Senior Backend Engineer, VGo Network
- Level
- Senior
- Apply from
- Lithuania
About the role
- Design and build scalable backend services
- Own technical initiatives from design to delivery
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Work with a diverse backend stack
- Ensure high quality through code reviews
Skills the posting asks for
- Ruby
- Go
- AWS
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.
The employer’s full posting
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
As Senior Backend Engineer in the Vinted Go Network domain, you will build backend systems that help connect Vinted members, carrier partners, and pick-up/drop-off locations across a growing logistics network.
You’ll join Vinted Go, the logistics arm of Vinted, focused on making shipping more affordable, convenient, and reliable. The Network domain works on the foundations that make domestic and cross-border shipping possible: carrier integrations, route configurations, partner-facing workflows, tracking, service availability, and the systems that support new shipping products and services at scale.
You’ll work in a cross-functional, autonomous team with product managers, designers, backend and frontend engineers, quality engineers, and data colleagues. You’ll own work from design through production, make pragmatic technical decisions, and help evolve reliable backend services that support Vinted Go’s expanding network across markets.
In this position, you’ll
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 the 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 gross monthly salary range for this position is:
€4.975—€6.725 EUR
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
As Senior Backend Engineer in the Vinted Go Network domain, you will build backend systems that help connect Vinted members, carrier partners, and pick-up/drop-off locations across a growing logistics network.
You’ll join Vinted Go, the logistics arm of Vinted, focused on making shipping more affordable, convenient, and reliable. The Network domain works on the foundations that make domestic and cross-border shipping possible: carrier integrations, route configurations, partner-facing workflows, tracking, service availability, and the systems that support new shipping products and services at scale.
You’ll work in a cross-functional, autonomous team with product managers, designers, backend and frontend engineers, quality engineers, and data colleagues. You’ll own work from design through production, make pragmatic technical decisions, and help evolve reliable backend services that support Vinted Go’s expanding network across markets.
In this position, you’ll
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
- Own technical initiatives end to end, from problem framing and system design through delivery, monitoring, and iteration.
- Develop business logic and platform capabilities that help partners manage inventory, orders, and operations at scale.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Decision Science, and other engineers to shape discovery, sequencing, and implementation.
- Work with a diverse backend stack, such as Ruby, Go, AWS, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and observability tools; you do not need to know all of it upfront.
- Write unit tests, contribute to integration and end-to-end testing, and keep quality high through code reviews and thoughtful feedback.
- Take ownership of service reliability, alerts, metrics, and incident follow-up, including participation in on-call rotations.
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve your development workflow and help the team move faster.
- Strong backend engineering experience, with a track record of building reliable systems and owning work from design through production.
- Solid experience with Ruby and/or Go, or the ability and motivation to learn Vinted's backend stack quickly.
- Good understanding of API design, database-backed systems, observability, and operating services in production.
- Pragmatic problem solver who balances delivery speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and breaking complex product or operational problems into clear technical steps.
- Collaborative and clear communicator who works well with engineers, product managers, designers, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Enjoys sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and raising engineering standards through code reviews and technical discussions.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Advantage: experience with logistics, fulfilment, partner-facing platforms, or operational workflows.
- 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
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
- 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 the 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 gross monthly salary range for this position is:
€4.975—€6.725 EUR