Senior Software Engineer

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.
Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break.

About the role
We're looking for a versatile Software Engineer with strong frontend fundamentals and a healthy curiosity for everything around them.
You might work on frontend architecture one day, improve CI or local development the next, and then dive into performance, observability, deployment, or platform tooling. You enjoy understanding how things work beyond the browser, and you're comfortable reasoning across the edge, CDN, server, application, and data layers.
This is a build-it-and-run-it environment. We own what we build, operate it in production, and improve it when reality inevitably gives us feedback.

What you'll do
- Build and improve platform capabilities and Golden Paths for frontend engineers.
- Make frontend delivery more consistent, reliable, and self-service.
- Improve the developer experience across local development, testing, CI/CD, releases, and deployments.
- Work on complex frontend platform topics such as caching, performance, configuration, observability, and application architecture.
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- Build and improve platform capabilities and Golden Paths for frontend engineers.
- Make frontend delivery more consistent, reliable, and self-service.
- Improve the developer experience across local development, testing, CI/CD, releases, and deployments.
- Work on complex frontend platform topics such as caching, performance, configuration, observability, and application architecture.
- Write maintainable code with appropriate tests and Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, incident response, and the occasional \"how did this end up in production?\" What we're looking for
- Strong professional experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Solid frontend fundamentals, including browser behaviour, SSR, APIs, performance, and application architecture.
- Experience with Vue.js and Nuxt, or a comparable frontend ecosystem.
- A good understanding of caching and performance trade-offs. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and production software delivery.
- Interest in the broader stack, including backend services, infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling.
- Good written and spoken English.
Our technical environment
- Frontend: Vue.js, TypeScript, Nuxt, Storybook, Tailwind
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Go
- Data and messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BigQuery
- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub, BackStage, Grafana, Open TelemetryRecruitment process
- HR screening, 45 minutes
- Coding and testing module, 60 minutes
- System design discussion, 60 minutes
- Tech leadership and manager interview, 75 minutes
- Back Market values interview, 45 minutesHybrid workWe work in a hybrid setup, with three days per week in the office. Additionally there is one remote week per quarter.
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).
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.