Lead Backend Engineer, Service Standards
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Job description
Lead Backend Engineer in the Service Standards team, responsible for shaping how services are built, deployed, and operated across all of Vinted through a core service framework, golden paths, and standards.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Netherlands
- Pay
- EUR 93,500 – 126,500 / year
What you'll do
- 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.
What we're looking for
- Deep backend engineering experience and strong architectural intuition, with proven success building scalable services and frameworks.
- Track record of driving cross-team technical alignment and leading complex initiatives across multiple engineering groups.
- 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.
Your team
Service Standards team, Service Ecosystem domain
Responsible for standardizing service startup, consumer APIs, and foundational backend frameworks across Vinted's engineering landscape.
Benefits
- 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: 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: up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally
- Individual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over a 2-year period
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About Vinted
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units: Vinted Marketplace, Europe's leading platform for second-hand fashion; Vinted Go, which enhances the shipping experience with over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points and more than 60 carriers across Europe; and Vinted Pay, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe.
Mission
Help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
Key facts
- over 2,000 people
- 2008
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Founded in 2008 in Lithuania
- Became Lithuania's first unicorn in 2019
- Headquarters remain in Vilnius
- Offices across Europe
- Vinted Marketplace connects millions of members across 20+ markets
- Vinted Go partners with more than 60 carriers across Europe