Senior Engineering Manager, refurbed
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SQL
AWS
GCP
Azure
BigQuery
Expert level
Remote from Europe, UK
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Refurbished electronics marketplace
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Refurbished electronics marketplace
201-500 employees
B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityConsumer GoodsEnvironmentaleCommerce
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
SQL
AWS
GCP
Azure
BigQuery
Expert level
Remote from Europe, UK
More information about location
201-500 employees
B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityConsumer GoodsEnvironmentaleCommerce
Company mission
Refurbed's mission is to change the world for the better by making refurbished products the new normal.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here
- You are a senior, trusted engineering leader with 8+ years of experience managing engineers in platform, infrastructure, or data teams
- You have led teams where the customer is internal, you understand what it means to provide a service to other engineers and how to measure success in that context
- You have a proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent, as well as manage performance with clarity and empathy
- You lead with low ego, openness, and a belief in autonomy and empowerment, where engineers take ownership and collaborate effectively
- You partner with product managers and engineering leaders to evolve Platform and Data Engineering as products
- You establish feedback loops and metrics to understand developer experience, delivery friction, and engineering effectiveness, using those insights to guide investments
- You have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, BigQuery), but AWS or Azure also relevant
- You have experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based environments including CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability stacks
- You understand data engineering fundamentals: pipeline design, data warehouse modeling, transformation tooling, and data quality practices
- You are comfortable reviewing infrastructure-as-code, participating in architecture reviews, and guiding trade-off discussions around reliability, cost, and performance
- You have a solid understanding of backend systems, distributed architectures, and how scalable services are designed, enabling you to actively participate in architectural discussions and guide teams toward sound decisions
- You understand SQL, relational database concepts, and modern backend development practices well enough to provide context, make informed decisions, and remove ambiguity
- While you are not expected to be hands-on day to day, you feel confident reviewing high-level designs, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring that the team ships robust, thoughtful solutions
- You thrive in environments where your team's success is measured by the success of others, you view other engineering teams as your primary stakeholders
- You build trust across teams through reliability, transparency, and clear communication of your team's roadmap, incidents, and limitations
- You influence through clarity and context rather than authority, building alignment across teams and domains
- You are skilled at understanding the needs of product squads and translating them into infrastructure priorities, developer tooling improvements, or data platform investments
- You cultivate a culture focused on ownership and reliability
- You promote modern engineering practices, clear and simple processes
- You foster transparency, feedback, and knowledge-sharing
- You reject blame culture and treat incidents as learning opportunities
- You are self-directed, aligned with objectives, and comfortable navigating ambiguity
- You are confident representing your teams across the whole organization and with company leadership
- Excellent English skills and based in Europe
- Strong background in software engineering, infrastructure, or data systems, with a strong foundation for systems thinking
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider at depth (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure also relevant)
- Background in either platform/infrastructure or data engineering at depth, with meaningful exposure to the other
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/x) to lead our Platform and Data Engineering teams. These are supporting teams, their mission is to multiply the effectiveness of every product squad at refurbed by providing reliable infrastructure, shared services, clean data, and developer tooling. You will own the technical foundation that product teams build on, and ensure it is stable, scalable, and easy to work with
- Our platform technology stack includes Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ on the backend, with infrastructure running on Google Cloud Platform provisioned with Terraform, and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Our data platform is built with Python on top of BigQuery
- Manage and support engineers across the Platform and Data Engineering teams, ensuring clear mission, healthy processes, and a productive working environment that doesn't depend on individual heroics
- Conduct regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and support their personal and professional growth
- Build psychological safety, enable ownership, and help team members unlock their potential
- Facilitate technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Ensure your teams produce high-quality engineering outcomes by promoting best practices and establishing clear quality standards
- Contribute to code reviews or smaller technical tasks when needed, while keeping your focus on team impact not hands-on development
- Ensure infrastructure and data systems can support refurbed's growth ambitions
- Identify and resolve blockers, surface risks early, and maintain a productive environment where teams can move quickly with clarity
- Contribute to company, department and squad-level planning, driving both short- and long-term infrastructure and data strategies
- Participate in hiring and team growth, building a strong bench of senior engineers across both domains
- Strengthen the engineering culture through feedback, knowledge sharing, documentation, and leading by example
- Encourage experimentation, learning, and adoption of modern tools and practices, including AI-assisted engineering tools where they deliver meaningful outcomes
- Define and track success metrics for Platform and Data Engineering, including reliability, developer experience, platform adoption, operational efficiency, and engineering effectiveness (e.g. using DORA/SPACE Framework)
Our take
Buying refurbished electronics can be a fantastic way to give a device a second life whilst saving a bit of cash, but many people are sceptical of doing so. Such items are often sold through illegitimate channels, and there is no guarantee that the device will work for long, resulting in people avoiding refurbished goods.
Refurbed provides a refurbished electronics marketplace, which is challenging this. It allows users to browse and purchase refurbished devices that come with a minimum of 12 months' warranty.
The platform operates based on a monthly subscription fee, and whilst this will present a challenge when alternative marketplaces are free to use, the company has recognised that consumers are happy to pay for quality and warranty. Through its marketplace, the company aims to increase the prevalence of refurbished device purchases, helping to reduce waste and carbon footprints and helping consumers save money in the process. $40 million in 2025 funding is being invested into AI-driven efficiency and CX solutions.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$57.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2023
$57m
SERIES C
Total funding: $187.1m
Company benefits
- Refurbed Clubs - We have launched several internal clubs for team members to network, spend time together and share interests. Yoga, Mountain & Boards, Karaoke, Football, Board Games or Volunteering are among the current clubs that our team members enjoy
- Refurbed Parties - Work hard, party harder! We love celebrating success and therefore we plan four big events each year, including our anniversary, summer & Christmas party, as well as our very own Oktoberfest!
- Development opportunities - At refurbed, we embrace personal and professional development and are constantly working on new solutions. Apart from our Mentoring System, we love to organize seminars and workshops, such as "Young Leadership" and "Communication". We are currently working on the implementation of even more great opportunities!
- Gym membership support - Save -15% on your gym membership at GetFit! This gym is located right next to our office and offers the perfect space for your pre- or afterwork-workout
- Free fruit & drinks - After your workout at GetFit you might want to grab a healthy free snack from one of our three fully-equipped kitchens! Even if you do not want to work out, delicious fruits are always available 😉 After work, we are looking forward to having a drink (or two) with you!
- Remote work & flexi time - Work from our beautiful modern office located in the heart of Vienna or work from home - it's up to you! There are no core working hours - our team members can choose when they want to get work done
- Work equipment - Every team member receives a refurbished laptop on the first day. We provide everyone with additional monitors for working from home to be perfectly equipped even if not in the office
Company HQ
Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Vienna
Leadership
Peter Windischhofer
(Co-Founder)Founder of Yolmo.asia. Management Consultant for McKinsey & Company from 2014 to 2017.
Kilian Kaminski
(Co-Founder)Previously Marketing and Brand Manager for ProGreen, and was New Accounts Manager and Program Lead for Amazon Services from 2014 to 2017.
Jürgen Riedl
(Co-Founder)Alumnus of Startupbootcamp in 2012. Co-founder and CTO of refurbed since 2017.
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