Senior Platform Engineer: APIs, Services & Automation

Mbianchi; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 195,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mbianchi in Amsterdam is seeking a senior software engineer who can own outcomes across APIs, services, CLIs, and interfaces, balancing architecture with hands-on delivery. You will work with Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, and React to shape scalable systems.

You will lead architecture decisions, improve quality with tests and observability, and collaborate with users and product teams to ship value. The role emphasizes impact and low bureaucracy while tackling complex platform work.

Qualifications

• At least 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing APIs and distributed systems that are observable, secure, and operable under real load.
• Comfort moving between backend, infrastructure, automation, and enough frontend work to finish the product.
• Good judgement about build versus buy, abstraction boundaries, migrations, and technical debt.
• Strong communication to explain trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable APIs, services, event-driven workflows, CLIs, and product interfaces.
• Lead architecture decisions across performance, security, data, operability, and long-term maintainability.
• Raise engineering quality through tests, reviews, observability, documentation, and deliberate simplification.
• Work directly with users, product, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous needs into shipped software.
• Mentor engineers, unblock complex delivery, and improve standards across multiple teams or domains.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

React

Job description

Mbianchi in Amsterdam is seeking a senior software engineer who can own outcomes across APIs, services, CLIs, and interfaces, balancing architecture with hands-on delivery. You will work with Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, and React to shape scalable systems.

You will lead architecture decisions, improve quality with tests and observability, and collaborate with users and product teams to ship value. The role emphasizes impact and low bureaucracy while tackling complex platform work.