1 day ago
Kaunas, LithuaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and operate scalable backend services and APIs for mid-mile transport and warehouse operations.
- Own technical initiatives end to end, including problem framing, system design, delivery, monitoring, iteration, and incident follow-up.
- Make architecture and technical trade-off decisions with a 6–12 month horizon, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and technical debt.
- Help evolve the Ruby on Rails modular monolith through clearer module boundaries and well-defined APIs.
- Collaborate with Product, Operations, Decision Science, and neighboring engineering teams through discovery, RFCs, sequencing, and dependency alignment.
- Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, technical walkthroughs, documentation, onboarding, and informal mentoring.
- Own service reliability, alerts, metrics, SLOs, on-call participation, and post-incident follow-up.
- Participate in candidate interviews and help raise the engineering bar.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience building systems and owning work from design through production.
- Solid experience with Ruby or the ability and motivation to learn Vinted’s backend stack quickly.
- Good understanding of API design, database-backed systems, observability, and operating production services.
- Ability to work independently on problems of diverse scope and advise teammates on difficult technical matters.
- Pragmatic problem-solving skills with the ability to balance delivery speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and break complex product or operational problems into clear technical steps.
- Enjoyment of knowledge sharing, mentoring, feedback, and raising team engineering standards.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Experience with logistics, warehouse management, fulfillment, operational workflows, integrating software with physical devices, or modularizing a large monolith is advantageous.
Benefits
- Share options programme.
- 25 working days of holiday.
- Tools and technology needed for work.
- Home office IT equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for workplace furniture.
- Private health insurance.
- Pension plan with flexible contribution options and matching contribution from Vinted.
- 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 global days for eligible employees.
- 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
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.