Backend Engineer (Platform Engineering)
Amston – a team of talent recruitment professionals that ensures exclusive attention to your needs, fosters partnerships based on trust and provides expert insights throughout the recruitment process.
Our client – Vinted is a leading second-hand clothing online marketplace that is currently on a mission to make second-hand the first choice.
Job Description
- Create and improve tools that help engineers build and operate better systems
- Own key platform features used by all marketplace product teams
- Monitor the performance of our production systems and look for any problems or bottlenecks
- Collaborate with the Product Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering teams to find the best way to scale applications and infrastructure
- Consult other engineers on how to build systems that operate well in production
- Collaborate with other developers through GitHub pull requests and code reviews
- See your code affect more than 45 million users almost instantly – we practice trunk-based development and deploy many times every day
- Work with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Vitess, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins and many more technologies (we don't expect you to be familiar with all of them beforehand)
- Craft code that can handle more than five million requests per minute
- Monitor your code in production through Kibana, Grafana, Datadog
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on work experience in development or operations at scale
- A good communicator who can talk in detail about complicated topics
- Willing to learn and master new technologies and concepts
- Familiar with most and have deep knowledge in some of the following disciplines (depending on your seniority level): Software Engineering, Data Structures, Algorithms, Web Development, Systems Programming, Distributed Systems, Systems Architecture, Computer Science
- Advantage: Experience with performance optimisation, performance monitoring, load- and stress-testing tools (e.g. NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, JMeter)
Company Offers
- Opportunity to join share options programme
- Learning budget (13.2 % from net yearly salary)
- 25 working days of holiday
- Remote workout classes
- Mental and emotional health support from Mindletic
- Monthly team-building events
- A personal budget for shopping on Vinted
- Private health insurance
- Work anywhere in the EU for 90 days out of the year
- Dog-friendly office
- Home office support (IT workstation equipment provided + a personal budget of up to 540 € for home workplace furniture)
Additional information
Contact person – Goda, +3706372429, goda@amston.lt