Senior Software Engineer, Back Market
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3 days a week in office
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
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Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
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 a versatile Software Engineer with strong frontend fundamentals and a healthy curiosity for everything around them
- You enjoy understanding how things work beyond the browser, and you're comfortable reasoning across the edge, CDN, server, application, and data layers
- Strong professional experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
- Solid frontend fundamentals, including browser behaviour, HTTP, SSR, APIs, performance, and application architecture
- Experience with Vue.js and Nuxt, or a comparable frontend ecosystem
- A good understanding of caching and performance trade-offs. You can reason about cache keys, invalidation, freshness, consistency, and privacy
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and production software delivery
- Interest in the broader stack, including backend services, infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling
- Strong ownership and a pragmatic approach to solving problems
- The ability to navigate ambiguity, explain complex topics clearly, and work well with others
- Good written and spoken English
- You don't need to know every tool in our stack. We certainly don't expect you to. What matters is that you can learn quickly, ask good questions, and make complex things simpler for the engineers using your work
- 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
- You might work on frontend architecture one day, improve CI or local development the next, and then dive into performance, observability, deployment, or platform tooling
- This is a build-it-and-run-it environment. We own what we build, operate it in production, and improve it when reality inevitably gives us feedback
- Build and improve platform capabilities and Golden Paths for frontend engineers
- Make frontend delivery more consistent, reliable, and self-service
- Improve the developer experience across local development, testing, CI/CD, releases, and deployments
- Work on complex frontend platform topics such as caching, performance, configuration, observability, and application architecture
- Help define sensible standards without creating unnecessary ceremony
- Collaborate with - Build and improve platform capabilities and Golden Paths for frontend engineers
- Collaborate with product engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders across Back Market.product engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders across Back Market
- Write maintainable code with appropriate tests and documentation
- Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, incident response, and the occasional "how did this end up in production?" investigation
- Share what you learn and help make the platform easier for everyone to use
- Our technical environment:
- Frontend: Vue.js, TypeScript, Nuxt, Storybook, Tailwind
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Go
- Data and messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BigQuery
- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub, BackStage, Grafana, Open Telemetry
Application process
- HR screening, 45 minutes
- Coding and testing module, 60 minutes
- System design discussion, 60 minutes
- Tech leadership and manager interview, 75 minutes
- Back Market values interview, 45 minutes
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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