Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer, Service Standards

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16 hours ago
Kaunas, LithuaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the technical design and development of company-wide service standards and golden paths.
  • Build and maintain reusable backend libraries, tools, and scaffolding for service creation and maintenance.
  • Implement consumer API contracts, standardized startup patterns, and performance tooling in foundational frameworks.
  • Partner with backend engineers to drive framework adoption, gather feedback, and improve developer experience.
  • Collaborate with Observability and Infrastructure teams to integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience practices into service templates.
  • Embed security, privacy, and compliance guidelines into service contracts and framework templates.
  • Participate in technical design reviews, RFCs, and code reviews.
  • Write documentation and guidelines for engineers adopting the company’s golden paths.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience and solid system design skills.
  • Hands-on experience building scalable services.
  • Practical expertise designing API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
  • Interest in developer experience, tooling, and enabling other engineers through software.
  • Ability to evaluate trade-offs among maintainability, delivery speed, and technical debt.
  • Clear technical communication and constructive collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Willingness to share knowledge, participate in design discussions, and drive continuous technical improvements.

Benefits

  • Share options programme.
  • 25 working days of holiday.
  • Tools and technology needed for work.
  • Home office IT equipment and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
  • Private health insurance.
  • Pension plan with flexible contributions and Vinted matching contribution.
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Program for the employee and family.
  • Frequent team-building events.
  • Personal monthly Vinted shopping budget.
  • Dog-friendly office.
  • Vilnius office gym and in-house meals at friendly prices.
  • Kaunas office monthly lunch allowance and weekly in-house lunch and breakfast.
  • Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally; non-EU citizens may work remotely for 21 days worldwide.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
  • Hybrid work model with two recommended office days per week.

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About Vinted

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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