Senior Backend Engineer, Service Standards

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hybrid work with 2 recommended office days per week; remote work is allowed for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally.

Annual gross salary: €76,800–€104,000 EUR, excluding 8% holiday pay.

Company

hirify.global is a second-hand marketplace and technology group with hirify.global Marketplace, hirify.global Go, and hirify.global Pay, connecting millions of members across more than 20 markets.

What you will do

• Design and develop company-wide service standards, golden paths, and reusable backend frameworks.
• Build libraries, tools, and scaffolding that streamline service creation and maintenance.
• Implement consumer API contracts, standardized startup patterns, and performance tooling.
• Collaborate with backend, platform, observability, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to drive framework adoption.
• Integrate telemetry, SLOs, resilience practices, security, privacy, and compliance into service templates.
• Participate in technical design reviews, RFCs, code reviews, documentation, and engineering enablement.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience and solid system design skills, including hands-on experience building scalable services.
• Practical expertise designing API contracts, service startup patterns, and performance optimization.
• Interest in developer experience, tooling, and enabling engineers through well-designed software.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs between maintainability, delivery speed, and technical debt.
• Clear technical communication and constructive collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness to share knowledge, participate in design discussions, and drive continuous technical improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexibility to work from home, plus workation options of up to 90 days per year in the EU and up to 21 days globally, depending on citizenship.
• 25 days of paid annual leave, work-from-home support, home-office equipment, and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
• Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
• Share options, pension plan, lunch benefit, flexible benefits budget, hirify.global shopping budget, and commute support.
• MacBook equipment, employee assistance for employees and families, team-building events, a dog-friendly office, and bike leasing.