This position is no longer available.

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

Permanent contract
Berlin
Salary: Not specified
No remote work

Back Market
Back Market

Interested in this job?

Questions and answers about the job

The position

Job description

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of more than 650, powering operations in 16 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.

As a Senior/Lead software engineer at Backmarket, you will join one of our feature teams handling the design, the development and the improvement of critical product features related to the evolution of our international business. You will be responsible for the reliability and performance of the code you and your team create. 

You will have ownership of your scope and will be partnering with other engineers both on your team and in the product area to ensure an effective delivery. Working closely with our departments on our technical roadmap and architecture, your work will have a major impact on the scaling and evolution of our product.

What you will be doing

  • Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within BackMarket in general.
  • Working in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the sections that they own
  • Facilitate collaboration with product owners and designers to solve interesting and exciting problems for scaling our service and delivering it worldwide.
  • Mentor your team in producing clean, consistent and well-organised code 
  • Identify your team pain points and drive improvements in our processes, practices and product
  • Proactively researching and leading design and adoption of best practices
  • Cultivate an open communication culture with constant feedback between team members
  • Supporting teams in increasing the delivery proficiency by creating a learning environment.
  • What you will bring to the team

  • A technical vision for your team and a passion for creating systems and improving your environment.
  • You love to write distributed, high-volume services and you know what it means to ship high-quality code.(clean code, TDD, BDD, DDD, SOLID).
  • Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive workplace
  • Great verbal and written communication skills in English 
  • Excitement for learning about how our industry works and the impact we bring to both our customers and the world 
  • Knowledge working on our Tech stack : AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, VueJs, Nuxt, Algolia, Datadog, Spinnaker, SQS, ElasticSearch, Nginx, UWSGI
  • WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ?

    • A meaningful job: through hard work, you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!

    • An attractive salary, equity, multiple benefits (meal tickets, health insurance, etc...), parental benefits, #remote friendly company, relocation package, internal events, etc… 

    • Technical challenges all day every day: you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas!

    • Work with passionate experts who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow! (Backademy, technical guilds, Meet-up & Conference) 

    • Grow your career with a flexible career path, BackMarket can help you evolve!

    • A booming scale-up: our environment is rapidly growing in Europe, the USA and soon in Asia!

    • A lot of fun: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment.

    BackMarket is an Equal Opportunity Employer for any minority, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.

    #LI-remote

    Want to know more?

    These job openings might interest you!

    These companies are also recruiting for the position of “Software & Web Development”.