Information about the positionIn Payments, backend software engineers work in Product Engineering teams. The teams have all the competences 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.Team Vinted is looking for a backend software engineer who's skilled at writing elegant code and likes to work on big-scale projects that impact millions of payments.Your main aim will be preparing our product for the challenges that lie ahead and making sure it contributes to the Vinted vision: make second-hand the first choice worldwide, while working at the very heart of our system - Payments.Take a look at to see what we're up to.In this position, you'll
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
Write unit tests (RSpec) for all of the code you write. We have >10000 tests which run in ~5 minutes through our Jenkins setup
See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge.
Work with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch and many more technologies. We don't expect you to be familiar with any of them beforehand, but we expect you will be excited to learn them
We monitor our code through Kibana, Grafana, Datadog and new tools that you will introduce. :)
About you
You should be willing to learn and master new technologies and concepts
We expect you to be driven and passionate about technology
Able to think pragmatically and choose the best option
You don't like to over-engineer things and love keeping it simple
Love to fix things, and more importantly - understand how they work
You are willing to take on new challenges and constantly grow as a person
Work perks
The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
25 working days of holiday
Newest MacBook models
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
A daily lunch allowance
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
Working at VintedIndividual Learning BudgetVinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 13.2% of your annual salary to be invested in your continuous professional development. You'll be able to take the initiative to use it for covering relevant learning activities that benefit your role.Hybrid WorkWe'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 OpportunityThe 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 may well be just who we need. We're looking for backend software engineers to join Vinted Payments Product Engineering in their work. We have a few positions available and we are looking for specialists with varying experience - from senior to lead backend engineer.If you're interested, contact us and we will be in touch with you.
