Brief info about Vinted
Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.
Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.
Information about the position
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer II to join the Order Technologies team in Vinted’s Order domain. The Order domain powers core post-purchase experience at Vinted, covering everything from shipping, delivery and resolution to payout flows. It’s where trust in the marketplace becomes real: money needs to move correctly, orders need to progress reliably, and when complexity arises, our systems need to handle it with clarity and resilience.
Within this space, the Order Technologies team is tasked with enhancing code quality and maintainability in the Orders domain. We are leading a company-wide initiative to transform the monolithic system into efficient, standalone services utilizing Go. Our dedication is towards minimizing technical debt in the Order domain and across Vinted. Currently, the team is composed of 5 senior backend engineers and a technical engineering manager. The team's focus is solely on technical initiatives, such as code refactoring and backend modularization, rather than developing business features. Consequently, the team is composed entirely of backend engineers, unlike the usual autonomous "feature teams" commonly found at Vinted.
This role is for someone who enjoys solving complex backend problems in high-impact systems, someone who can go deep technically, make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous spaces, and help others move faster through strong collaboration and engineering judgment.
In this position, you’ll
- Work in a team of 5 engineers and an engineering manager.
- 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, Codex, 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.
- Apply domain-driven-design and clean architecture principles while building the new Order services to optimise for service maintainability and extendibility.
- Work with diverse tech stack, including: languages: Go, Ruby; infrastructure: on-premise; databases/storage: MySQL, Redis, Vitess, Kafka; 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.
- Drive and own solving of the complex technical problems by doing technical discoveries and cross-team collaboration.
- 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.
- 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
About you
- 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.
- Experienced in building highly extendable and maintainable applications: Experience applying domain-driven-design and clean architecture principles in complex large backend systems is preferred.
- 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.
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 € 6,542 - € 8,842 gross per month.
