Lead Backend (Golang) Engineer, Payments Platform

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

Job summary

A leading second-hand marketplace seeks a Lead Backend (Golang) Engineer to join their team in the UK. In this role, you will work collaboratively to build a robust and scalable financial platform, applying Agile principles and driving innovation within the team. The ideal candidate will have strong Golang expertise and a passion for technology. This position offers a hybrid work model and an attractive benefits package including share options and private health insurance.

Benefits

Share options program

25 working days of holiday

Newest MacBook models

Mental health support

Home office support

Snacks and lunch benefit

Private health insurance

Team-building events

Shopping budget on Vinted

Workation opportunities

Dog-friendly office

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering expertise, especially in Golang.
• Eager to learn new technologies and concepts.
• Excellent problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build a robust and scalable platform for Vinted Pay.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for code reviews.
• Take ownership of business metrics ensuring high availability.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Golang

Agile Principles

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Redis

Grafana

Job description

Vinted – Lead Backend (Golang) Engineer

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 – 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 – the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe.

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 searching for a Lead Backend (Golang) Engineer to join the Platform team in the Vinted Pay domain. Our goal is to build a global, revenue‑generating, multi‑service financial platform—essentially, creating Europe's biggest fintech! You’ll collaborate with experienced colleagues to build a robust and scalable platform and to empower engineers to accelerate payments innovation!

In this position, you’ll

• Work alongside backend, site reliability, and security engineers to build a robust and scalable platform.
• Shape our Golang standards.
• Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work. We don't rigidly adhere to a single framework.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews. Our pull requests move fast: time to first review is up to 13 min, average pull request cycle time (from open to merge) is up to 2 h.
• Use AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and others to improve your code.
• See your code affect millions of users almost instantly. Our main branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day.
• Work with diverse tech stack, including Golang, Ruby, AWS, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Temporal, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Apply different levels of testing: from unit to performance testing to investigate various potential bottlenecks.
• Take ownership of critical alerts and business metrics for your team to ensure our services achieve 99.99% availability.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to ensure our product performs well.

About you

• Strong Backend Expertise: You have solid backend engineering skills, with expertise in Golang.
• A Continuous Learner: You're eager to master new technologies and concepts, always ready to embrace new challenges and grow as a specialist.
• Driven and Passionate: You possess a strong passion for technology and a "can‑do" attitude.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: You think practically, choosing the best solutions, avoiding over‑engineering, and prioritizing simplicity.
• Curious Fixer: You love to fix things and, more importantly, are driven to understand how they work.
• Strategic Decision‑Maker: You effectively balance immediate needs with long‑term stability in your decisions.
• Team‑Oriented Collaborator: You prioritize collective success, actively seeking to deepen your expertise, share knowledge, and uphold best engineering practices.
• Excellent Communicator: You possess strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross‑domain teams and non‑technical stakeholders.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme.
• 25 working days of holiday.
• 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.
• Never‑ending snacks and a 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.