Senior Backend Engineer Job at Adevinta (Amsterdam)

Senior Backend Engineer

Adevinta

Location:
Netherlands , Amsterdam

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

You will join our multi-disciplinary C2C Buyers team in Amsterdam as a Senior Backend Developer, reporting to the team’s Engineering Manager. You will help improve the experience for consumers buying from other consumers on our platform, building scalable backend solutions that support discovery, trust, and smooth transactions. You’ll work with modern technologies in a microservices architecture, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD and engineering best practices. We take a data-driven, experimental, and Agile approach to product development with heavy use of A/B testing, and insights-driven feature research.

Job Responsibility:

Design and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions
Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code using industry best practices
Mentor junior and mid-level developers
Help to improve work in all areas: coding, processes, testing, tools, collaboration
As an engineer, you’re not limited to Backend development, but will have the opportunity to collaborate with other technical stacks in our company
Promote engineering practices within the team and across the organisation as a part of the Backend chapter
Work collaboratively in a hybrid work model (at least once a week in the office)

Requirements:

Experience in software development in the online arena with a large user base
At least 6+ years of full-time employment on large and distributed systems
You already live in the Netherlands and are entitled to work here
Experience running large systems written in JVM languages like Java, Kotlin or preferably Scala
Experience in event-driven microservices architecture
Experience with observability tools such as Kibana, Grafana or Prometheus or DataDog or other cloud solutions
Experience running services in cloud environments like AWS or GCP
Experience with relational databases (like MySQL) and NoSQL (like Cassandra)
Familiarity with designing REST apis

Nice to have:

Experience with Kafka, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and Terraform
Familiarity with observability tools
Experience with Node.js

What we offer:

An attractive Base Salary
Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere
A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 25, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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