Backend Engineer, Engineering Experience
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 20+ 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're looking for a Backend Engineer to join the VITA team – a suite of tools designed to help Vinted engineers with on-call rotations, incident management and observability. This is an opportunity to work on a modern backend stack, helping shape reliability tooling across the company.
In this position, you’ll
- Design and build backend systems in Go, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability
- Develop and optimize services that expose GraphQL APIs and interact with MySQL databases, observability systems (Thanos, Elasticsearch) and integrate with other services such as Slack, PagerDuty and Backstage
- Work with Temporal workflows to orchestrate distributed systems and background jobs
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver resilient observability and reliability tooling
- Improve architectural decisions, testing strategy, and performance of core services
- Contribute to the overall direction of backend systems powering VITA
- Work in a high-impact area influencing how engineering is done across Vinted
About you
- Have experience in building backend services at scale
- Have experience working with SQL databases, designing and optimizing schemas and queries
- Care deeply about writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Take initiative, ownership, and enjoy solving complex system-level problems
- Have excellent communication skills in English and work well in cross-functional teams
Nice to Have
- Experience in Go (Golang)
- Background in observability tools or infrastructure (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Familiarity with building engineer-focused internal tooling
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
- Never ending snacks and monthly lunch benefit
- 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 €3,558 - €4,808 gross per month.