Senior Backend Engineer II, Resilience (Ruby/Go)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; hybrid model with 2 recommended office days per week. Remote work is available for up to 90 days per year in the EU, with limited global workation days.

Annual gross salary: €93,500–€126,500, excluding 8% holiday pay.

Company

hirify.global is a second-hand marketplace founded in Lithuania, with Marketplace, shipping, and payments business units serving more than 20 European markets.

What you will do

• Develop platform capabilities that enable Marketplace engineers to build scalable systems.
• Investigate and improve system stability, performance, and availability.
• Advise engineers on designing robust and resilient systems.
• Write code serving more than 80 million users and handling over 10 million requests per minute.
• Participate in an on-call rotation every 5–6 weeks.

Requirements

• Experience building and supporting large-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure and code work together.
• Strong spoken and written English communication skills, including collaboration across cultures and discussion of complex topics.
• Analytical and advanced problem-solving skills.
• Motivation to learn and master new technologies and concepts.
• Familiarity with most and deep knowledge in some areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures, and Algorithms, depending on seniority.
• Motivation to solve complex engineering problems requiring deep technical understanding, perseverance, collaboration, and solutions beyond regular product development.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, performance optimization, and monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexibility to choose when to work from home and when to meet in person.
• 25 days of paid annual leave, work-from-home allowance, home-office equipment support, and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
• Annual learning budget starting at €3,000, plus up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
• Share options, pension plan, lunch benefit, flexible benefits budget, shopping budget, commute support, and bike leasing.
• Employee Assistance Program, team-building events, dog-friendly office, and family support.