3 days ago
Kaunas, LithuaniaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Complete a two-month technical induction with workshops, mentoring, and collaboration in product teams.
- Work for four months in a Vinted engineering team and learn to contribute to a large Ruby on Rails codebase.
- Participate in extracting small, manageable components from a monolithic application.
- Implement product changes and improve user experience, often through experimentation.
- Use Grafana, Kiban, and Datadog to monitor code.
- Collaborate through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
Requirements
- Some experience with object-oriented languages such as Ruby, Java, PHP, or similar.
- Understanding of backend frameworks such as Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Laravel is preferred.
- Some exposure to MySQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch is preferred.
- Some coding skills, a willingness to learn, and an interest in engineering.
- Problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- A GitHub account and readiness to commit, take ownership, and create.
Benefits
- Six-month contract running from the academy programme, with an opportunity to join Vinted permanently afterward.
- Spring Academy begins March 1, 2027; full-time availability is expected, with a 0.8 contract option possible for university students.
- Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
- Up to 90 EU remote-work days per year, including up to 21 days globally, subject to the stated workation policy.
- 25 working days of holiday.
- Share options programme, private health insurance, and confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
- Access to work tools and technology, team-building events, and a personal monthly Vinted shopping budget.
- Dog-friendly offices, with gym and in-house meals in Vilnius and lunch benefits in Kaunas.
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About Vinted
Vinted runs a consumer-to-consumer marketplace and app for buying and selling second-hand fashion and related items across Europe. It monetizes through transaction-related fees, buyer protection, and shipping services, and also operates Vinted Go for logistics and Vinted Pay for payments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the platform serves members in 20+ European markets.