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.
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.
Information About The Position As a Lead Backend Engineer in the Service Standards team, you will shape how services are built, deployed, and operated across all of Vinted. You will work closely with a team on the development of our 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 sit in the Service Standards team, part of the Service Ecosystem domain, 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. Within it, this is a senior individual-contributor role combining technical leadership with high autonomy—you will define architectural directions, establish best practices, and guide engineers across domains without requiring full management overhead.
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
Lead the technical direction and design around service standards and golden paths.
Define and evolve company-wide service standards, including consumer APIs, service contracts, startup routines, and performance guidelines.
Build reusable backend libraries, tools, and scaffolding to streamline new service creation and maintenance.
Partner with backend engineers across domains to drive adoption of framework updates and gather continuous feedback.
Evaluate pragmatic trade-offs between architectural consistency, delivery speed, and technical debt across the platform.
Collaborate with Observability and Infrastructure teams to integrate telemetry, SLOs, and resilience practices into standard service templates.
Ensure security, privacy, and compliance guidelines are embedded directly into service contracts and framework templates.
Mentor senior backend engineers, participate in architectural design reviews, and foster high engineering standards across teams.
Drive architectural proposals (RFCs/ADRs) for platform-wide backend standardization.
About You
Have deep backend engineering experience and strong architectural intuition, with proven success building scalable services and frameworks.
Demonstrate a track record of driving cross-team technical alignment and leading complex initiatives across multiple engineering groups.
Possess expert knowledge in designing API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
Understand trade-offs in platform design and know how to build golden paths that engineers love to use.
Communicate technical vision and architectural choices clearly to both technical leads and engineering leadership.
Enjoy mentoring engineers, conducting design reviews, and sharing best practices to level up the backend engineering community.
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:
€93.500—€126.500 EUR
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Lead Backend Engineer, Service Standards werkgever: Vinted
Vinted is een uitstekende werkgever die zich inzet voor duurzaamheid en de circulaire economie. Met een sterke focus op persoonlijke ontwikkeling, biedt Vinted een leerbudget van €3.000 per jaar en tot 10 werkdagen voor professionele groei. Werken in Utrecht of Amsterdam betekent deel uitmaken van een dynamisch team dat samenwerkt om klanten te helpen bij het geven van een tweede leven aan hun kleding, met aantrekkelijke voordelen zoals een pensioenplan, flexibele voordelen en teamuitjes.
