Senior Backend Engineer — Global Buyer Platform

Vinted; Oslo fylke; Hybrid; NOK 609,000 - 823,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options programme

25 working days of holiday

Access to tools & tech for work

Home office budget €540 for furniture

Private health insurance

Pension plan with matching

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Frequent team-building events

Personal shopping budget

Dog-friendly office

Vilnius gym & in-house meals

Kaunas lunch allowance

Job summary

Vinted seeks a backend-focused engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable services powering content visibility and search across Europe. You will work on geofenced content, cross-border liquidity metrics, and a unified platform for decision scientists.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, analysts, and other engineers, mentoring teammates and shaping the product direction while upholding engineering excellence. Fluent English and a strong backend foundation are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend software engineering experience.
• Proficient in backend languages (Go, Kotlin, Ruby, Python).
• Experience with event streaming platforms like Kafka or Flink.
• Experience with search engines and ranking technologies (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).
• Interest and experience in applying AI tools to engineering tasks.
• Strong CI/CD and automation experience (Jenkins).
• Observability and monitoring with Grafana/Kibana.
• Experience with relational and in-memory databases.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Mentoring engineers and promoting best practices.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems for content visibility and search.
• Contribute to technical direction and system design reviews.
• Scale features globally across 80+ million users with rapid production rollouts.
• Monitor and improve service performance; participate in on-call rotations.
• Lead team initiatives and collaborate with other engineering domains.
• Communicate clearly with product, analytics, and SRE teams.
• Provide technical feasibility assessments and effort estimates for roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Go/Kotlin/Ruby/Python experience

Event streaming (Kafka/Flink)

Search/retrieval/ranking (Elast/OS)

AI technologies experience

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Observability/Monitoring (Grafana/Kib)

Relational and in-memory databases

Team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

English communication

Tools

Jenkins

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Kafka / Flink

Grafana/Kibana

Job description

Vinted seeks a backend-focused engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable services powering content visibility and search across Europe. You will work on geofenced content, cross-border liquidity metrics, and a unified platform for decision scientists.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, analysts, and other engineers, mentoring teammates and shaping the product direction while upholding engineering excellence. Fluent English and a strong backend foundation are essential.