Europe Arbeitnow ·
full-timeLead Backend Engineer, Incident Management
Vinteden · Amsterdam
Vinted is a European marketplace that enables members to buy and sell pre‑owned clothing and lifestyle items across more than 20 markets. The role focuses on VITA, Vinted’s internal platform that handles alerts, on‑call routing, incident coordination and service‑level objectives. As the lead backend engineer you will own the technical vision for VITA, shaping its roadmap, designing high‑scale distributed components and integrating AI‑driven incident assistance. Day‑to‑day work includes researching solutions, defining alert standards, reducing alert fatigue, building event pipelines for AI suggestions, establishing SLO frameworks, and ensuring the reliability of alert routing. You will also mentor a small engineering team, conduct system design reviews and collaborate with directors and other engineering groups to deliver improvements. The position suits an experienced engineer with a proven track record of architecting, building and operating large‑scale backend services, comfortable with Go or comparable languages such as Java, Rust, Python or C++, and capable of leading technical direction and fostering engineering discipline.
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. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission: Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life. Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces. Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Information about the position When an incident happens in production at Vinted, how quickly our engineering teams recover directly affects millions of members across Europe and the US. In this role, you will be the lead technical architect for VITA, our in house platform for alerts, on call routing, incident management, and SLOs. Every single production alert at Vinted flows through VITA, and every incident is coordinated through it in Slack, from declaration to postmortem. You will join a focused engineering team within our Service Ecosystem domain. The previous lead engineer recently stepped up to become the team Engineering Manager, which means we now need an experienced technical partner to take over the architectural vision. Because our team operates without a dedicated product manager, you will enjoy true product ownership. You will spend roughly half your time on technical discovery, researching solutions, and shaping our roadmap directly with engineering stakeholders and directors across Vinted. In this position, you’ll Lead the team's technical direction: scope complex problems, design solutions and coordinate delivery across teams. Own incident management and on-call processes, and lead improvements to both the processes and the tooling. Eliminate alert fatigue across Vinted, collaborating with engineering teams to group noisy alerts, establish alert standards, and make every page actionable. Advance practical AI in production, designing the event pipelines that allow our AI incident agent to accurately suggest root causes during live outages in minutes. Define standards for SLOs and alerts across Vinted, and simplify the tools teams use to create them. Define and track the product and process metrics that show whether our work makes a difference. Keep alert routing and our other critical systems reliable and simple to operate, so the team can move faster. Act as a technical mentor and multiplier for a growing team of five engineers, elevating their engineering discipline through thoughtful system design reviews and collaborative RFCs. About you Proven experience architecting, building, and operating high scale distributed systems in production. Our platform is built in Go, but we warmly welcome strong backgrounds in Java, Rust, Python, C++, or similar technologies. Have experience owning distributed systems in
| Role | Lead Backend Engineer, Incident Management |
|---|---|
| Company | Vinteden |
| Location | Amsterdam |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
Typical process for this type of role
A general guide — the exact steps for this specific listing may vary; check the original posting for details.
- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
Before you apply
0/4More at Vinteden
Other jobs at Vinteden
- Senior Data Scientist, Trust & Safety · Amsterdam
- Senior Outsourced Sales Manager: Vinted Go Acquisition · Europe
- Android Engineer, Frontend Technologies · Amsterdam
- Director Of Engineering, Frontend Technologies, Marketplace Technologies · Amsterdam
- Senior Backend Engineer, Vgo Carrier Technology · Amsterdam
Explore Related Placements
// similar opportunities
You might also like
Senior Backend Engineer (go)
Creativefabrica
About Creative Fabrica Creative Fabrica is a fast-growing AI platform that makes it easy for everyday consumers to create whatever they imagine, from images and...
Lead Engineer - Wealth Management Apps
Bjak
About BJAK The original mission of BJAK is we believe people deserve smarter ways to plan, save and grow their money. This is the origin of our name. Started in...
Senior Manager – Data Engineering & Machine Learning
Catawiki
At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car , a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton , Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bol...
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform (toqan)
Prosus
Who We Are You've ordered dinner through Just Eat Takeaway. You've bought and sold on OLX. You've paid with PayU. Chances are, you've already used a Prosus comp...
Engineering Manager, Billing & Monetization
Datasnipper
About the role Every customer's path through DataSnipper, from first sign-up to first agent run to renewal, runs on systems your team owns. We are hiring an Eng...
Machine Learning Engineer - Llms
Prosus
Who We Are You've ordered dinner through Just Eat Takeaway. You've bought and sold on OLX. You've paid with PayU. Chances are, you've already used a Prosus comp...