Senior Backend Engineer - Go Carrier (Hybrid, Learning Budget)

Vinted; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days of paid annual leave

Newest MacBook models

Confidential Employee Assistance Plan

Frequent team‑building events

Home office support: we provide IT… up

Lunch benefit per working day

Company bike leasing scheme

Monthly budget for a flexible benefits

Work from Home allowance

A personal monthly budget for shopping

Collective Defined Contribution Penson

NS Business Card for your commute

A dog‑friendly office

Job summary

Vinted is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Vinted Go Carrier domain to build backend systems that move parcels through Vinted Go's logistics network. You will join Pacman, owning mid-mile logistics and warehouse operations automation, and lead efforts to improve routing, labeling, and dispatch.

You will mentor teammates, design scalable services, and collaborate with Product, Operations, and other engineering teams to align on contracts, RFCs, and robust APIs while advancing reliability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of building systems and owning work from design through production.
• Solid experience with Ruby, or the ability and motivation to learn Vinted's backend stack quickly.
• Good understanding of API design, database-backed systems, observability, and operating services in production.
• Works independently on problems of diverse scope, and is someone teammates turn to for advice on difficult technical matters.
• Pragmatic problem solver who balances delivery speed, reliability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Genuinely enjoys sharing knowledge and mentoring others, and sees raising the team's engineering standards as part of the job.
• Gives direct, useful feedback, seeks it in return, and builds alignment across teams.
• Collaborative and clear communicator who works well with engineers, product managers, operations, and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Advantage: experience with logistics, warehouse management, fulfillment, or operational workflows; integrating software with physical devices; or modularizing a large monolith.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power mid-mile transport and warehouse operations.
• Own technical initiatives end to end, from problem framing and system design through delivery, monitoring, and iteration, and lead projects that span the team or the wider domain.
• Make architecture and trade‑off decisions with a 6–12 month horizon, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and tech debt.
• Help evolve our core service, a large Ruby on Rails modular monolith, towards clearer module boundaries and well‑defined APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, Decision Science, and neighboring engineering teams to shape discovery, sequencing, and implementation, and align on contracts and dependencies through RFCs and technical discussions.
• Actively share knowledge: give thoughtful code reviews, pair on hard problems, talk the team through complex changes, and keep documentation useful.
• Help onboard new team members, mentor engineers informally, and trust others with meaningful work while supporting them to succeed.
• Work with a backend stack that includes Ruby, Vitess, Kafka, Jenkins, Elastic, and observability tools; you do not need to know all of it upfront.
• Take ownership of service reliability, alerts, metrics, SLOs, and incident follow‑up, including participation in on‑call rotations.
• Take part in hiring by interviewing candidates and helping raise the bar.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve your development workflow and help the team move faster.

Skills

Ruby

API design

Observability

Production services

English fluency

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Vitess

Kafka

Jenkins

Elastic

Job description

Vinted is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Vinted Go Carrier domain to build backend systems that move parcels through Vinted Go's logistics network. You will join Pacman, owning mid-mile logistics and warehouse operations automation, and lead efforts to improve routing, labeling, and dispatch.

You will mentor teammates, design scalable services, and collaborate with Product, Operations, and other engineering teams to align on contracts, RFCs, and robust APIs while advancing reliability