Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 20+ markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

You’ll become part of the Trust & Safety domain's Detection team, with a mission to protect the Vinted community from harmful activities and content. The Detection team in the Trust & Safety domain is engaged in detecting, understanding, and stopping dangerous or inappropriate content and behaviour within the Vinted Marketplace.

You will leverage your expertise in machine learning to research, design, implement, and maintain our detection models. You will play a critical role in ensuring that our models are not only accurate but also efficient and scalable. This involves working closely with our engineering teams to develop robust pipelines for data handling, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and continuous improvement.

As a Data Scientist, you will utilise machine learning techniques to analyse text, images, and other data formats, identifying and addressing content that may pose potential risks. Additionally, you will improve the pipelines of our current models and by establishing best practices and methodologies, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the domain's effectiveness and safeguarding Vinted.

In this position, you’ll

Research, design, implement, and maintain diverse machine learning models for the detection of harmful content and behavior within the Vinted Marketplace.
Play a vital role in shaping foundational machine learning practices, including data versioning, establishing labeling pipelines, and ensuring the availability of high-quality data for effective model training.
Collaborate closely with the Data Infrastructure team to develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure essential for the efficient training, deployment, monitoring, and continuous enhancement of machine learning models.
Partner with backend engineers to ensure that deployed models achieve optimal performance and scalability, meeting the demands of our growing platform.
Collaborate with the Data Infrastructure team to build and maintain data pipelines, tools, and infrastructure necessary for efficient model training, monitoring, deployment, and iterative improvement.
Work together with Decision Scientists to test and assess new models.

About you

Proven track record in data science, with a strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, or computational mathematics.
Familiarity in working with gradient boosting, natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning models, including experience with the latest tools and methodologies.
Understanding of model deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and scalability challenges for real-time ML models running in production.
Capability in working alongside engineering teams to design and implement efficient data ingestion, feature engineering, and model training pipelines.
Excellent problem-solving abilities and a commitment to staying informed about the latest trends and advancements in machine learning and data science.
Preferred: Experience with text analytics and processing, particularly in building models for content classification, sentiment analysis, or entity recognition.

Work perks

The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
25 days of paid annual leave
Newest MacBook models
Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
Frequent team-building events
Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
A daily lunch allowance
ClassPass (Gym Membership subsidy)
Pension plan with a total contribution of 12%, 8% by the Company and 4% by employee
A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
An NS mobility card
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 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.

The base salary range for this position is €50,200 - €68,000 gross per year.