Senior Backend Engineer II, Resilience
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Job description
Senior Backend Engineer II on Vinted's Platform Resilience team (Service Ecosystem domain), ensuring stable and resilient growth of the Vinted Marketplace services ecosystem. The team consists exclusively of experienced backend engineers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Netherlands
- Languages
- English – fluent
- Pay
- EUR 93,500 – 126,500 / year
What you'll do
- Develop platform capabilities that help all Marketplace engineers build scalable systems
- Investigate and improve overall system stability and performance
- Consult other engineers on how to build robust systems with high availability
- Craft code that affects more than 80M+ users and handles 10M+ requests per minute
- Participate in on-call rotation every 5-6 weeks
What we're looking for
- Experience building and supporting large-scale applications
- Good understanding of how infrastructure and code work together
- A strong communicator, skilled in discussing complex topics and collaborating across cultures in spoken and written English
- Analytical and acute problem-solving skills
- Eager to learn and master new technologies and concepts
- Familiar with most and have deep knowledge in some of the following disciplines (depending on your seniority level): Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms
- Motivated by challenging, complex engineering problems requiring deep technological understanding, perseverance, collaboration with other developers, and solutions beyond regular product development
Nice to have
- Experience with Distributed Systems, event-driven architecture, performance optimization and monitoring
Your team
Platform Resilience team (Service Ecosystem domain)
Ensuring stable and resilient growth of the Vinted Marketplace services ecosystem; the team consists exclusively of experienced backend engineers.
Benefits
Workation policy: up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally; for non-EU citizens, 21 days worldwide
- Share options programme
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- Newest MacBook models
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
- Frequent team-building events
- Home office support: IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Lunch benefit per working day
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
- NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
- Company bike leasing scheme
- Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
- Work from Home allowance
- A dog-friendly office
- Individual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over a 2-year period
- Hybrid work with 2 recommended office days a week
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About Vinted
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units: Vinted Marketplace, Europe's leading platform for second-hand fashion connecting millions of members across 20+ markets; Vinted Go, enhancing the shipping experience with over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points and partnerships with more than 60 carriers across Europe; and Vinted Pay, bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted became Lithuania's first unicorn in 2019; headquarters remain in Vilnius, with offices across Europe.
Mission
Help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
Key facts
- over 2,000 people
- 2008
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Founded in 2008 in Lithuania
- Became Lithuania's first unicorn in 2019
- Headquarters in Vilnius with offices across Europe
- Team of over 2,000 people
- Vinted Marketplace connects millions of members across 20+ markets
- Vinted Go has over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points and partners with more than 60 carriers across Europe