Senior Backend engineer, Quality Engineering

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 

We’re hiring a Backend engineer to join the Quality Engineering team at Vinted Platform unit. Our team mission is to deliver tooling and golden paths for effective quality assurance across Vinted.

Our team has recently enabled the organization to completely change how they automate Frontend tests, delivering the necessary infrastructure and handing it over to the Frontend developers. We are currently focusing on how to take Backend testing to the next level, in parallel to the company’s ongoing modularization initiative and edge deployments, and AI testing harness. We also work on collecting and displaying quality metrics in a way that’s useful both to leadership and to engineering. We own quite a few tools used in Vinted’s quality assurance. Some of them are built by us in-house (e.g. test reporting and flaky test management, test app distribution) and have received very positive feedback from the engineers! Others are purchased or open source solutions, with our additional functionality on top.

As a member of this team, you will suggest, design and implement solutions for fast and reliable quality assurance and ensure their successful adoption across the organization - or contribute to such solutions designed by others, depending on your skill level (we are open to both Senior candidates with relevant experience and to talented engineers who are up to the challenge to grow to the position).

In this position, you’ll 

• Work in a highly senior team that builds and owns solutions for effective quality assurance and quality tracking across Vinted
• Identify gaps in our current quality assurance state and suggest solutions
• Develop new tools, frameworks and services and contribute to existing ones using technologies such as Golang, Kotlin, Kafka, BigQuery, Looker, Grafana and others
• Collaborate with other teams such as Development Environments & AI, CI/CD and Backend Services as needed to achieve your goals
• Explore, adopt and enable AI-assisted approaches for your own delivery and to improve the efficiency and quality of others
• Own the adoption of your solutions

About you 

• You have solid software engineering fundamentals and experience
• You write clean, maintainable and testable code
• You are passionate about quality, testing and engineering experience
• You enjoy improving things and proactively raise ideas when you see opportunities
• You use AI to boost your work
• It’s a plus if you have experience working in platform-like teams
• It’s a plus if you have experience in quality assurance or test automation

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
• 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

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.

The gross monthly salary range for this position is:

€4.975—€6.725 EUR