About 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. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.
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.
- Help define sensible standards without creating unnecessary ceremony.
- Collaborate with product engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders across Back Market.
- Write maintainable code with appropriate tests and documentation.
- Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, incident response, and the occasional "how did this end up in production?" investigation.
- Share what you learn and help make the platform easier for everyone to use.
Why should you join us?
- 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.
- Impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment.
What we're looking for
- Strong professional experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Solid frontend fundamentals, including browser behaviour, HTTP, 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. You can reason about cache keys, invalidation, freshness, consistency, and privacy.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and production software delivery.
- Interest in the broader stack, including backend services, infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling.
- Strong ownership and a pragmatic approach to solving problems.
- The ability to navigate ambiguity, explain complex topics clearly, and work well with others.
- 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 Telemetry
