Lead Backend Engineer - Order Fulfillment

Vinted Lead Backend Engineer, Order Fulfillment Added 5 days ago Seniority Level: Team lead Skills: Golang , 5 yrs. (required) Redis , 5 yrs. (required) Kafka , 5 yrs. (required) API , 3 yrs. Languages: English C1 - Advanced Experience: 5 yrs. minimum in Software Engineering Monthly Salary (gross): 6542 - 8842 € Contract Type: Full-time Location: Kaunas, Vilnius To apply for this job listing, you must log in Job Description Lead Backend Engineer, Order Fulfillment 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. Information About The Position We're hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to join the Order Fulfillment (internally known as Nasa) 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 fulfillment initiatives. You won’t just be building features; you will be shaping the logic that guides our 100+ million 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. Curious who you’ll be speaking with? You’ll meet the people behind this role early in the process: Mingailė Avulytė, who leads the Order Fulfillment engineering team and will be your direct manager. Birutė Kerzė, who will guide you through the hiring process. In this position, you’ll Lead Technical Design: Own the architectural evolution of our Order Fulfillment 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 Nasa 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 fulfillment 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 programme25 working days of holidayAccess to all the tools & tech needed for workHome office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniturePrivate health insuranceDigital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)Frequent team-building eventsA personal monthly budget for shopping on VintedThe opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workationA dog-friendly officeIn Vilnius office: gym & in-house meals at friendly pricesIn 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. Limited-time Relocation Package This position is based in Lithuania, and if you're not (yet) don't worry! We're here to help you settle in with premium relocation assistance and a generous €30,000 gross bonus. If you feel that Vinted is your perfect cultural fit—apply! For more info, refer to our Relocation page The Gross Monthly Salary Range For This Position Is: €6.542—€8.842 EUR 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. Information About The Position We're hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to join the Order Fulfillment (internally known as Nasa) 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 fulfillment initiatives. You won’t just be building features; you will be shaping the logic that guides our 100+ million 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. Curious who you’ll be speaking with? You’ll meet the people behind this role early in the process: Mingailė Avulytė, who leads the Order Fulfillment engineering team and will be your direct manager. Birutė Kerzė, who will guide you through the hiring process. In this position, you’ll Lead Technical Design: Own the architectural evolution of our Order Fulfillment 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 Nasa 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 fulfillment 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 programme25 working days of holidayAccess to all the tools & tech needed for workHome office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniturePrivate health insuranceDigital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)Frequent team-building eventsA personal monthly budget for shopping on VintedThe opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workationA dog-friendly officeIn Vilnius office: gym & in-house meals at friendly pricesIn 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. Limited-time Relocation Package This position is based in Lithuania, and if you're not (yet) don't worry! We're here to help you settle in with premium relocation assistance and a generous €30,000 gross bonus. If you feel that Vinted is your perfect cultural fit—apply! For more info, refer to our Relocation page The Gross Monthly Salary Range For This Position Is: €6.542—€8.842 EUR Founded in 2008 Employees 1745 Open positions 9 Avg. monthly salary 4882.13 € Connect On: About Vinted The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay, is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, where it all began back in 2008. In 2019, we became the country’s first Unicorn! We’re bold enough to rethink how things are done but humble enough to know there’s always more to learn. You’ll be part of Europe’s largest online marketplace for second-hand finds, backed by a clear purpose and a shared sense of pride. Our work is complex and fast-moving, as we expand into new markets and categories, giving you the chance to grow alongside some of the brightest minds in tech and business. Alongside the support of our growing community, we’re backed by leading venture capital firms: Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG. The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay, is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, where it all began back in 2008. In 2019, we became the country’s first Unicorn! We’re bold enough to rethink how things are done but humble enough to know there’s always more to learn. You’ll be part of Europe’s largest online marketplace for second-hand finds, backed by a clear purpose and a shared sense of pride. Our work is complex and fast-moving, as we expand into new markets and categories, giving you the chance to grow alongside some of the brightest minds in tech and business. Alongside the support of our growing community, we’re backed by leading venture capital firms: Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG. 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