Senior Backend Engineer II, Resilience

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>Brief info about Vinted&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><span data-sheets-root="1">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. <br>The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:<br><br><strong><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/marketplace" target="_blank">Vinted Marketplace</a></strong> 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.<br><br><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/vintedgo" target="_blank"><strong>Vinted Go</strong></a> 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.<br><br><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/vintedpay" target="_blank"><strong>Vinted Pay</strong></a> 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.<br><br>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.&nbsp;</span></p></div><h2><strong>Information about the position&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p>As Vinted’s new <strong>Senior Backend Engineer II</strong>, you’ll be joining the <strong>Platform Resilience team</strong> (Service Ecosystem domain). The purpose of our team is ensuring stable and resilient growth of the Vinted Marketplace services ecosystem. The team consists exclusively of experienced backend engineers, ensuring you always have someone to discuss your ideas with.</p> <p>Here are some of the technologies we use: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Golang, MySQL, Vitess, Redis, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elastic APM, Datadog, Backstage, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Unix/Linux, Istio, ArgoCD.</p> <p>Take a look at<a href="https://web.archive.org./web/20250829224200/https://vinted.engineering/"> https://vinted.engineering/</a> to get a sense of our challenges.</p> <h2><strong>In this position, you’ll&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Develop platform capabilities that help all Marketplace engineers build scalable systems.</li> <li>Investigate and improve overall system stability and performance.</li> <li>Consult other engineers on how to build robust systems with high availability.</li> <li>Craft code that affects more than 80M+ users and handles 10M+ requests per minute.</li> <li>Participate in on-call rotation every 5-6 weeks.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About you&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience building and supporting large-scale applications.</li> <li>Good understanding of how infrastructure and code work together.</li> <li>A strong communicator, skilled in discussing complex topics and collaborating across cultures in spoken and written English.</li> <li>Analytical and acute problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Eager to learn and master new technologies and concepts.</li> <li>Familiar with most and have deep knowledge in some of the following disciplines (depending on your seniority level): Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms.</li> <li>You are motivated by challenging, complex engineering problems requiring deep technological understanding, perseverance, collaboration with other developers, and s

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