Senior Frontend Engineer - Design System

Hi, we’re Back Market.

We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new.

Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.

Are you ready to join us? 

The Design System team

The Design System team at Back Market is tasked with enabling our product, engineer and design teams to build consistent, high quality user experiences on our product platforms.

By coupling our respective know-how, we provide expertise on Web engineering, brand, usability and accessibility matters as part of our day-to-day. We’re responsible for maintaining and improving our web component library, its documentation and development environment, as well as the workflows and automations that allow us to keep design and front-end teams aligned and able to work together smoothly.

The role

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Design System team composed of three frontend engineers, 1 Android engineer, 1 iOS engineer, one product designer and one Engineering Manager.

You will contribute to the development and operations of our Design System. With the team, you will improve and automate the delivery and maintenance of our components and assets. You will heighten the usability of the Design System by iteratively improving our documentation & guidelines, and through direct support and advocacy. You will help us innovate and scale to enable Back Market to expand as fast as ever.

What you will do:

• Building, maintaining, and improving a robust design system for Back Market’s B2C & B2B touchpoints (Responsive Web, iOS, and Android), along with colleagues
• Supporting contributions on the front-end perimeter, through facilitation, support, code reviews, and developer experience improvements
• Maintaining our front-end codebase and tooling, and developing a joint vision with the Front-End Chapter on our technological choices
• Ensuring smooth delivery of our Web codebase and supporting the Front-End Chapter in planning, executing, or automating migrations
• Building and maintaining automation and other tools that allow us to operate at a larger scale (automation of tokens delivery, assets, plugins, CI/CD)
• Identifying further opportunities for the Design System to scale
• Improving our documentation platform and its content to ensure an easy understanding of the Design System and to increase its adoption
• Helping us ensure our experiences adhere to accessibility standards and other relevant practices

You're perfect for this role if:

• You are familiar with Design System challenges or you have owned or significantly contributed to a Design System
• You have solid experience in some of the following topics: Vue.js, accessibility, Web performance, SEO, SSR, DevOps ( Circle CI) , QA, code generation, code analysis
• You’re comfortable with APIs, CI environments, and cloud platforms and can build bridges between them and code repositories
• You love to coach and mentor others and to support the growth of team members whatever their seniority, but you also stay humble and ready to learn from others
• You’re aware of the importance of good communication between designers and engineers, and you can easily discuss your work with a non-technical audience
• You are inherently curious, you are idealistic but you challenge the status quo responsibly
• You can proactively advocate your impact and autonomously communicate progress, learnings, and goals to the company and beyond
• You are comfortable communicating professionally in English as we are an international team

Recruitment process:

• Phone screen with Marie, our Tech recruiter - 45 min
• Code review with our frontend team - 45 min
• Frontend technical interview focused on Design System topics -60 min
• Relationship building with your future manager, Meri - 45min
• BM values interview with our leadership team - 45min

Note:

Hybrid policy -3 days / week at Barcelona office (Monday is mandatory)  

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌🏼

At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2).

No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like: 

- A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.

- Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days. 

- Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training. 

At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values. 

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. 

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.