Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer II, Engineering Experience

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5 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and own backend tools, services, platforms, and frameworks for engineering productivity.
  • Explore and adopt AI-assisted approaches that improve software delivery efficiency and quality.
  • Improve development environments, pipelines, pull-request workflows, and coding-agent support across Vinted.
  • Build context, conventions, scaffolding, guardrails, and evaluation practices that improve AI-generated code.
  • Research solutions, implement them end-to-end, and drive adoption across the engineering organization.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and promote best practices across teams.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience designing, building, and operating backend systems, platforms, or developer tools used at scale.
  • Proven experience shipping tools, platforms, or services relied upon by other engineers.
  • Strong ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
  • Extensive practical understanding of AI-assisted and LLM-based development tools, including their limitations and risks.
  • Strong thought leadership, technical influence, mentoring ability, and experience driving adoption across teams.
  • Passion for engineering experience and developer productivity.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Hands-on experience with Go, Kubernetes, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or platform-like teams is a plus.

Benefits

  • Share options programme.
  • 25 days of paid annual leave.
  • Newest MacBook models.
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Program for the employee and family.
  • Frequent team-building events.
  • Home-office IT equipment and a personal furniture budget of up to €540.
  • Lunch benefit per working day and a personal monthly Vinted shopping budget.
  • Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan.
  • NS Business Card, company bike leasing scheme, flexible benefits budget, and Work from Home allowance.
  • Dog-friendly office.
  • Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
  • Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 global days, with different terms for non-EU citizens.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
  • The annual gross salary range excludes 8% holiday pay and is €85.900–€116.200 EUR.

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About Vinted

1,001-5,000 employees

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 in 2008 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the platform serves members in 20+ European markets.

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