Senior Backend Engineer, Back Market
Payout
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
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 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)
What the job involves
- Our staff engineers play a pivotal role throughout the company, lending their expertise across different domains
- They provide leadership and technical guidance, promoting alternative career paths for growth beyond traditional management roles
- As a Senior Backend 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 Backend 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
- Ensure a seamless transition with zero downtime and no revenue loss
- Reduce complexity while increasing adaptability of the codebase in the context of new country openings
- Guarantee high performance and reliability of production environments
- Application: Python - FastAPI framework, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Golang, Django (being phased out)
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BigQuery
- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes (GKE) / Docker, Datadog, ArgoCD / CircleCI / Github
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineerto help us build & operate a set of efficient, high cohesion, low coupling services with security and privacy by design in order to support the growth of the business
- 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
- 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 migration
- Identifiesand advocate for prioritization of tasks that can optimize delivery
- Main technical challenges:
- 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
Application process
- Call with Ana one of our tech talent acquisition specialist
- Coding & Testing interview- 1hour
- System Design & Data interview- 45 minutes each part
- Tech Leadership interview- 1 hour
- Coffee chat with your possible EM
- Back Market Values fit interview
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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