Senior Backend Engineer, VGo Carrier Technology

Title: Senior Backend Engineer, VGo Carrier Technology Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Information about the position 

As Senior Backend Engineer in the Vinted Go Carrier domain, you will build backend systems that move parcels through Vinted Go's own logistics network, between hubs and through warehouses, quickly, reliably and at scale.

You'll join Vinted Go, the logistics arm of Vinted, focused on making shipping more affordable, convenient, and reliable. Your team, Pacman, owns mid-mile logistics and warehouse operations automation: how parcels are routed and transported between hubs, and how they are received, labelled, and dispatched.

We're looking for a strong engineer who also makes the engineers around them better: someone who leads the team's hardest technical problems and actively shares what they know, so the whole team grows with them.

In this position, you’ll 

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power mid-mile transport and warehouse operations.
• Own technical initiatives end to end, from problem framing and system design through delivery, monitoring, and iteration, and lead projects that span the team or the wider domain.
• Make architecture and trade-off decisions with a 6–12 month horizon, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and tech debt.
• Help evolve our core service, a large Ruby on Rails modular monolith, towards clearer module boundaries and well-defined APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, Decision Science, and neighboring engineering teams to shape discovery, sequencing, and implementation, and align on contracts and dependencies through RFCs and technical discussions.
• Actively share knowledge: give thoughtful code reviews, pair on hard problems, walk the team through complex changes, and keep documentation useful.
• Help onboard new team members, mentor engineers informally, and trust others with meaningful work while supporting them to succeed.
• Work with a backend stack that includes Ruby, Vitess, Kafka, Jenkins, Elastic, and observability tools; you do not need to know all of it upfront.
• Take ownership of service reliability, alerts, metrics, SLOs, and incident follow-up, including participation in on-call rotations.
• Take part in hiring by interviewing candidates and helping raise the bar.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve your development workflow and help the team move faster.

About you 

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of building systems and owning work from design through production.
• Solid experience with Ruby, or the ability and motivation to learn Vinted's backend stack quickly.
• Good understanding of API design, database-backed systems, observability, and operating services in production.
• Works independently on problems of diverse scope, and is someone teammates turn to for advice on difficult technical matters.
• Pragmatic problem solver who balances delivery speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and breaking complex product or operational problems into clear technical steps.
• Genuinely enjoys sharing knowledge and mentoring others, and sees raising the team's engineering standards as part of the job.
• Gives direct, useful feedback, seeks it in return, and builds alignment across teams.
• Collaborative and clear communicator who works well with engineers, product managers, operations, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Advantage: experience with logistics, warehouse management, fulfillment, or operational workflows; integrating software with physical devices; or modularizing a large monolith.

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• Pension plan with flexible contribution options and a matching contribution from Vinted
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• A dog-friendly office
• In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
• In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

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!