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Tech Lead Manager - Backend

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of more than 650, powering operations in 18 countries (and counting!).

Back Market is undergoing meteoric growth and has raised $884 million, with a valuation of $5.7 billion. Our mission is simple: empowering people to buy tech sustainably by offering folks a high-quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact.

Be part of a great and growing adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.


Back Market is looking for a Tech Lead Manager who will lead our Acquisition squad (3 Engineers).

The team supports the growth of both organic and paid traffic with projects such as internal linking automation or feeds creation and optimization for all channels.


In this hybrid role, you will manage a team of talented engineers as well as contribute directly to the services development.


Your mission is to ensure technical excellence, foster collaboration and drive innovation, embracing a growth hacking mindset based on experimentation, continuous improvement and proximity with stakeholders.


You will be responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with our business goals.



To know more about our Bureau of Technology (BoT), composed today of about 300 people, you can consult:

A video of our CTO: https://urlz.fr/kyX6

Our company purpose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1z5CafhGbM

Our engineering blog: https://urlz.fr/kyX8


What you'll be doing :
  • Leading a collaborative team in delivering great software that our customers will love!
  • Collaborating within the product engineering department to align the team with company objectives and initiatives across engineering and the wider business
  • You build strong roadmaps with the right balance of long-term strategic initiatives and more short-term tactical bets that embody the company’s strategy and the team’s growth-hacking mindset
  • Demonstrating a broad understanding of our global architecture and how your domains fits within it
  • Consistently delivering code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability
  • Ensuring the development of people through ongoing coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported to do their best work
  • Establishing open communication and a culture of feedback between team members
  • Working in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the sections they own
  • Supporting your team in increasing delivery proficiency by creating a learning environment


You're at the right place if:
  • Experience and passion for growing, developing, and guiding people
  • You like managing a team while continuing to contribute technically
  • Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe workplace
  • Experience working in agile development teams with knowledge of our following tech stack : AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, Django, VueJs, Nuxt, Datadog, Spinnaker,  Nginx, UWSGI
  • Interest in working in an environment where leaders support their teams to do great work, by removing impediments, finding improvements, and facilitating effective decision-making
  • Enthusiasm about reaching new levels of effectiveness (and quality!)
  • Good verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Excitement to learn about how our industry works and the impact we bring to our customers and the world
  • You have a problem-solving attitude and are comfortable navigating ambiguous situations with data and putting the user at the center.
  • You have a growth hacking mindset, you don't wait to act, you run experiments to test new ideas, and based on data you leverage these learnings to build more value


Recruitment Process
  • Call with Stéphane, one of our tech talent acquisition partner based in Barcelona
  • Leadership principles interview
  • Technical interview divided into 2 modules
  • Stakeholders Interview
  • Back Market Values fit interview


* Why join us ? *


A meaningful job: you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!

A meaningful company: we became a mission-driven company in January 2022.

- 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!

Work alongside passionate experts:  who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career. 

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 ! We train and enable all our leaders to support their team towards achieving goals. Be a manager at Back Market is an unique experience we take by heart.

An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including : Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc…

One Loving Tribe: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment. 

- Be part of one of our Employee Resource Groups createdaround shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet. 

Several internal events: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual).

We’re here to SABOTAGE: 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.


Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer which means we pledge to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.


Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. 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. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.

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Leading the way in a shift towards a circular economy, freeing the planet from electronic waste, and building a leading global tech company are three solid reasons to wake up every morning. Taking part in Back Market’s adventure means committing ...

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DATE POSTED
November 7, 2024

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