Senior Frontend Engineer II - Developer Experience ◉

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of more than 650, powering operations in 18 countries (and counting!).

Back Market is undergoing meteoric growth and has raised $884 million, with a valuation of $5.7 billion. Our mission is simple: empowering people to buy tech sustainably by offering folks a high-quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact.

Be part of a great and growing adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.

Within the BoT (Bureau of Technology) department, the Platform tribe plays a central role in designing and maintaining the core technical components of our infrastructure, providing tools, services, and key solutions to support the development of our products.

The Developer Experience (DevXP) team, a part of this tribe, is responsible for our internal developer experience journey within the platform.

As a Frontend Engineer within the DevXP team, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of frontend components that underlie our technological ecosystem. You will be able to work on all aspects of our technological stack while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Technical Design and Development

• Participate in the design and development of front-end solutions for the Platform, Chapter, and Squads
• Contribute to the development and roadmap of an internal information portal (DevPortal) for all engineers at Back Market
• Collaborate with other members of the Platform teams to ensure integration with other system components
• Propose solutions to the different teams around the subjects of feature flags, Rollout Strategy, or AB testing

Integration and Collaboration

• Work in collaboration with various teams, such as the Product, Staff Engineer, ICs, or QA teams, as well as the Frontend Chapter to understand needs and provide suitable solutions (Release, Testing, E2E, etc.)
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and problem-resolution sessions within the team but also for all DevServices or Platform teams
• Participation and implementation of Frontend training in the development and release of engineering best practices
• Implementation of inner-sourcing practices about DevPortal, allowing other teams to easily contribute to the project
• Workshop animation and presentation during the Frontend Chapter

Maintenance and Improvement:

• Propose and implement continuous improvements to optimize the existing functionalities of our tools
• Support the maintenance and new feature development for Pastrami and Front-Apps projects
• Maintenance and internal tools within DevXP such as DevPortal or DSE
• Ensure that our technology stacks comply with the norms, standards, and best practices defined within BackMarket
• Setting up forms to collect feedback and future needs

Performance, Security, Reliability

• Diagnose and resolve bugs, performance issues, and security issues in collaboration with the SRE team or Chapter Frontend
• Optimize component performance and scalability to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience
• Implement security practices to protect data and users
• Contribute to the creation of a resilient and highly available infrastructure in partnership with the Infrastructure teams

Technological innovation

• Explore and learn about new technologies and best practices to continually improve platform capabilities and performance
• Anticipate internal technical developments via roadmap elements

What we are looking for

• Knowledge and ease of use of Backend programming language such as Python, Go or Node and DevOps tools with a strong understanding of programming concepts and more particularly with front-end languages and frameworks (JavaScript, TypeScript, VueJs)
• Strong appetite and first experience regarding the subjects of CI/CD, Release, and more generally the world of DevOps
• Understanding of software architecture principles, service integration, and development best practices.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, and user interface design
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment

Recruitment process

• Call with Marie, our Tech Talent Advisor for a better undersanding abour your research - 45 min
• A Tech screening with two Frontend engineers - 45 min
• A Kick off feature exercice with two Frontend Engineers - 60 min
• Tech leadership Interview with two persons from the BoT team - 45 min
• Coffee chat with Guillaume, your future manager - 45 min
• Back Market values Interview with C-level - 45 min

Hybrid position:3 days / week at Barcelona office (Monday is mandatory)

If you don’t have all the required skills, apply anyway!

* Why join us ? *

- A meaningful job: you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!

- A meaningful company: we became a mission-driven company in January 2022.

- Be part of a worldwide growing company based in Europe, the USA and Asia to face great challenges : you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas!

- Work alongside passionate experts: who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career. 

- Grow your career: with a flexible career path and a dedicated Learning & Development team. Back Market will help you evolve with personalized internal trainings and external handpicked providers from day 1!

- Leadership Academy by Back Market:“be a coach not a dictator” is at the core of this program ! We train and enable all our leaders to support their team towards achieving goals. Be a manager at Back Market is an unique experience we take by heart.

- An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including : Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc…

- One Loving Tribe: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment. 

- Be part of one of our Employee Resource Groups createdaround shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet. 

- Several internal events: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual).

- We’re here to SABOTAGE: It’s our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact.

Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer which means we pledge to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a “Société à Mission”, or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can’t tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.