Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Experience

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3 days ago
Vilnius, LithuaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend services, tooling, and frameworks that make software development and delivery fast, safe, and reliable.
  • Explore and integrate AI-assisted workflows, coding agents, guardrails, conventions, context, and evaluation frameworks into the software development lifecycle.
  • Improve cloud development environments and automated CI/CD and pull-request pipelines to accelerate engineering feedback loops.
  • Write clean, modular, maintainable code with unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform services, identify performance bottlenecks, and lead complex issue and incident resolution.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, document technical proposals, and drive consensus and adoption across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend systems and distributed services in production.
  • Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs, system stability, boundaries, and interfaces.
  • Practical experience using AI tools and understanding LLM limitations and failure modes, with the ability to design appropriate guardrails and scaffolding.
  • Ability to take ambiguous engineering problems from structured milestones through completion with high autonomy.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, providing actionable feedback, and collaborating across teams.
  • Understanding of application interaction with infrastructure and experience instrumenting services with metrics, traces, and logs.
  • Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate technical ideas through documentation, RFCs, and discussions.
  • Hands-on experience with Go, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, or cloud infrastructure is a plus.
  • Prior Platform, Developer Tooling, CI/CD, or Developer Experience experience is a plus.
  • Experience integrating LLM APIs, coding agents, or developer productivity workflows into development pipelines is a plus.

Benefits

  • Share options programme, 25 working days of holiday, private health insurance, and a confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
  • Work equipment plus up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
  • Frequent team-building events, a monthly Vinted shopping budget, and dog-friendly offices.
  • Vilnius office offers a gym and in-house meals at friendly prices; Kaunas office offers a monthly lunch allowance plus weekly in-house lunch and breakfast.
  • Remote workation of up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 global days; non-EU citizens may work up to 21 days worldwide.
  • 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.
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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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