Staff Engineer, Supply

Information about the position 

Join our dynamic team within the Supply domain and become a pivotal technical leader, shaping our strategic direction and driving innovative solutions. Your role will involve tackling diverse challenges, fostering effective communication across the organisation, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our solutions.

As a key member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with talented individuals. Reporting to the Engineering Director, you'll not only lead technically but also contribute to the domain's overall engineering success.

In this role, you'll have the chance to work with technologies such as Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. This is an exciting opportunity for those passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and making a real difference in a collaborative and innovative environment. Join us and be part of our journey towards excellence!

In this position, you’ll 

• Work closely with domain leadership, drive co-creation of the domain's engineering strategy, and ensure that our technology strategy aligns with the product vision.
• Work closely with engineers, improve and own the Supply domain part of Vinted Marketplace. 
• Collaborate with leadership to set the best practices for software engineering.
• Be a voice of the engineering team and a technical leader when it comes to initiating and supporting projects across the domain and the whole organisation.
• Create and maintain a technical roadmap for the domain, and ensure teams within the domain are involved in executing it.
• Collaborate with other domains on overarching deliverables and shared technical responsibilities.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.

About you 

• You have a proven track record as a technical engineering leader (Staff/Principal equivalent), having successfully defined, led, and delivered major, company-wide technical initiatives.
• You can effectively communicate complex technical goals to both internal and external audiences.
• You can drive a clear architectural vision by collaborating and iterating on software design.
• You are excellent at communicating in spoken and written English.
• You are willing to take on new challenges and constantly grow as an engineer and leader.
• You have experience with high-scale, distributed systems and are willing to work with Go, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and more. We don't expect you to be familiar with any of them beforehand.
• You have experience building and maintaining systems at a massive scale (e.g., handling 2+ million requests per minute), with deep knowledge of observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog) and a passion for introducing new practices.

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• A daily lunch allowance
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• A subsidised gym membership with ClassPass or Urban Sports Club
• A subsidised pension plan provided by Vinted
• Hallesche Supplemental health insurance
• Life and disability insurance provided
• A subsidised Deutschlandticket
• 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 Vinted 

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.