Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety (Detection)
- Vilnius
- Kaunas
Brief info 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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.
Information about the position
The Trust Domain safeguards members from critical safety threats by building world-class safety tools and ensuring a secure experience on the Vinted Marketplace. It does so by detecting and restricting harmful activities. The domain consists of several teams focused on detection and actioning, enabling accurate identification and swift response to safety risks.
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to strengthen the detection capability. You will be joining the Detection Product team, with a mission to protect the Vinted community from harmful activities and content.
Take a look at engineering.vinted.com to see what we’re up to.
Here are some of the technologies we use:
- Streaming platforms: Flink, Kafka.
- Programming languages: Go, Scala.
- Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis
- Observability: Grafana, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins
In this position, you’ll
- Work closely with data scientists and product managers to productionise detection logic, ML-driven solutions, and experiments
- Improve the scalability, latency, and resilience of systems that process large volumes of streaming, behavioural, and risk signals
- Contribute to experimentation and rollout mechanisms that allow the team to safely test and validate new detection approaches
- Monitor your deployed code through tools like Kibana, Grafana
- Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work and collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
- Own SLIs/SLOs in the product team to ensure quality and reliability.
- Be ready to partner across teams to prioritize and deliver results.
About you
- You have solid backend engineering skills, with experience in Golang, Scala, or Ruby being a significant advantage.
- You are willing to learn and excel at streaming technologies and concepts. Flink as an example.
- You love to improve things, and if you see something that needs improvement, you actively bring it to the table.
- You enjoy working collaboratively in a team, giving and receiving feedback, and helping others grow.
- You are a good communicator who can talk clearly about complicated topics both with business people and engineers.
- You can engage in constructive and healthy conflict, expressing your views openly, while maintaining respect and professionalism towards colleagues.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- Newest MacBook models
- Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Frequent team-building events
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- A daily lunch allowance
- ClassPass (Gym Membership subsidy)
- Pension plan with total contribution of 12%, 8% by the Company and 4% by employee
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- An NS mobility card
- 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.