Staff Backend Engineer, Back Market
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
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Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a world that does more with what we already have by prolonging the lifespan of electronic devices through circularity and repair.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in Go ( even if the main language is Python at Back Market), but friendly with frontend frameworks
- Technical expertise building distributed systems addressing complex issues
- Experience successfully operating in a service oriented architecture
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Your expertise is deep and broad. You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs
- You strive for simplicity and understand the cost of building and maintaining software
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer for our Product Engineering organisation!
- You will demonstrate an ability to understand customer needs, business vision and decisions
- You will work with the team and leaders across the tech division to define our architecture vision
- You will think long term and make high judgement decisions to ensure we build maintainable software solutions
- You will help the team scale while delivering efficiently and pragmatically
- You will demonstrate technical leadership and mentor the team engineers
- You will immerse yourself in your team’s software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact
- Technical Ecosystem Ownership: Take accountability for the entire technical ecosystem, including tools, languages, system lifecycle management, and software practices
- Company Technical Vision: Challenging and supporting the technical vision of the company (including the backend), and the organizational effectiveness according to the roadmap
- Effective Communication: Demonstrate clear and fluent communication skills, including the ability to speak internally and publicly at major events
- BoT leadership collaboration: Define and contribute to the continuous improvement of Back Market technical KPIs
- External Visibility: Contribute actively to the company's external visibility through networking, speaking at tech events, and open-source contributions
- Versatility and Trust: Operate across the entire tech division, entrusted with critical projects and initiatives
- Nurture staff engineering practices at Back Market
Application process
- Initial phonescreen with our TA expert , 45 min
- Pair programming session , 1 h
- System Design and API module , 45 min
- Data module, 45 min
- Technical leadership assessment, 45 min
- Meet your Manager, 30 min
- Meet the Staff community , 45 min
- BM Values- Cultural fit 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 16 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 benefits
- Hybrid working: Put on real pants only when you have to: work from home twice a week and remotely 1 week per quarter
- Comprehensive leave: Take the time you need for yourself and your people with a minimum of 25 days of PTO per year
- Parental leave: Family comes first with 12-14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 5 weeks for the second parent
- Volunteer days: Get paid to stand up for a cause you believe in, two days per year
- Health insurance: Take care of yourself with comprehensive health plans
- Stock options: Your hard work doesn’t just benefit a few, it also benefits you
- Mental health support: Just as important as your physical health. We want to give you the support you need
- Annual retreat: Relax or party! We have something for everyone at our legendary All-Hands offsite
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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