Lead Backend Engineer
Vinted
Lead Backend Engineer
Vinted
C2C marketplace for pre-owned fashion.
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.
As a Lead Backend Engineer in the Service Standards team, you will shape how services are built, deployed, and operated across all of Vinted. You will work closely with a team on the development of our core service framework—providing engineering teams with golden paths, robust service contracts, standardized tooling, and performance benchmarks to ensure high reliability and developer velocity at scale.
You will sit in the Service Standards team, part of the Service Ecosystem domain, reporting to the Engineering Manager of that team.
The Service Standards team is responsible for standardizing service startup, consumer APIs, and foundational backend frameworks across Vinted's engineering landscape. Within it, this is a senior individual-contributor role combining technical leadership with high autonomy—you will define architectural directions, establish best practices, and guide engineers across domains without requiring full management overhead.
You will collaborate closely with platform, observability, and product engineering teams to ensure our service framework and standards seamlessly integrate into daily workflows. Your work will directly impact developer experience, platform reliability, and system performance as Vinted continues to scale.
Workation policy
Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.
Individual learning budget
Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.
Hybrid work
Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.
Equal opportunity
We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!
The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: 93500 - 126500 EUR
Vinted is an online marketplace where people buy and sell second-hand clothing and accessories. It operates as a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) platform that lets individuals list pre-owned items for sale and others purchase them. Revenue comes mainly from a Buyer Protection fee charged on each transaction, which covers customer support, shipping tracking, and refunds. The platform targets those interested in affordable, sustainable fashion and the circular economy, appealing to users who want to declutter, discover unique items, and shop more environmentally friendly. Vinted’s approach centers on peer-to-peer re-commerce, offering a simple way to trade clothing within a global community, with a focus on accessibility and sustainability rather than new-product manufacturing.
Explore more opportunities at Vinted