As Vinted’s new Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining the Ontologies Platform team in the Supply domain.

The Supply 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.

Ontologies platform defines, maintains, and improves item metadata, which is then used to sell, show and search for items at Vinted; we also maintain the extensive item category tree. 

You’ll be joining a stable, impactful team of six experts in their area, most of whom have been working long enough to see the long-term effect of their initiatives, and who are at the center of Vinted’s expansion into new markets and countries.

Our team is primarily backend driven, and we also build and maintain UIs for internal users.

As a backend developer, you’ll be responsible for developing technology to improve Vinted’s item and category offering, for supporting category expansions.Changes you introduce will make Vinted better for both sellers and buyers, will reach millions of users and get thousands of RPMs.

Our daily routine is: Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Apache Jena, MySQL, Vitess, Memcached, Redis, Redis Sentinel, Kafka, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Statsd, Nginx, git, Jenkins, Docker, Datadog, Kubernetes, Chef and CentOS 7.

Some of the things we’ve done are:

• Providing tech foundation to launch all major category expansions at Vinted: Entertainment, Electronics, Collectables&Hobbies, Sports and more;
• Drastically (~10x) decreasing engineering effort necessary for category expansions;
• Collaborating with teams that own item upload, search, and navigation in order to test and introduce new features to members faster; 
• Modularizing and extracting code in our ownership to make ourselves more autonomous;
• Experimenting with non-relational databases in order to achieve product outcomes.

In this position, you will report to the team’s Engineering Manager.

• Work in a platform team. Your primary users will be internal teams, and you’ll need to ensure your solutions are both future proof and meet current needs
• Actively collaborate with engineers and taxonomists working on category expansions at Vinted
• Implement solutions that improve data completeness and searchability of items at Vinted
• Completely own your solution: design, deploy, monitor, and maintain services that you have built
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work and collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• See your code affect 85 million users almost instantly, as our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge
• Own SLIs/SLOs in the product team to ensure quality and reliability
• Be ready to partner across teams to prioritize and deliver results
• Provide direct and impactful feedback in team functions and seek feedback from team members to grow.

• You are a software engineer with a proven record of working at a product company. You know that there is no silver bullet, that simple is better than clever when it comes to code
• You are able to communicate and understand the needs of other engineers. The platform team’s main product is internal one, and you know how to build rapport, understand the pain points, and keep stakeholders informed
• You are know your way around Ruby and Rails, and know its best practices and common pitfalls, including those that come under significant load
• You are open to any technology or language if it helps you solve your problem
• Huge bonus: you have designed and shipped a graph-based solution to production.

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• 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
• A daily lunch allowance
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• A subsidised gym membership with ClassPass or Urban Sports Club
• A subsidised pension plan provided by Vinted
• Hallesche Supplemental health insurance
• Life and disability insurance provided
• A subsidised Deutschlandticket
• 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

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 € 60,600.00 - € 82,000.00 gross per year.