Senior Backend Engineer, Service Standards

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

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days paid annual leave

Newest MacBook models

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for你

Team-building events

Home office budget €540 for home setup

Lunch benefit per working day

Personal shopping budget on Vinted

Pension plan

NS Business Card for commute

Bike leasing

Benefits platform budget

Work from Home allowance

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Vinted is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in the Service Standards team to shape how services are built, deployed, and operated at scale. You will contribute to a core service framework, providing golden paths, standardized contracts, and tooling that support multiple engineering teams across the platform.

You will collaborate with platform, observability, and product engineering teams to embed best practices, ensure reliability, and boost developer velocity as Vinted continues to grow.

Qualifications

• Proven backend design and scalable services.
• Strong experience in API contracts and service patterns.
• Focus on performance optimization and reliability.
• Dedication to improving developer experience and tooling.

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 new services.
• Implement robust consumer API contracts, startup patterns, and performance tooling into frameworks.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to drive adoption of updates and improve developer experience.
• Work with Observability and Infra teams to integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience into templates.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance guidelines are embedded into contracts and templates.
• Participate in design reviews, RFCs, and code reviews to uphold engineering standards.
• Write documentation and guidelines to empower engineers to adopt golden paths.

Skills

Backend engineering

System design

API contracts

Performance optimization

Developer experience

Tooling

Job description

Brief info about Vinted

Our mission is to make second‑hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre‑loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second‑hand fashion and a go‑to destination for all kinds of pre‑loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick‑up and drop‑off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high‑value pieces.
Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.

Information about the position

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Service Standards team, you will help shape how services are built, deployed, and operated across Vinted. You will be a key contributor to the development of our standards and a core service framework—providing engineering teams with golden paths, robust service contracts, standardized tooling, and performance benchmarks to ensure high reliability and developer velocity at scale.

You will be part of the Service Standards team in a Service Ecosystem domain, Platform Unit, reporting to the Engineering Manager of that team.

The Service Standards team is responsible for standardizing service startup, consumer APIs, and foundational backend frameworks across Vinted's engineering landscape. In this role, you will focus on deep technical execution, building reusable frameworks, and helping establish backend best practices and golden paths for product developers across Vinted.

You will collaborate closely with platform, observability, and product engineering teams to ensure our service framework and standards seamlessly integrate into daily workflows. Your work will directly impact developer experience, platform reliability, and system performance as Vinted continues to scale.

In this position, you’ll

• Contribute to the technical design and development of company‑wide service standards and golden paths.
• Build and maintain reusable backend libraries, tools, and scaffolding to streamline new service creation and maintenance.
• Implement robust consumer API contracts, standardized startup patterns, and performance tooling into foundational frameworks.
• Partner with backend engineers across domains to drive adoption of framework updates, collect feedback, and improve developer experience.
• Collaborate with Observability and Infrastructure teams to integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience practices directly into standard service templates.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance guidelines are embedded directly into service contracts and framework templates.
• Participate in technical design reviews, RFCs, and code reviews, fostering high engineering standards within the team.
• Help write clear documentation and guidelines to empower engineers across Vinted to adopt golden paths effortlessly.

About you

• Strong backend engineering experience with solid system design skills and hands‑on experience building scalable services.
• Practical expertise in designing API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
• Passionate about developer experience, tooling, and enabling other engineers through well‑designed software.
• Ability to evaluate pragmatic technical trade‑offs between code maintainability, delivery speed, and technical debt.
• Communicates technical concepts clearly and collaborates constructively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Enjoys sharing knowledge, participating in design discussions, and driving continuous technical improvements.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team‑building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• A dog‑friendly office

Working at Vinted

Workation policy

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non‑EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2‑year period to support your personal and professional development.

Hybrid work

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!

The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: €76.800—€104.000 EUR