Frontend chapter lead

BackMarket is the number one European (and soon global) marketplace specializing in the sale of fully refurbished tech devices.

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.

The Frontend Engineer Chapter is composed of 32 passionate frontends and its mission is to scale & elevate Back Market web application(s) for our customers, merchant & staff.

The Frontend Chapter focus is:

- Suitable(s) and maintainable(s) frameworks to fit the BackMarket business needs (now & future).

- Smooth & Fast time to production. Having more ownership of the code shipped & a much better velocity.

- Improving our resiliency & quality, in order to live Black Fridays as any other day at Back Market.

- Improving the product quality & ability to iterate on it (data-driven & fast pace product testing).

We aim to empower users to find the right products & services on Back Market. This means helping our customers to discover, understand, trust & love Back Market, encouraging them to explore our catalog through seamless browsing flows and promoting tailored content.

The Frontend Chapter is therefore very customer-facing and driven by the user experience. As a Principal Engineer, you will have a key transversal and very impactful role across all the chapter's teams. You will help all the front-end engineers to accomplish their best work and bring beautifully crafted experiences to our customers.

Your expertise is deep and broad. You are able to navigate between hands-on and hands-off work, producing both high-quality code and architectural designs. You strive for simplicity and understand the cost of building and maintaining software.    

What you will be doing:

What you will bring to the team :

Recruitment process :

- Call with Yann one of our tech talent acquisition specialist senior

- Technical Screening - 30mns code review

- Tech Interview - 2h with two Engineers from the Tech Team

- Team Fit interview with your Manager

- Back Market Values fit interview

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.