Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 700 people, powering operations in 17 countries (and counting!).
Named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume 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. We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.
Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.
Our engineering department, the Bureau of Technology
Representing a third of our overall team, the Bureau of Technology is structured around concepts introduced by the foundational “Spotify model”: Squads, Tribes, and Chapters.
Spread across 5 tribes, the ~20 Product squads are the cross-functional, autonomous teams building and operating services to deliver value to customers and suppliers. They are grouped in tribes addressing a common theme. These Product squads are supported by the ~10 Platform squads, which address the cross-cutting challenges, as well as the CyberSecurity team.
To know more about our Tech team, composed today of about 300 people, you can consult :
– A video from our VP of Engineering : https://urlz.fr/kyX6
– Our Career Site : https://jobs.backmarket.com/
– Some articles written by members of the BoT : https://urlz.fr/kyX8
What we’re looking for
BackMarket is looking for Engineering Leaders who will help drive our development team. The core competencies of this role include mentoring and coaching of people, cultivating a collaborative team, leading delivery, production operations, and continuous improvement. You will be working in an agile “build it and run it” environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the product they own.
About the team
The Checkout team is part of the Customer Journey Tribe that is in charge of the experience of customers searching and buying devices on our platform.
The Checkout team currently has two different scopes :
– Help the user to visualize the items in their shopping cart and finishing the purchase;
– Prepare and offer to the user the possibility to add a protection plan to the devices bought in our platform.
Because of this, we are on the critical path to bring revenue to the company and can have a significant impact.
Some of our challenges are to extract the current logic in a service oriented architecture, improve the quality of our services, communicate with other teams related to functionalities shown during the checkout process, improve the user experience, implement new ways of bringing those services to the user in a non-invasive way.
It is a very interesting and dynamic part of the project, we have lots of opportunities to collaborate and make an impact across different departments and have broader knowledge on how Back Market works.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading a collaborative team in delivering great software that our customers will love!
- Collaborating with the product group and other tribes to align the team with company objectives and initiatives across engineering and the wider business
- Ensuring the development of people and teams through ongoing coaching and mentoring
- Creating a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported do their best work
- Establishing open communication and a culture of feedback between team members
- Working with the team to identify and make improvements in our processes, practices and product
- Supporting teams in increasing the delivery proficiency by creating a learning environment
What you’ll bring to the team
- Experience and passion for growing, developing and guiding people
- Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe workplace
- Interest in working in an environment where leaders support their teams to do great work, through removing impediments, finding improvements, and facilitating effective decision making
- Enthusiasm about reaching new levels of effectiveness (and quality!)
- A background as an individual contributor and willingness to help when the team needs it
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English
- Excitement for learning about how our industry works and the impact we bring to our customers and the world
- Experience working in agile development teams with some knowledge of our following tech stack : AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, Django, VueJs, Nuxt, Algolia, Datadog, Spinnaker, SQS, ElasticSearch, Nginx, UWSGI.
Recruitment process
- Call with Stéphane, one of our tech talent acquisition specialist based in Barcelona
- Team Fit interview with your future Head of + Manager
- Tech Interview – 2h with 2 Engineers from the Tech Team
- Back Market Values fit interview
WHY SHOULD YOU 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.
