Staff Backend Engineer

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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.

Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.

• Technical Ecosystem Ownership: take accountability for the entire technical ecosystem, including tools, languages, system lifecycle management, and software practices
• Company Technical Vision: challenge and support 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

• Expertise in Go or Python, 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
• Technical leadership assessment with our Staff Community, 45 min
• Pair programming session, 1 h
• System Design and API module, 45 min
• Data module, 45 min
• Meet your Manager, 30 min
• BM Values – Cultural fit, 45 min

• A mission‑driven work environment where your day‑to‑day makes an impact on the planet
• 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

Back Market is committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives – it’s one of the reasons we’re a high‑scoring certified B Corp company (93.2). We embed our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA, from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please discuss them with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Job Type: Full‑time
Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level