Backend Engineer, Buyer

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 22 markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Buyer domain. We are the central hub for finding and listing products and providing insights for optimisation. The domain connects buyers with products, optimises the shopping experience, and promotes successful transactions through a user-friendly platform with advanced search features and personalised recommendations.

We are looking for a backend engineer for the Search Subdomain team. This team offers a personalised, efficient search experience, enabling members to express their needs in their own words (or images) and retrieve and rank the most relevant matches available for purchase. In addition, the team owns a solution that controls international connections and item visibility.

Our team consists of all roles required to fulfil our area’s development needs: multiple backend engineers, iOS, WEB, Android, test automation engineers, decision- and data scientists, a designer and a product manager.

In this position, you’ll

• Implement and shape search-related features that positively impact our 80+ million users.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Code changes are rolled out instantly to production.
• Monitor your deployed code through Kibana, Grafana, Datadog.
• The team owns and monitors service layer measurements (SLI, SLO, etc.) and has an on-call rotation. You would be a part of it.
• Work closely with engineering and product managers, frontend engineers, analytics, and other stakeholders in order to deliver features.

About you

• Hands-on working experience in software engineering, familiarity with distributed systems, service oriented architecture.
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• You have a strong willingness and motivation to learn new technologies, e.g. Vespa search engine, Redis, Kubernetes etc.
• Good communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with teams across domains and bring to the table improvements.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

Vinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 10-13.2% of your annual salary to be invested in your continuous professional development. You’ll be able to take the initiative to use it for covering relevant learning activities that benefit your role.

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.

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 - €6,725 gross per month.

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