Senior Backend Engineer, Digital Growth Enablement Team

We're hiring a Backend Engineer to join the Digital Growth Enablement team in the Member Lifecycle domain at Vinted. Our team focuses on how millions of people discover Vinted online. We build the backend systems, tracking infrastructure, and content tools that connect search engines and marketing campaigns to our marketplace.

In this role, you will own the backend of our marketing CMS, develop automated SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tools to keep Vinted visible on traditional search engines and emerging AI platforms, and build the tracking systems that power our digital marketing campaigns. Every backend optimization you make directly increases Vinted's global reach and helps millions of new users discover our circular economy.

Take a look at engineering.vinted.com to see what we’re up to.

Curious who you’ll be speaking with?

You’ll meet the people behind this role early in the process: Jurgita Mačiulaitienė who leads both - Digital growth enablement and Member Acquisition - engineering teams and will be your direct manager. Evelina Švedaitė, who will guide you through the hiring process.

• Work in a team to build features that make our members’ lives better
• Develop backend solutions using technologies such as Golang, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Memcached, and Elasticsearch - you don’t need prior experience with all of them
• Contribute to backend systems that serve millions of users and support high-traffic workloads
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work, participating in planning, retrospectives, and other team ceremonies
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• Work in a data-driven environment where changes are validated through experimentation and measurable outcomes
• Contribute to technical discussions and solution design together with more senior engineers
• Help improve existing systems and services to make them simpler, more maintainable, and more reliable
• Build, test, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot backend services with support from your team
• Use tools like Grafana and Kibana to help monitor service behaviour and investigate issues
• Write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Collaborate with your team and adjacent partners to deliver features successfully

• You have professional experience (or a strong interest in learning) Ruby - which power our monolith and headless CMS
• Service extraction experience (a strong plus): You have experience tech-leading or contributing to the extraction of specific domains or packages from a monolithic codebase into decoupled, standalone services
• SEO/GEO interest (a plus): You understand web crawlability concepts, such as managing large-scale sitemaps, structuring metadata, optimizing server-side rendering, or tracking search-engine and AI bot traffic
• You’re eager to learn and excited to grow your backend engineering skills
• You enjoy improving things and proactively raising ideas when you see opportunities
• You have solid software engineering fundamentals and experience building backend applications
• You write clean, maintainable code and care about quality and testability
• You’re comfortable working with databases, APIs, and service-based systems
• You’re curious about distributed systems and architectural trade-offs, and you’re happy to learn from more senior engineers

• 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
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• 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

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.