Vinted

Senior Backend Engineer, Service Standards

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16 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and development of company-wide service standards and golden paths.
  • Build and maintain reusable backend libraries, tools, and scaffolding for service creation and maintenance.
  • Implement API contracts, standardized startup patterns, and performance tooling in foundational frameworks.
  • Partner with backend engineers to drive framework adoption, gather feedback, and improve developer experience.
  • Integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience practices into standard service templates with Observability and Infrastructure teams.
  • Embed security, privacy, and compliance guidelines into service contracts and framework templates.
  • Participate in technical design reviews, RFCs, code reviews, documentation, and engineering knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience and solid system design skills building scalable services.
  • Hands-on expertise designing API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
  • Experience or interest in developer experience, tooling, and enabling engineers through well-designed software.
  • Ability to evaluate trade-offs among maintainability, delivery speed, and technical debt.
  • Clear technical communication and constructive collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Benefits

  • Share options programme.
  • 25 days of paid annual leave.
  • Newest MacBook models.
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
  • Frequent team-building events.
  • Home office IT equipment and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
  • 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.
  • Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 global days, with different limits for non-EU citizens.
  • Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
  • Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.

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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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