Senior Software Engineer, Back Market
Circularity Order Lifecycle
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
Open for applications
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To do more with what we already have.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for versatile engineers who show strong ownership and are motivated to take on new challenges across the technical stack while helping us move our technology forward
- Driven by the desire to craft outstanding products, you understand how to deliver seamless user experiences at scale
- We are looking for passion in creating systems by producing clean, consistent and well-organised code
- As well as a good team player supporting colleagues and creating a learning and sharing environment!
- English must be a no-brainer as you will join an international team dispatched in different locations around the world (US/FR/ES/JP)
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go (primary requirement) and proven experience with Python
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, with experience building and maintaining high-traffic backend services and regular feature delivery
- Working knowledge of modern web frontend technologies (Vue.js, React, or similar) with comfort in JavaScript/TypeScript for full-stack contribution
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, non-disruptive production releases with strong SDLC knowledge and comprehensive testing experience
- Experience building observability systems (monitoring, alerting, tracing) and using data to drive improvements, with incident management and on-call experience
- Strong knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), with expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL)
- Demonstrated pragmatism in technical decision-making, able to challenge approaches diplomatically and question task legitimacy when appropriate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences in cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to work autonomously within squad scope, managing deliverables while contributing to team knowledge through documentation and code reviews
- We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications
What the job involves
- The Sales Customer Care squad’s mission is to provide a seamless post-sales experience to our Customers and empower our Agents with the right tools to deliver timely and qualitative support
- To achieve this, we closely collaborate with our Business and Operations partners to identify new opportunities to improve Customer and Agent experiences, and with other Care squads to deliver on them
- As a Software Engineer, you will work closely with all members of your squad, and the Staff engineer of your group. Bi-monthly rituals with your group and the Chapter will allow you to share what works for your squad, learn what works for others, and make sure your technical direction is aligned with the overall vision
- You will be working in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the product that they own
- Traditionally based on a monolith, Back Market's technical stack has been undergoing a radical transformation in recent years into a distributed and service-oriented architecture. This transition provides an opportunity to modernize the platform, raising engineering standards
- Building a set of efficient and loosely coupled services is one of the main challenges to face for the years to come. But teams are excited to independently control their release schedules, manage their data, SLAs, tools, and – ultimately – be responsible for their own service-offering. Meanwhile, Platform teams are working to provide a scalable, consistent and secure platform, one that makes engineering teams more productive
- Facilitates meaningful discussions around complex issues
- Suggests or makes improvements for existing designs and architecture for quarter-bounded projects or mission-critical areas in their squad
- Explores technologies with sizable potential impact for the team
- Is able to contribute actively to high impact chaos mitigation
- Identifies and advocate for prioritization of tasks that can optimize delivery
- Our technical environment:
- Backend stack: Python - FastAPI , SQLAlchemy, Celery, Golang, Django (being phased out)
- Frontend stack: VueJS, Typescript, Nuxt, Revolve ( our design system)
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BigQuery
- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Github
Application process
- Call with a Senior Tech TA, 45 min
- Coding and Testing module, 60 min
- System design Feature interview, 45 min
- Data module, 45 min
- Technical Leadership, 45 min
- Meet your manager, 30 min
- Back Market Values fit interview - 45 min
Our take
At a time when new smartphones launch frequently but with fewer new features and when individuals want to contribute to sustainability and the circular economy, Back Market is setting out to provide customers with a viable option of purchasing refurbished electronics goods.
The vision of the company is to become the default choice when it comes to electronics purchases, irrespective of the customers' budget. In order to materialise this vision, Back Market guarantees that all the devices sold on its platform are 100% functional. The company screens sellers before allowing them to join its platform and it monitors their performance in real-time by collecting detailed customer feedback. By doing this, it hopes to restore trust in refurbished devices and to make sustainability an easy, safe, and affordable choice.
Back Market operates in 17 counties and has a client roster that includes Netflix, Disney, BBC, Sony, and Apple. The company has also raised over $1 billion in capital, which has been invested in expansion across new and current markets. And with the recommerce market only growing, Back Market has a lot of room for exciting future growth.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Beaubourg, Paris, France
Leadership
Thibaud Hug de Larauze
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Logistic Export Assistant at Devanlay Lacoste and an Account Manager at Neteven.
Amandine Durr
(CPO)Amandine joined Back Market in 2021 as CPO. Prior to this, they were a Product Director at ManoMano, a Senior Innovation product Manager at Kering, and CPO/CEO and Head of Product at We Are TV.
Clément Petit
(CFO)Previously spent nearly 3 years at Veepee, initially joining as a Financial Director before becoming CFO of France then later Group CFO. Prior to that, they spent 4 years at Elanco in Financial roles.
Dawn Baker
(CTO)Dawn joined Back Market in 2022 as Senior VP of Engineering, becoming CTO in 2023. Prior to this, they worked at Google as a Senior Director of Engineering, at Fitbit as the VP of Software Engineering, and at LinkedIn as a Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering.
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