Staff Engineer, Marketplace Payments

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Information about the position 

Join our dynamic team within the Marketplace Payments domain and become a pivotal technical leader, shaping our strategic direction and driving innovative solutions for one of Vinted’s most critical business units. As we expand our technical leadership, you will play a key role in supporting the increasing complexity of our payments ecosystem, ensuring a unified technical vision while providing dedicated architectural support.

In this role, you will report directly to the Business Unit (BU) Director of Engineering while being embedded within the Marketplace Payments leadership team. This matrix model allows you to maintain a high-level view of the entire payments puzzle, preventing "architectural drift" and ensuring that our technical choices across the BU reinforce one another. You will be an experienced, proactive, and pragmatic leader who is eager to prove themselves and change our platform for the better.

In this role, you'll have the chance to work with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Go, MySQL (Vitess), Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Temporal and more. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated leader passionate about pushing technical boundaries in a collaborative and high-stakes environment.

In this position, you’ll 

• Work closely with BU and domain leadership, drive co-creation of the domain's engineering strategy and technical roadmap, and ensure that our technology strategy aligns with the product vision.
• Evolve payments architecture for high-volume transaction handling by enabling teams to design self-healing, regularly (auto) tested services.
• Help teams reduce technical debt to increase reliability and scalability, ensuring a modularized architecture and the adoption of modern tools like Go and Temporal.
• Ensure the architecture supports rapid experimentation and the seamless rollout of new payments features
• Partner with shared BU teams (Infosec, Platform, and Tech Support) and Vinted Pay domain to build compatible infrastructure and maintain a "secure by design" posture.
• Work closely with engineers to set the best practices and understand the biggest pain-points; help solve them.
• Collaborate with other domains on overarching deliverables and shared technical responsibilities.
• Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.

About you 

• You have a proven track record as a technical engineering leader (Staff/Principal equivalent), having successfully defined, led, and delivered major, company-wide technical initiatives.
• You are a flexible leader who can fluidly balance your impact across the four archetypes of Staff Engineering, applying the right approach based on a pragmatic assessment of the domain’s needs together with the Director of Engineering.
• You can effectively communicate complex technical goals to both internal and external audiences in spoken and written English.
• You can drive a clear architectural vision by collaborating and iterating on software design, specifically for high-scale, distributed systems.
• You are willing to take on new challenges and constantly grow as an engineer and leader.
• You have experience with high-scale systems and are willing to work with our current technical stack - Ruby on Rails, Go, MySQL, Temporal and more. While we don't expect you to know all of them beforehand, you are eager to grow and adapt and learn.
• It’s a benefit if you have experience building and maintaining systems at a massive scale (e.g., handling 2+ million requests per minute), with deep knowledge of observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus) and a passion for introducing new practices.
• You have good experience of async systems and eventual consistency at the same time being a pragmatist rather than purist

Work perks 

• This position is eligible for Limited-time Relocation Package which includes €30.000 bonus + 2 months of temporary housing covered by Vinted (check our website for more info)
• 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
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• 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 

Limited-time Relocation Package

Your location shouldn’t be a stopper! In addition to our standard package, for this position we’ve increased the bonus to €30,000 gross. If you think Vinted is the ideal cultural fit for you, we invite you to apply! For further information, please refer to our Relocation page.

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 salary range for this position is € 8,008 - € 10,833 gross per month.