Brief info about Vinted

We’re looking for Senior Backend Engineer to join the Order domain within Vinted Marketplace Engineering.

The Order domain powers the core post-purchase experience at Vinted, covering everything from payouts to shipping, delivery, and issue resolution. Its teams build the systems that make transactions secure, reliable, and scalable, regulatory compliance, and expansion across markets.

In this role, you will solve complex technical problems, improve system scalability and reliability, and contribute your expertise to important initiatives across the domain. Working closely with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, you will help build solutions that support business goals, raise engineering quality, and support other engineers through hands-on collaboration and feedback.
By strengthening the Order domain’s foundations, you’ll help Vinted make second-hand the first choice by building technology that enables geo-expansion and scalability.

• Work in a team of 5-8 engineers, engineering manager, product manager and decision scientist.
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Our pull requests move fast.
• Use AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and others 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. With deployments many times per day.
• Work with diverse tech stack, including: languages: Ruby, Go; infrastructure: on-premise; databases/storage: MySQL, 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 99.9% availability.
• You will participate in on-call rotations to ensure our product performs well.
• Work on extracting services from the core order systems and solve the complex technical problems that come with it.
• Contribute deep technical expertise to important initiatives, provide technical feedback, and help make sound engineering decisions.
• Improve engineering quality and support other engineers through hands-on collaboration, feedback, and mentoring.

Your future fellow engineers in Order are defining what they do as follows:

• “There are relatively few opportunities in Lithuania where the scale and complexity of the systems require such a high level of care and engineering discipline. This is one of them. The role calls for deep expertise, a strong understanding of the broader purpose behind the work, and a constant mindset of asking how things can be improved. For someone looking for a meaningful challenge in a supportive, growth-oriented, and high-impact environment, this is a particularly compelling opportunity.” - Kazimieras
• “I enjoy being the person others come to for difficult technical problems, especially when the path forward is not obvious. The role gives me the opportunity to combine deep technical work, strong execution, and practical improvements that make the system and the team more effective over time.” - Šarūnas

• Continuous and Passionate Learner: You're eager to master new technologies and concepts, driven by a strong passion for technology and a "can-do" attitude, always ready to embrace new challenges and grow as a specialist.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: You think practically, choosing the best solutions while avoiding over-engineering. Your love for fixing things is driven by a deep desire to understand how they work.
• Backend Expert with Strategic Decision-Making: You have solid backend engineering skills, familiarity with Ruby and Go is beneficial but not required, and you balance immediate needs with long-term stability in your strategic decisions.
• Collaborative and Communicative Team Player: You prioritize collective success, actively deepening your expertise, sharing knowledge, and upholding best engineering practices. Strong communication skills enable you to collaborate effectively with cross-domain teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Holistic and Systematic Thinker: You have a deep understanding and experience of building the complex systems and can strategically navigate how different components interact, guiding architectural decisions.
• Mentor and Knowledge Sharer: Your mentorship leaves a lasting impact, empowering others to excel and grow by sharing deep technical insights and fostering a culture of knowledge exchange.
• Cross-Functional Bridge Builder: You excel at aligning teams from different functional areas, ensuring cohesive collaboration to drive impactful outcomes.
• Proactive Innovator: You identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency, leveraging new technologies to enhance capabilities.

• 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 € 6,542 - € 8,842 gross per month.