Senior Software Engineer - Search and Recommendation

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?

Our technology department, known as the Bureau of Technology (BoT), is at the heart of Back Market.
It consists of over 30 dynamic product teams that are engaged in developing and managing services to deliver significant value to our customers and suppliers. These teams are effectively supported by our Platform group, which includes more than 10 specialized teams addressing cross-cutting technical issues to enhance our operational capabilities.

In addition to these functional teams, we have established numerous groups dedicated to sharing knowledge across various technical disciplines, such as security, backend, frontend, AI, and mobile. These groups serve as hubs for collaboration and professional development, providing ample learning opportunities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Search & Reco's team mission:
We use our expertise to help customers find the right models and services for them

As a Software Engineer, you will work closely with all members of your squad, and the Staff engineer of your group. Bi-monthly rituals with your group and the Chapter will allow you to share what works for your squad, learn what works for others, and make sure your technical direction is aligned with the overall vision.

What you will do in this role

We’re looking for versatile engineers who show strong ownership and are motivated to take on new challenges across the technical stack while helping us move our technology forward.

You will be working in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the product that they own.

Driven by the desire to craft outstanding products, you understand how to deliver seamless user experiences at scale.

We are looking for passion in creating systems by producing clean, consistent and well-organized code.

As well as a good team player supporting colleagues and creating a learning and sharing environment!

English must be a no-brainer as you will join an international team dispatched in different locations around the world (US/FR/ES/JP).

Technical environmentOur platform is based on Nuxt/Vue.js and our own Design System. We love TypeScript, our design tokens and Tailwind are in a bromance, and we do our best to be accessible to anyone.

Everything is Server Side Rendered, and served through Node.js, Cloudflare CDN and Cloudflare Workers. Our GitHub contributions go through CircleCI, to be fully tested by Vitest, the Testing Library and Playwright. We release and deploy in production multiple times a day.

Required profile :

• You have already worked on projects based on Vuejs, React or Angular.
• You have significant experience with web technologies such as Javascript, NodeJS, HTML 5 and CSS.
• Quality of code is your priority and you follow best practices.
• Scrum and kanban are not karate katas and you hate the V-cycle.
• You are comfortable working both in a team and also working independently to ensure goals are achieved.
• You have the ability to foresee where your interfaces may need to be altered to keep in line with the company strategy.
• You want to join a challenging technical environment: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, Django, VueJs, Nuxt, Algolia, Datadog, Spinnaker, SQS, ElasticSearch, Nginx, UWSGI.

Bonus Skills :

• You understand the back-end constraints and can design an API call.
• You're good at finding cool names.
• You have experience with Single Page Applications served in Server Side Rendering such as Nuxt/Next
• You've already tried TypeScript, Flow, etc...
• Monitoring is second nature
• Software craftsmanship & clean code are in your library

Recruitment process : 

* Call with one of our Tech talent acquisition manager - 45 min 

* Technical screening with 2 frontend engineers 45 min 

* Technical Interview & Technical Leadership Interview with 2 members of the tech team - 90min

* Coffee chat with your future engineering manager - 30 min 

* Back Market values interview with 2 members of the Exec level - 45min

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 (93.2).

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.

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 (93.2).

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.