Senior Backend Engineer II, Engineering Experience

Vinted is a second-hand fashion marketplace. The Engineering Experience domain builds tools and platforms for Vinted's engineering teams. This role involves designing and building developer tools, CI/CD systems, and AI-assisted development environments.

• Explore, adopt and enable AI-assisted approaches for your own delivery and to improve the efficiency and quality of others across Vinted's software development life cycle
• Design, build and own tools, services and frameworks that make development, delivery and quality fast and reliable, using technologies such as Go, Ruby and Kubernetes
• See your output used by hundreds of other engineers across Vinted
• Make Vinted's codebase work well with coding agents - the context, conventions and scaffolding that raise the quality of AI-generated code
• Build tooling and introduce processes to handle complex problems, such as growing pull request review load, AI assisted PR-merge pipelines, etc.
• Improve environments and pipelines so agents and engineers can validate changes in seconds instead of managing services on their own machines
• Own your solutions end-to-end, from idea and research to wide adoption

• Substantial experience designing, building, and operating backend systems, platforms, or developer tools used at scale
• Heavily use AI to boost your work, and you're keen to help other engineers do the same
• Proven experience designing and shipping tools, platforms or services that other engineers depend on
• Write clean, maintainable and testable code
• Know how to make a codebase work well with AI - the context, conventions, guardrails and evaluation that raise the quality and safety of AI-generated code
• Understand the practical limits and risks of LLM-based tools and design around them
• Exhibit strong thought leadership in your area and have opinions about how things should be done, you can influence technical direction, mentor others and drive adoption of best practices across teams
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Plus: hands-on experience with Go, Kubernetes, or building developer tooling and CI/CD systems
• Plus: experience working in platform-like teams

• 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
• 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 2 years
• Hybrid work with 2 recommended office days a week