3 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems for content visibility and search.
- Lead technical direction, system design reviews, code quality, and technical initiatives within the team.
- Build and roll out A/B-tested features globally for more than 80 million users.
- Own service performance, stability, monitoring, SLIs, SLOs, and participation in the on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with Search, Recommender relevance, Product, Analytics, SRE, and other engineering teams.
- Provide technical feasibility assessments, identify risks, estimate effort, and contribute to the product roadmap.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Extensive backend software engineering experience building scalable, distributed, and highly available systems.
- Strong backend engineering foundation, with experience in or willingness to learn Go, Kotlin, Ruby, or Python.
- Experience with event streaming and real-time data processing platforms such as Kafka or Apache Flink.
- Search engine, information retrieval, or ranking optimization experience with technologies such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch is highly advantageous.
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines and tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana, including defining SLIs and SLOs.
- Experience working with relational and in-memory databases.
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Share options programme, 30 days of paid annual leave, lunch benefit, monthly Vinted shopping budget, and team-building events.
- Newest MacBook models and IT workstation equipment, plus up to €540 for home-office furniture.
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program, subsidised gym membership, pension matching at 150% of the chosen contribution, supplemental private health insurance, life and disability insurance, and a subsidised Deutschlandticket.
- Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally, 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.
- Dog-friendly office.
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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.