Senior Backend Engineer, Marketplace Payments

In Payments, backend software engineers work in Product Engineering teams. The teams have all the competencies to drive decisions and delivery. Usually, teams consist of backend engineers, QA, Engineering Manager, Decision Scientist and Product Manager. Backend software engineers are the ones who implement business logic which integrates both with Vinted Marketplace and third-party providers.  We already have multiple services running and we are planning to expand here allowing teams to work autonomously and deliver product features fast. Backend software engineers are also responsible for growing our backend platform to handle a wider scale.

Vinted is searching for a Senior Backend Engineer who’s skilled in writing elegant code and to work on large-scale projects that impact millions of payments, with the goal of preparing our product for future challenges and advancing our vision of making second-hand the first choice worldwide, specifically within our core Payments system. A new member will join one of our marketplace payments domain teams to work jointly on ensuring smooth money movement, ledger functions and report integrations by building core platform and payment capabilities to support business logic and delivery of high integrity commitments to the whole Marketplace.

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

• Work in a team and shape the features to make our members’ experience with payments better
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
• See your code to affect 80+ million users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day.
• Work with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Temporal and many more technologies. We don't expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand, but we expect you will be excited to learn them
• Write unit tests (RSpec) for all of the code you write. We have >10000 tests which run in ~5 minutes through our Jenkins setup. You will contribute to integration and e2e test writing and their usage
• Monitor our code through Kibana, Grafana,Jaeger, well defined alerting process and new tools that you will introduce
• Take ownership of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and other Business Metrics within the product team to assure our services reliability and correct performance
• As a trusted Senior Backend Engineer, you will participate in on-call rotations to ensure our product performs well

• You should be willing to learn and master new technologies and concepts, embracing new challenges to grow as a specialist and person.
• We expect you to be driven and passionate about technology, with a can-do attitude.
• Able to think pragmatically and choose the best option, avoiding over-engineering and keeping things simple.
• Love to fix things, and more importantly, understand how they work.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with experience in Ruby being an advantage.
• You effectively balance short-term needs with long-term stability in your decisions.
• You prioritize the collective success of the team and organization, actively seeking to deepen your expertise, share knowledge, and uphold best engineering practices.
• You have excellent communication skills and can collaborate effectively with teams across different domains and with non-technical stakeholders.

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at discount prices
• 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

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.

The salary range for this position is € 4,975 - € 6,725 gross per month.

If this sounds interesting, you could be exactly who we're looking for!