Staff Backend Engineer

Hi, we're Back Market.

We're here to help
make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new
. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new.

Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break.
Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.
Are you ready to join us?

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer for our Product Engineering organisation

You will demonstrate an ability to understand customer needs, business vision and decisions.
You will work with the team and leaders across the tech division to define our architecture vision.

You will think long term and make high judgement decisions to ensure we build maintainable software solutions. You will help the team scale while delivering efficiently and pragmatically. You will demonstrate technical leadership and mentor the team engineers.

You will immerse yourself in your team's software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact.

Your expertise is deep and broad. You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs
.

You strive for simplicity and understand the cost of building and maintaining software.

What We Expect From You

• Technical Ecosystem Ownership: Take accountability for the entire technical ecosystem, including tools, languages, system lifecycle management, and software practices
• Company Technical Vision: Challenging and supporting the technical vision of the company (including the backend), and the organizational effectiveness according to the roadmap
• Effective Communication: Demonstrate clear and fluent communication skills, including the ability to speak internally and publicly at major events.
• BoT leadership collaboration: Define and contribute to the continuous improvement of Back Market technical KPIs
• External Visibility: Contribute actively to the company's external visibility through networking, speaking at tech events, and open-source contributions.
• Versatility and Trust: Operate across the entire tech division, entrusted with critical projects and initiatives

What you will bring to the team?

• Expertise in Go ( even if the main language is Python at Back Market), but friendly with frontend frameworks
• Technical expertise building distributed systems addressing complex issues
• Experience successfully operating in a service oriented architecture
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Nurture staff engineering practices at Back Market
• Initial phonescreen with our TA expert , 45 min

Hiring process

• Initial phonescreen with our TA expert , 45 min
• Pair programming session , 1 h
• System Design and API module , 45 min
• Data module, 45 min
• Technical leadership assessment, 45 min
• Meet your Manager, 30 min
• Meet the Staff community , 45 min
• BM Values- Cultural fit 45 min

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ?
At Back Market, we're committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it's one of the reasons we're such a high-scoring certified B Corp company

Benefits
No matter your role and seniority level, you'll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like:

• A mission-driven work environment where your day-to-day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.
• Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days.
• Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.

At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we're trying to change. We've embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.

We know that the perfect background for a role doesn't mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.