Backend Engineer, Security

Title: Backend Engineer, Security Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Information about the position 

We are expanding the Marketplace Security domain and looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join an established team dedicated to enabling member security in Vinted.

As a backend software engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and maintaining features. Your main aim will be preparing the product for technical challenges ahead, ensuring Vinted members feel safe on the platform, and contributing to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice. By joining Vinted you will become part of an active community of engineers who are exceptional at delivering the highest grade solutions and are keen on sharing knowledge.

Here are some of the technologies we use:

• Programming languages: Go, Ruby
• Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis
• Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack
• Streaming platform: Kafka
• CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins
• Auth: Okta, OAuth, Open Policy Agent

In this position, you’ll 

• Work in a cross-functional team, contribute to team and domain-level initiatives, and shape the features to improve security for Vinted members.
• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy.
• Work on malicious actors prevention and mitigation.
• Monitor and ensure the reliability of your code.
• See your code affect millions of members almost instantly.

About you 

• You have hands-on work experience in development or operations at scale. Bonus points for experience in the cybersecurity domain.
• You are driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts.
• You are aware of the newest AI solutions and can pick the best one to improve your role effectiveness.
• You are committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality.
• You have a strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge and foster a positive, cooperative environment.
• You are a good communicator, able to get your point across in spoken and written English in diverse contexts.

Work perks 

• 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
• Pension plan with flexible contribution options and a matching contribution from Vinted
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• 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

Working at Vinted 

Workation policy 

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.

Hybrid work 

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!