Backend Engineer, Vinted Pay

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Department: Engineering

Information about the position 

We're searching for a Backend Engineer to join one of our newly formed engineering teams in the Vinted Pay domain. Our goal is to build secure & reliable payments solutions for all Vinted buyers and sellers. You'll collaborate with experienced colleagues to build Identity Verification flows and Compliance measures 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.

About you 

• A Continuous Learner: You're eager to learn 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.
• Backend Expertise: You have backend engineering skills, with experience in Go being a significant advantage.
• Strategic Thinker: 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
• 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

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.