don't expect you to be familiar with any of them beforehand.
- Monitor your deployed code through Kibana, Grafana, and DataDog.
About you
- You are an experienced back-end engineer
- You are eager to learn and master new technologies and concepts
- You have a strong desire and commitment to personal and professional growth
- You are comfortable communicating effectively in both spoken and written English
- You have knowledge of system architecture and can operate on a conceptual level (e.g. evaluate short-term vs. long-term solutions) as well as drive the design of solutions in an elegant and maintainable way.
- Love keeping it simple and don’t like to over-engineer things.
- You love fixing things and, more importantly, understanding how they work.
- You can balance product and technical initiatives to deliver business value
- You are willing to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 working days of holiday
- Newest MacBook models
- Free access to an office gym
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Private health insurance
- On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at discount prices
- 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
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.
Hybrid Work
We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.
Equal Opportunity
The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
The salary range for this position is € 4683 - € 7316 gross per month.