Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer, Vinted Pay

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23 hours ago
Vilnius, LithuaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and run identity verification, eKYC, and bank-account verification services for Vinted Pay.
  • Own third-party integrations end-to-end, including clients, callbacks, Temporal workflows, dashboards, SLA alerts, and vendor coordination.
  • Design provider routing and failure recovery to maintain verification availability during provider outages.
  • Run provider A/B tests and roll verification rules out to new markets.
  • Take ambiguous requirements from technical planning through cross-team alignment, implementation, feature-flagged rollout, and production monitoring.
  • Implement PII tagging, log masking, and GDPR retention and deletion across databases, object storage, and external providers.
  • Write unit tests and contribute to integration and end-to-end testing.
  • Own critical alerts and business metrics, participate in on-call rotations, and support verification questions from internal teams.
  • Use AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex in daily development work.

Requirements

  • Solid experience building and operating backend services in production using Go or a sufficiently similar language.
  • Hands-on experience integrating third-party APIs and handling timeouts, rate limits, inconsistent responses, and missing callbacks.
  • Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including idempotency, at-least-once delivery, workflow orchestration, and cross-service data consistency.
  • Experience designing observability through dashboards and alerts and taking ownership of production incidents.
  • Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, write technical proposals, and align multiple teams.
  • Experience handling personal data responsibly and working within compliance and regulatory constraints.
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers and provide effective code and design reviews.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Experience in payments, fintech, KYC/AML, or another regulated domain is advantageous.
  • Experience with Temporal or a similar workflow engine is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Share options programme.
  • 25 working days of holiday.
  • Home-office IT equipment and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
  • Private health insurance.
  • Pension plan with flexible contributions and employer matching.
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families.
  • Frequent team-building events and a monthly Vinted shopping budget.
  • Dog-friendly office, with location-specific gym, meals, or lunch allowances in Vilnius and Kaunas.
  • Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally, with separate provisions for non-EU citizens.
  • Hybrid work model with two recommended office days per week.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPrometheusRedisRuby

Categories

Vinted

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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