Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer, Vinted Pay

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1 day ago
Kaunas, LithuaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate identity verification, eKYC, and bank account verification systems for Vinted Pay.
  • Develop third-party integrations, including clients, callbacks, durable workflows, dashboards, SLA alerts, and vendor coordination.
  • Design provider-routing and resiliency systems that handle outages, retries, provider health, and traffic distribution.
  • Run provider A/B tests and roll verification rules out to new markets.
  • Own technical work end-to-end from ambiguous requirements and written plans through 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 and development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

Requirements

  • Solid experience building and running 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 concepts including idempotency, at-least-once delivery, workflow orchestration, and cross-service data consistency.
  • Experience creating dashboards and alerts and responding to production incidents.
  • Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, write technical proposals, and align multiple teams.
  • Ability to handle personal data responsibly and work 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.
  • Payments, fintech, KYC/AML, or other regulated-domain experience 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 a personal budget of up to €540 for 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 gym and in-house meals in Vilnius and lunch benefits in 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.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
  • Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
  • The gross monthly salary range is €5.250—€7.100 EUR.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPrometheusRedisRuby

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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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