3 days ago
Netherlands (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and scale reliable backend systems for content visibility and search mechanisms.
- Contribute to technical direction, lead system design reviews, and ensure maintainable, high-quality code.
- Develop and roll out A/B-tested features supporting Vinted’s global user base.
- Own service performance and stability, including monitoring, service-level measurements, and on-call participation.
- Lead technical initiatives and collaborate on integrations with Search and Recommender relevance teams.
- Work with engineering managers, product managers, analysts, and other stakeholders on technical feasibility, risks, estimates, and roadmap planning.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence and collaborative practices.
Requirements
- Extensive backend software engineering experience designing and building scalable, distributed, and highly available systems.
- Strong backend engineering foundations; experience with Go, Kotlin, Ruby, or Python is beneficial.
- Experience with event streaming or real-time processing platforms such as Kafka or Apache Flink.
- Experience with search engines, information retrieval, and ranking technologies such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch is highly advantageous.
- Understanding of continuous integration and deployment pipelines, with experience using tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana.
- Experience working with relational and in-memory databases.
- Strong collaboration, communication, mentoring, and engineering best-practice skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Interest in using and experimenting with AI technologies and tools to improve engineering outcomes.
Benefits
- Share options programme.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- Newest MacBook models.
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
- Frequent team-building events.
- IT workstation equipment and up to €540 for home-office furniture.
- Daily lunch allowance, bike leasing scheme, flexible benefits budget, work-from-home allowance, pension plan, Vinted shopping budget, NS mobility card, and dog-friendly office.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 global days, with 21 worldwide days for non-EU citizens.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
- Hybrid work model with two recommended office days per week.
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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.