Lead Backend Engineer - Order Fulfilment

Information about the position 

We're hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to join the Order Domain team at Vinted. Our mission is to ensure every transaction on our marketplace - from logistics integrations to tracking and delivery - is smooth, reliable, and scalable.

In this role, you will be the technical anchor for our fulfilment initiatives. You won’t just be building features; you will be shaping the logic that guides our millions of members through the most critical part of their journey. Partnering closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager, you will influence the technical roadmap to ensure that as we deliver new capabilities, we are also evolving our services to be more resilient and maintainable.

You will lead the design of complex product capabilities, navigate architectural trade-offs in a high-traffic environment, and multiply the team's impact by mentoring other engineers and raising the bar for engineering excellence. This is a role for a technical leader who enjoys solving ambitious, product-driven problems through sound engineering judgment and cross-functional collaboration.

In this position, you’ll 

• Lead Technical Design: Own the architectural evolution of our Order Fulfilment services. You will lead the design and implementation of complex, high-impact product features, ensuring they are built for global scale and long-term maintainability.
• Multiply Team Impact: Act as a force multiplier for the team. You will identify and remove technical bottlenecks, unblock your peers, and provide the deep technical mentorship needed to grow senior engineers within the the team.
• Drive Technical Roadmap: Partner closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to shape the team’s roadmap. You will provide well-considered technical perspectives and effort estimates that balance ambitious product goals with architectural health.
• Own Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar for code quality, testing, and observability. You will drive the definition of SLIs/SLOs for fulfilment services and ensure the team makes pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt.
• Scale Our Tech Stack: Develop and operate distributed systems using a modern backend stack including Golang, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, and Temporal.
  

About you 

• Experienced Technical Leader: You have a proven track record of leading technical initiatives in high-traffic production environments. You are comfortable being the "architect in the room" when defining the future of product-driven services.
• Systems & Architectural Thinker: You have a holistic view of distributed systems. You understand how backend decisions impact mobile and web clients, and you excel at designing APIs that are simple to use but powerful enough to scale.
• Pragmatic & Product-Minded: You care deeply about the "why" behind the code. You approach technical challenges with a practical mindset, focusing on solving the right business problems while avoiding unnecessary over-engineering.
• Expert in Backend Technologies: You have solid backend engineering skills. While we work primarily with Go and Ruby, deep expertise in one of these or similar technologies is highly preferred.
• Clear Communicator: You can translate complex technical trade-offs into clear terms for non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Legal), ensuring alignment on the technical direction and risk profile of our initiatives.
• Passionate Mentor: You take pride in the growth of your colleagues. You are a trusted mentor who provides constructive, candid feedback and actively contributes to the betterment of Vinted’s engineering culture.

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
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistance Programme
• 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: 6900 - 9333 EUR