Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety

Information about the position 

We are expanding the Trust domain and are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our newly established team dedicated to empower our users to confidently identify and correctly respond to harm exposure.

As our new backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing new features and maintaining existing ones. Your main aim will be preparing our product for the challenges ahead, ensuring our members are feeling safe on our platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice.

Also, by joining Vinted you’ll become part of an active community of engineers who are keen on sharing knowledge, organizing learning workshops and so much more! Take a look at engineering.vinted.com to see what we’re up to.

In this position, you’ll 

• Work in a cross-functional team and shape the features to make our members’ lives better
• Lead team and domain-level initiatives contributing to a safer environment for our members
• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers to foster their professional development
• See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly. Our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy 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
• Craft the code which can handle more than 2M requests per minute
• Utilize Kibana, Grafana, and other observability tools to monitor code effectiveness

About you 

• Hands-on working experience in development or operations at scale
• Driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts
• Enthusiastic about exploring and tackling complex challenges in backend development
• 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
• Willingness to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
• Proficient communicator in spoken and written English, comfortable collaborating with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• Experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang is a plus

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• 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
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at friendly prices
• 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 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 € 3,558 - € 4,808 gross per month.