Backend Engineer, Security

Brief info about Vinted

Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.

The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:

Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.

Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.

Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.

Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.

Information about the position

We are expanding the Marketplace Security domain and looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join an established team dedicated to enabling member security in Vinted.

As a backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and maintaining features. Your main aim will be preparing the product for technical challenges ahead, ensuring Vinted members feel safe on the platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice. By joining Vinted you will become part of an active community of engineers who are exceptional at delivering the highest grade solutions and are keen on sharing knowledge.

Here are some of the technologies we use:

• Programming languages: Go, Ruby

• Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis

• Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack

• Streaming platform: Kafka

• CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins

• Auth: Okta, OAuth, Open Policy Agent

In this position, you’ll

• Work in a cross-functional team, contribute to team and domain-level initiatives, and shape the features to improve security for Vinted members.

• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy.

• Work on malicious actors prevention and mitigation.

• Monitor and ensure the reliability of your code.

• See your code affect millions of members almost instantly.

About you

• You have hands-on work experience in development or operations at scale. Bonus points for experience in the cybersecurity domain.

• You are driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts.

• You are aware of the newest AI solutions and can pick the best one to improve your role effectiveness.

• You are committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality.

• You have a strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge and foster a positive, cooperative environment.

• You are a good communicator, able to get your point across in spoken and written English in diverse contexts.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme

• 25 working days of holiday

• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work

• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture

• Private health insurance

• Pension plan with flexible contribution options and a matching contribution from Vinted

• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family

• Frequent team-building events

• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted

• A dog-friendly office

• In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices

• In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

Working at Vinted

Workation policy

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.

Hybrid work

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!

The gross monthly salary range for this position is:€3.758—€5.083 EUR