Data Engineering Manager

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.

Our engineering department, the Bureau of technology

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.

Our staff engineers also play a pivotal role throughout the company, lending their expertise across different domains. They provide leadership and technical guidance, promoting alternative career paths for growth beyond traditional management roles.

About the role

Back Market is looking for a Data Engineering Manager who will lead our Data Platform squad (10 engineers) within the Platform division.

The core competencies of this role include mentoring and coaching people, cultivating a collaborative team, leading delivery, production operations, and continuous improvement. As in Back Market, we lead by example, we expect the role to also be hands-on, so personal contribution is expected

Data is a key enabler for a company like Back Market. Do you want to help your team build reliable, high-performing and secure data infrastructures and tools? Do you want to have a meaningful impact through your job? Here is your opportunity. 

To know more about our Tech team, composed today of about 300 people, you can consult:

- A video of our CTO: https://bit.ly/3Vf6k9o

- Our company purpose: http://bit.ly/3OsScpl

- Our engineering blog: https://bit.ly/3ASJNID

Main technical challenges

Traditionally based on a monolith, Back Market's technical stack has been undergoing a radical transformation in recent years into a distributed and service-oriented architecture. This transition provides an opportunity to modernize the platform, raising engineering standards.

Building a set of efficient and loosely coupled services is one of the main challenges to face for the years to come. But teams are excited to independently control their release schedules, manage their data, SLAs, tools, and – ultimately – be responsible for their own service-offering. Meanwhile, Platform teams are working to provide a scalable, consistent and secure platform, one that makes engineering teams more productive.

Our technical environment

Application

Python - FastAPI framework

SQLAlchemy

Celery

Golang

Django (being phased out)

Data

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

BigQuery

Infrastructure

GCP

Kubernetes (GKE) / Docker

Datadog

ArgoCD / CircleCI / Github

What you will do in this role 🕵️

• Leading a collaborative team in delivering great software that our customers and sellers will love!
• Collaborating with the product group and other tribes to align the team with company objectives and initiatives across engineering and the wider business
• Ensuring the development of people and teams 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
• Working with the team to identify and make improvements in our processes, practices and product
• Supporting teams in increasing delivery proficiency by creating a learning environment.

You will be successful in the role if:

• Experience and passion for growing, developing, and guiding people
• Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe workplaceInterest 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!)
• A background as an individual contributor and willingness to help when the team needs it
• 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 are able to understand the tech challenges of your team and guide them through decisions.
• Our stack is GCP (Datastream), GCP (Big Query, Data Catalog), Terraform, Datadog, Python, Scala, Cloud Composer.
• Experience working in agile development teams with some knowledge of our following tech 
• A past experience in finance or payment would be a very strong asset
• You like to work in the office because it's a hybrid position (2 days per week in the office).

Recruitment Process

•  Call with our tech talent acquisition specialist (30-45mn)
• Leadership Principles Interview with 2 EM (60mn)
• Technical interview with 2 members of the tech team (60mn)
• Stakeholder interview with the VP Platform/ Data + Staff Engineer (60 mn)
• Back Market values interview with 2 members of the Exec level (30mn)

* 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.