Lead Backend Engineer, Trust And Safety

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

Job summary

A leading European platform for second-hand fashion is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to join their Trust and Safety team. The role involves developing tools that detect harmful content on the platform, ensuring a safe experience for users. The successful candidate will have expertise in detection automation, Ruby, and Go, and will enjoy a hybrid work environment. Benefits include share options, ample vacation days, and personalized support for home office setup.

Benefits

Share options programme

25 working days of holiday

Newest MacBook models

Mental health support

Home office support

Never ending snacks

Private health insurance

Frequent team-building events

Personal budget for shopping

Workation opportunities

Dog-friendly office

Qualifications

• Experience in developing detection automation tools, particularly in large scale environments.
• Curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts.
• Commitment to writing clean and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Work in a product team and contribute to team initiatives.
• Transform large monoliths into smaller services.
• Monitor and ensure the reliability of the code.

Skills

Detection automation

Programming in Ruby

Programming in Go

Experience with automated image detection

Strong communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

MySQL

Grafana

Kafka

Datadog

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're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Trust and Safety team. This product team is building detection tools that safeguard marketplace users from harm on the platform. We are building tools that detect counterfeits, replicas, sexual content, and illegal content automatically.

In this role, you will be instrumental in driving technical initiatives, building solutions, and developing and maintaining code components. Your primary goal will be to ensure no harmful content exists on the platform.

Are you passionate about creating a safe and trustworthy environment for our users? Vinted is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Kaunas or Vilnius. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of our platform, ensuring a positive experience for all our members.

Here are some of the technologies we use:

• Programming languages: Ruby, Go.
• Datastores: MySQL with Vitess, Redis.
• Observability: Grafana, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog.
• Streaming platform: Kafka.
• CI/CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins.

In this position, you’ll

• Work in a product team, lead and contribute to team and domain-level initiatives and shape the features to enable our detection technology.
• Transform large monoliths into smaller, component-based services, thereby promoting greater team autonomy.
• Monitor and ensure the reliability of your code.
• Actively engage during incidents and post mortems.
• Provide mentorship and support to engineers to foster their professional development.
• See your code affect 10+ million daily uses.

About you

• You have work experience in developing detection automation.
  • Bonus points if you have experience with automated image detection at scale.
• You are driven by curiosity to explore and master new technologies and concepts.
• 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 willing to take the lead in addressing issues and driving improvements, even without explicit direction.
• You are a great 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.
• Newest MacBook models.
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app.
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
• Never ending snacks and monthly lunch benefit.
• Private health insurance.
• 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.

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 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 €6,542 – €8,842 gross per month.