Lead Backend Engineer, Service Standards

VintedAmsterdamHybridFull-time1 week ago

Vinted is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer for its Service Standards team to shape how services are built, deployed, and operated across the company. The role involves defining company-wide service standards, building reusable backend libraries and tools, and driving cross-team technical alignment. Requires deep backend engineering experience, strong architectural intuition, and a track record of leading complex initiatives.

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 you need

Must-have

Backend EngineeringAPI ContractsService Startup PatternsPerformance OptimizationArchitectural DesignScalable ServicesFrameworksTelemetry

Soft skills

Technical LeadershipCommunicationMentoringCross-team CollaborationAutonomyPragmatic Trade-offsFostering High Engineering Standards

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