Vinted

Search Engineer, Buyer

Kaunas, Lithuania Full Time

Brief info about Vinted 

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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.

Information about the position 

We are currently looking for a Search Engineer to join one of our cross-functional agile teams within the Buyer domain. The Search Platform subdomain is a platform team providing services for stream aligned teams within the Search domain. The Search Platform team currently provides 2 services to the company. We provide a Vespa search engine infrastructure suite that powers items search, search suggestions, recommendations, help center and internal search systems. The second service is Search Indexing Pipeline built on top of Apache Flink is able to process vast streams of data. In this role you will be working on these 2 services where you will help us to keep up with the Vinted growth as well enable product teams to build new features.

As our new Search Engineer you’ll also be responsible for growing our backend platform to handle an accelerating platform scale. Your main aim will be preparing our product for the challenges that lie ahead and making sure it contributes to the Vinted vision of making second-hand the first choice.

Also, by joining Vinted you’ll become part of an active community of engineers who are keen on sharing knowledge, organizing learning workshops and so much more!

In this position, you’ll 

  • Work in a team and shape the features to make our members’ life better.
  • Apply Agile and Lean principles in your work.
  • Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
  • Improve and write new services.
  • Work with Java, Scala, Golang and write streaming applications on top of Apache Flink.
  • See your code affect 65+ million users almost instantly. Our master branch gets rolled out straight to production on each merge. We deploy many times per day.
  • Scale Vespa search engine, Data streams and many other technologies. We don't expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand.
  • Write code that can handle more than 2 million requests per minute. Monitor your deployed code using Kibana, Grafana, and Datadog, along with any new tools that you introduce.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to ensure our systems stability.

About you 

  • Willingness to learn and master new technologies and concepts.
  • We expect you to be familiar with most, and have deep knowledge in at least a few of the following disciplines: Search systems, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Scaling, Systems Performance Tuning, Computer Science.
  • Prior experience with: Search systems, Elasticsearch, search relevance optimization, Solr, Lucene, Vespa search engine, Kafka, Apache Flink or streaming applications in general would be an advantage.
  • Proficient programming skills are required as we need to engineer and maintain our tools daily.
  • We value pragmatism, big picture thinking, curiosity and problem solving skills.

Work perks 

  • The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
  • 25 working days of holiday
  • Newest MacBook models
  • Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
  • Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
  • Never ending snacks and monthly lunch benefit
  • Private health insurance
  • 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

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 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 €6,542 - €8,842 gross per month.