We are expanding the Trust & Safety domain and looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Trust Experience team - the group dedicated to empowering our users, brands, and organizations to confidently identify and respond to harmful or suspicious activity on Vinted.

As our new backend software engineer, you’ll be at the core of how we keep our community safe: driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and rethinking user-facing features, and maintaining the systems that support them. Your work will prepare our product for the challenges ahead, help millions of people feel safe on our platform, and contribute to Vinted’s vision of making second-hand the first choice.

The Trust Experience team sits within the Trust & Safety domain and owns:

• User reporting flows 
• The ability to block other users
• User education related to safety and catalog rules
• Reporting capabilities for brands and organizations that need to flag concerning content on Vinted

We’re a product team with a strong cross-functional setup: iOS, Android, and Web engineers on the frontend; two backend engineers; a QA engineer; and an EPDA group consisting of a Product Manager, Product Designer, Decision Scientist, and Engineering Manager.

• Work on extracting our logic from the Vinted core monolith into a dedicated Go service and thereby promote greater team autonomy
• Design and build a completely new platform that enables brands and organizations to report content to us more easily and effectively
• Work in a cross-functional team, shape and remodel features that help our members and brands to protect themselves and others
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and thorough code reviews
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers around you, helping them grow both technically and professionally
• See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly – our master branch is deployed straight to production on each merge, and we ship many times per day
• Work with a healthy mix of battle-tested and emerging technologies such as Golang, Ruby on Rails, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, and many more

• Hands-on working experience in development or operations at scale
• Hands-on working experience with designing, building, and operating backend services in production
• Driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts
• Enthusiastic about exploring and tackling complex challenges in backend development
• You are capable of working in the team as well as independently, taking the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
• Committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge, and foster a positive, cooperative environment
• Proficient communicator in spoken and written English, comfortable collaborating with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• Experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang is a plus

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• 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 a workation
• A dog-friendly office
• In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
• In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

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 € €4,975 - € 6,725 gross per month.