Senior Backend Engineer II - Platform Resilience & Scale

Vinteden; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options programme

25 days of paid annual leave

Newest MacBook models

Confidential Employee Assistance Plan

Frequent team‑building events

Home office budget up to €540

Lunch benefit

Personal shopping budget

Pension plan

NS Business Card for public transport

Company bike leasing

Monthly flexible benefits budget

Work from Home allowance

Dog‑friendly office

Job summary

Vinted is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to join the Platform Resilience team. You’ll help ensure stable and scalable growth of the Marketplace services ecosystem, collaborating with senior engineers across a broad tech stack.

You’ll work with Ruby, Golang, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools to improve performance, reliability, and incident response for a platform used by millions of users across Europe.

Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting large‑scale applications.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure and code interact.
• Excellent communication skills in English, across cultures.
• Analytical thinker with problem‑solving abilities.
• Curious learner eager to master new tech and concepts.
• Solid grounding in Computer Science/Software Engineering.
• Nice to have distributed systems knowledge and event‑driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform capabilities for scalable Marketplace services.
• Improve system stability and performance through analysis.
• Advise engineers on building robust, highly available systems.
• Write code impacting millions of users and high requests per minute.
• Participate in on‑call rotation every 5–6 weeks.

Skills

Large-scale applications

Infrastructure knowledge

Communication skills

Analytical problem solving

Learning mindset

Computer Science background

Distributed systems experience

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

Vinted is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to join the Platform Resilience team. You’ll help ensure stable and scalable growth of the Marketplace services ecosystem, collaborating with senior engineers across a broad tech stack.

You’ll work with Ruby, Golang, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools to improve performance, reliability, and incident response for a platform used by millions of users across Europe.