Android Engineer

Overview Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 650 people, powering operations in 18 countries (and counting). Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact. We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014. Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech. Mobile Engineering at Back Market At Back Market, we are strongly inspired by developing a great m-commerce app, with an optimized and advanced user experience. We want to go further than just display products as a marketplace and we have exciting ambitions and features to bring to our users in our mobile app for the upcoming years. Each squad is composed of pairs of iOS & Android engineers, working on the native language to build the best experience for our users. That’s why we are also in favor of having mobile engineers from product squads contributing to technical & core projects from time to time. The role & responsibilities We are looking for an Senior Android Engineer to join the Circularity customer team. It benefits customers by increasing their purchasing power, refurbishers by providing additional supply, and Back Market by generating repetitions on the website. We have the mission in 2024 and beyond, to provide the best features, services & user experience for our app users. The engineer in this role will produce advanced app-first features, contribute to the Android engineering excellence & innovation, and share their knowledge within the Android Community at Back Market. The engineer will also contribute to the mobile engineering chapter, with talented iOS & Android engineers but also with other engineers from other platforms (SRE, Backend, Frontend, CyberSec, Data…). Whether hooked on Kotlin, developing advanced and smooth UI & UX, or architecturing scalable features, the engineer will share & remain open to new ideas. Consistently delivers Android code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability, making the Android app scalable & accelerating product iterations Eager to elevate the app user experience by collaborating with the Product Manager & Product Designer, and by implementing quick-wins UI animations, transitions, accessibility, and Design System components. Effectively contributing to technical initiatives to reach the Android engineering & product vision , accountable for large team project features, including ones with external dependencies. Curiosity and proactiveness in implementing Kotlin and Android technologies like Compose (migration started in 2023). Find ways to prevent regressions, push for Unit and UI testing by collaborating with QA & Android Engineers, and explore new E2E testing practices, from native to third-party solutions. Guarantee the Android app performance on the features developed with strong monitoring practices , including logs & metrics to measure UI & Core performance (Datadog, Crashlytics) Participation in the tech community is appreciated: events, meetups, continuous learning through blog articles and industry conferences. Technical screening with two Android engineers (~30 minutes) Live coding interview & mobile system design exercise (~1h45) It counts Be part of a worldwide growing company based in Europe, the USA and Asia to face great challenges : you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas Grow your career : with a flexible career path and a dedicated Learning & Development team. Back Market will help you evolve with personalized internal trainings and external handpicked providers from day 1 Leadership Academy by Back Market: “be a coach not a dictator” is at the core of this program Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc… It’s our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a “Société à Mission”, or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can’t tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014.