Backend Engineer, Vinted Pay
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
We're searching for a Backend Developer to join one of our engineering teams in the Vinted Pay domain. Our goal is to build a global, revenue-generating, multi-service financial platform—essentially, creating Europe's biggest fintech! 🤯 You'll collaborate with experienced colleagues to build KYC flows and implement AML logic for Vinted Pay.
This is a fast-paced environment at the beginning of our journey, so we embrace uncertainty. We're constantly building new services and evolving existing ones, with experimentation being key. We balance the "fail fast" principle to avoid analysis-paralysis, but we also take the time to understand the benefits of different alternatives before diving in. We're not afraid to make mistakes. We learn from them.
In this position, you’ll
- Work in a team of 4-6 engineers, engineering manager, product manager and decision scientist.
- Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work. We don't rigidly adhere to a single framework. We view Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies as tools, selecting the most beneficial one for the team to achieve its goals.
- Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Our pull requests move fast: time to first review is up to 13 min, average pull request cycle time (from open to merge) is up to 2 hours.
- Use AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and other to improve your code.
- See your code to affect millions of users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day.
- Work with diverse tech stack, including: languages: Go, Ruby; cloud infrastructure: AWS; databases/storage: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis; workflow orchestration: Temporal; monitoring/observability: Prometheus, Grafana.We don't expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand, but we expect you will be excited to learn them fast.
- Write unit tests for all of the code you write and contribute to integration and e2e test writing and its usage.
- Take ownership of critical alerts and business metrics for your team to ensure our services achieve 99.99% availability.
- You will participate in on-call rotations to ensure our product performs well.
About you
- A Continuous Learner: You're eager to master new technologies and concepts, always ready to embrace new challenges and grow as a specialist.
- Driven and Passionate: You possess a strong passion for technology and a "can-do" attitude.
- Pragmatic Problem Solver: You think practically, choosing the best solutions, avoiding over-engineering, and prioritizing simplicity.
- Curious Fixer: You love to fix things and, more importantly, are driven to understand how they work.
- Strong Backend Expertise: You have solid backend engineering skills, with experience in Ruby and/or Go being a significant advantage.
- Strategic Decision-Maker: You effectively balance immediate needs with long-term stability in your decisions.
- Team-Oriented Collaborator: You prioritize collective success, actively seeking to deepen your expertise, share knowledge, and uphold best engineering practices.
- Excellent Communicator: You possess strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-domain teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 working days of holiday
- 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
- Private health insurance
- 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 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 € 4,183 - € 6,725 gross per month.