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Junior Backend Engineer - Vinted Academy

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Junior Backend Engineer - Vinted Academy in Others new

  • Kaunas, Lithuania

Responsibilities

  • Complete the two-month technical induction and participate in workshops, mentoring, and product-team collaboration.
  • Work with Vinted’s Ruby on Rails codebase, MySQL through Vitess, and Redis.
  • Help extract small, manageable components from a monolithic application.
  • Use Grafana, Kiban, and Datadog to monitor code.
  • Implement product changes and improve user experience, often through experimentation.
  • Collaborate with engineers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews.
  • Participate in ongoing learning and apply Agile and Scrum principles.

Requirements

  • Some experience with object-oriented languages such as Ruby, Java, PHP, or similar.
  • Some understanding of backend frameworks such as Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Laravel is preferred.
  • Exposure to MySQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch is advantageous.
  • Some coding skills, a passion for engineering, and willingness to learn.
  • Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • A GitHub account.

Benefits

  • Six-month contract with the opportunity to join Vinted permanently after completing the Academy.
  • The Spring Academy begins March 1, 2027, and requires full-time availability; a 0.8 contract option is possible for university students.
  • Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week and remote workation of up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 global days.
  • Share options programme, 25 working days of holiday, private health insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
  • Team-building events, a monthly Vinted shopping budget, and a dog-friendly office.
  • Vilnius office gym and in-house meals; Kaunas monthly lunch allowance plus weekly in-house lunch and breakfast.

Vinted

Vinted runs a consumer-to-consumer marketplace and app for buying and selling second-hand fashion and related items across Europe. It monetizes through transaction-related fees, buyer protection, and shipping services, and also operates Vinted Go for logistics and Vinted Pay for payments. Founded...

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