As our new Staff Engineer for Service Capabilities, you will be part of a group of platform-oriented Staff Engineers, who are focused on setting and guiding the delivery of the technical strategy of the Vinted backend platform. You will work alongside other Platform Staff Engineers ranging from Frontends to Quality Assurance to Infrastructure, reporting to the Senior Staff Engineer of Marketplace Platforms, where you will have the opportunity to own, shape, and guide the technical direction of the Marketplace Service Ecosystem.

Think you’re up to the challenge? Read on.

• Own the vision for technologies that enable a distributed service architecture.
• Own the technical strategy initiative roadmap.
• Set the standards for building and connecting services in Vinted Marketplace.
• Lead improvements and innovations in engineering practices while acting as a force multiplier.
• Collaborate deeply with platform teams and other staff engineers to unblock the delivery of the technical initiatives.
• Represent the Service Capabilities technological area within the Staff/Principal Engineer layer.
• Interface with Production Engineering, Engineering Experience and other domains that provide infrastructure, platforms, and tooling for Vinted Marketplace.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with technical expertise.

• Extensive prior experience as an architect or a staff engineer, having delivered cross-team technical initiatives in organizations of scale.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and their effects on systems and engineering organizations.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems including asynchronous communication, message brokers, eventual consistency.
• Deeply familiar with the entire lifecycle of software systems at scale, from development and deployment to maintenance and deprecation.
• Demonstrable expertise in designing and implementing effective technical strategies.
• Ability to delegate refinement and implementation of the technical initiatives to engineers in your organization.
• Sharp communication skills and an ability to discuss complex topics in detail, while building relationships, alignment and consensus across functions and departments.

• 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 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 € 8,008 - € 10,833 gross per month.