Backend engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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