Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety

VINTED; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading platform for second-hand fashion in London seeks a Backend Engineer for the Trust Experience team. The role involves developing services to ensure user safety and enabling reporting functionalities. Ideal candidates will have experience in backend development, strong communication skills, and a commitment to clean code. This position offers a hybrid work model and a salary range of €3,558 – €4,808 gross per month.

Benefits

Share options program

25 vacation days

Home office support

Private health insurance

Mental health support

Team-building events

Personal shopping budget

Workation opportunity

Dog-friendly office

Gym at Vilnius office

Qualifications

• Hands-on working experience in development at scale.
• Experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang is a plus.
• Committed to writing clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Extract logic from the Vinted core monolith into a dedicated Go service.
• Design and build a new platform for reporting content.
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers.
• Collaborate on GitHub pull requests and code reviews.

Skills

Backend development

Curiosity for new technologies

Collaboration

Proficient communication in English

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Golang

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.

Information about the position

We are expanding the Trust & Safety domain and looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Trust Experience team – the group dedicated to empowering our users, brands, and organizations to confidently identify and respond to harmful or suspicious activity on Vinted.

As our new backend software engineer, you’ll be at the core of how we keep our community safe: driving technical initiatives, building new services, developing and rethinking user‑facing features, and maintaining the systems that support them. Your work will prepare our product for the challenges ahead, help millions of people feel safe on our platform, and contribute to Vinted’s vision of making second‑hand the first choice.

Trust Experience team responsibilities

• User reporting flows
• The ability to block other users
• User education related to safety and catalog rules
• Reporting capabilities for brands and organizations that need to flag concerning content on Vinted

We’re a product team with a strong cross‑functional setup: iOS, Android, and Web engineers on the frontend; two backend engineers; a QA engineer; and an EPDA group consisting of a Product Manager, Product Designer, Decision Scientist, and Engineering Manager.

In this position, you’ll

• Work on extracting our logic from the Vinted core monolith into a dedicated Go service and thereby promote greater team autonomy
• Design and build a completely new platform that enables brands and organizations to report content to us more easily and effectively
• Work in a cross‑functional team, shape and remodel features that help our members and brands to protect themselves and others
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and thorough code reviews
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers around you, helping them grow both technically and professionally
• See your code affect 80+ million users almost instantly – our master branch is deployed straight to production on each merge, and we ship many times per day
• Work with a healthy mix of battle‑tested and emerging technologies such as Golang, Ruby on Rails, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, and many more

About you

• Hands‑on working experience in development or operations at scale
• Driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts
• Enthusiastic about exploring and tackling complex challenges in backend development
• Committed to writing clean, maintainable code with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Strong inclination to collaborate with team members, share knowledge, and foster a positive, cooperative environment
• Willingness to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction
• Proficient communicator in spoken and written English, comfortable collaborating with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• Experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang is a plus

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
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• 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 a workation
• A dog‑friendly office
• In Vilnius office: Gym & in‑house meals at friendly prices

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 salary range for this position is €3,558 – €4,808 gross per month.