1 day ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and design of service standards and golden paths.
- Define company-wide standards for consumer APIs, service contracts, startup routines, and performance.
- Build reusable backend libraries, tools, and scaffolding for service creation and maintenance.
- Drive framework adoption and gather feedback from backend engineers across domains.
- Evaluate architectural consistency, delivery speed, and technical debt trade-offs.
- Integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience practices with Observability and Infrastructure teams.
- Embed security, privacy, and compliance guidelines into service contracts and framework templates.
- Mentor senior backend engineers, conduct architectural design reviews, and promote engineering standards.
- Drive RFCs and ADRs for platform-wide backend standardization.
Requirements
- Deep backend engineering experience and strong architectural judgment building scalable services and frameworks.
- A proven record of leading complex initiatives and driving technical alignment across multiple engineering groups.
- Expertise in API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
- Understanding of platform design trade-offs and experience creating effective golden paths.
- Ability to communicate technical vision and architectural decisions to technical and engineering leadership.
- Interest in mentoring engineers, conducting design reviews, and sharing backend best practices.
Benefits
- Share options programme, 25 days of paid annual leave, lunch benefit, pension plan, flexible benefits budget, and a monthly Vinted shopping budget.
- Newest MacBook models, IT workstation equipment, up to €540 for home workplace furniture, and a work-from-home allowance.
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program for the employee and family, team-building events, dog-friendly office, bike leasing, and NS Business Card for public transport.
- Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days annually in the EU, including up to 21 global days; non-EU citizens may work up to 21 days worldwide.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
About 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 in 2008 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the platform serves members in 20+ European markets.