Staff Engineer, Supply

Information about the position

Join our dynamic team within the Supply domain and become a pivotal technical leader, shaping our strategic direction and driving innovative solutions. Your role will involve tackling diverse challenges, fostering effective communication across the organisation, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our solutions.

As a key member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with talented individuals. Reporting to the Engineering Director, you'll not only lead technically but also contribute to the domain's overall engineering success.

In this role, you'll have the chance to work with technologies such as Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. This is an exciting opportunity for those passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and making a real difference in a collaborative and innovative environment. Join us and be part of our journey towards excellence!

In this position, you’ll

• Work closely with domain leadership, drive co-creation of the domain's engineering strategy, and ensure that our technology strategy aligns with the product vision.
• Work closely with engineers, improve and own the Supply domain part of Vinted Marketplace.
• Collaborate with leadership to set the best practices for software engineering.
• Be a voice of the engineering team and a technical leader when it comes to initiating and supporting projects across the domain and the whole organisation.
• Create and maintain a technical roadmap for the domain, and ensure teams within the domain are involved in executing it.
• 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 can effectively communicate complex technical goals to both internal and external audiences.
• You can drive a clear architectural vision by collaborating and iterating on software design.
• You are excellent at communicating in spoken and written English.
• You are willing to take on new challenges and constantly grow as an engineer and leader.
• You have experience with high-scale, distributed systems and are willing to work with Go, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and more. We don't expect you to be familiar with any of them beforehand.
• 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, Datadog) and a passion for introducing new practices.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

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!