Senior Backend Engineer - Finance Experience
Senior Backend Engineer - Finance Experience
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15-03-2025
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Job Description
Back Market is the worlds 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 highquality accessible and more ecofriendly 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.
Our engineering department the Bureau of technology
Our technology department known as the Bureau of Technology (BoT) is at the heart of Back Market. It consists of over 30 dynamic product teams that are engaged in developing and managing services to deliver significant value to our customers and suppliers. These teams are effectively supported by our Platform group which includes more than 10 specialized teams addressing crosscutting technical issues to enhance our operational capabilities.
In addition to these functional teams we have established numerous groups dedicated to sharing knowledge across various technical disciplines such as security backend frontend AI and mobile. These groups serve as hubs for collaboration and professional development providing ample learning opportunities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Our staff engineers also play a pivotal role throughout the company lending their expertise across different domains. They provide leadership and technical guidance promoting alternative career paths for growth beyond traditional management roles.
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will work closely with all members of your squad and the Staff engineer of your group. Bimonthly rituals with your group and the Backend Chapter will allow you to share what works for your squad learn what works for others and make sure your technical direction is aligned with the overall vision.
Main technical challenges
Traditionally based on a monolith Back Markets technical stack has been undergoing a radical transformation in recent years into a distributed and serviceoriented architecture. This transition provides an opportunity to modernize the platform raising engineering standards.
Building a set of efficient and loosely coupled services is one of the main challenges to face for the years to come. But teams are excited to independently control their release schedules manage their data SLAs tools and ultimately be responsible for their own serviceoffering. Meanwhile Platform teams are working to provide a scalable consistent and secure platform one that makes engineering teams more productive.
As a Senior Backend Engineer the challenge is threefold:
Ensure a seamless transition with zero downtime and no revenue loss
Reduce complexity while increasing adaptability of the codebase in the context of new country openings
Guarantee high performance and reliability of production environments
Our technical environment
Application
Python FastAPI framework
SQLAlchemy
Celery
Golang
Django (being phased out)
Data
PostgreSQL
Redis
Kafka
RabbitMQ
BigQuery
Infrastructure
GCP
Kubernetes (GKE) / Docker
Datadog
ArgoCD / CircleCI / Github
What you will do in this role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineerto help us build & operate a set of efficient high cohesion low coupling services with security and privacy by design in order to support the growth of the business.
You will be working in an agile build it and run it environment where engineering teams build launch monitor and support the product that they own.
We are looking for passion in creating systems by producing clean consistent and wellorganised code. As well as a good team player supporting colleagues and creating a learning and sharing environment!
English must be a nobrainer as you will join an international team dispatched in different locations around the world (US/FR/ES/JP)
As a Senior I Engineer: Produce Innovate & Share
- Facilitates meaningful discussions around complex issues.
- Suggests or makes improvements for existing designs and architecture for quarterbounded projects or missioncritical areas in their squad.
- Explores technologies with sizable potential impact for the team.
- Is able to contribute actively to highimpact chaos migration.
- Identifiesand advocate for prioritization of tasks that can optimize delivery
Recruitment process
- Call with Ana 45 minutes) one of our tech talent acquisition specialist
- Coding & Testing interview 1hour
- System Design & Data interview 45 minutes each part
- Tech Leadership interview 1 hour
- Back Market Values fit interview
* 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 missiondriven company in January 2022.
Be part of a worldwide growing companybased in Europe the USA and Asia to facegreat 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 fastpaced openminded and friendly environment.
Be part of one of ourEmployee Resource Groupscreatedaround 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).
Were here to SABOTAGE:Its 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 Socit Mission or company with a social mission by the French government. We know we cant 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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