Senior DevOps Engineer II - DevXP Team

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.

Within the BoT (Bureau of Technology) department, the Platform tribe plays a central role in designing and maintaining the core technical components of our infrastructure, providing key tools, services, and solutions to support the development of our products and engineers. The Developer Experience (DevXP) team, part of this tribe, specifically manages the entire development and deployment chain within the platform for all our engineers.

As a DevOps Engineer within the DevXP team, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of infrastructure components and deployment tools that underpin our technology ecosystem. You will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of our technology stack while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

What You will do

• Participate in the design and development of toolings, processes and workflow for all engineers at Back Market
• Maintain and evolve the development and deployment tools for the different Backend, Frontend, Mobile & Data projects
• Collaborate with various teams, such as Product teams, Staff Engineers, ICs, or QA, as well as the Frontend Chapter to understand needs and provide tailored solutions (Release, Testing, Workflow, etc)
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and problem-solving sessions within the team and for all DevServices or Platform teams
• Collaborate with various teams, such as Product teams, Staff Engineers, ICs, or QA, as well as the Frontend Chapter to understand needs and provide tailored solutions (Release, Testing, Workflow, etc)
• Propose and implement continuous improvements to optimize existing tooling functionalities
• Diagnose and resolve bugs, performance issues, and security issues in collaboration with the SRE team or Platform Chapter
• Optimize the performance and scalability of components to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience
• Lead workshops and present at Platform Chapter meetings

Your Background

• Strong knowledge of Python, Bash or Go AND Infrastructure tools as Kubernetes, CI/CD and Cloud computing ( GCP/AWS)
• Experience with Frontend languages and frameworks (JavaScript, TypeScript, VueJs)
• Strong interest and senior experience in CI/CD, Release topics, and the DevOps world in general
• Knowledge of software architecture principles, service integration, and development best practices
• Leadership skills to manage projects, and guide and motivate teams towards common goals
• Share knowledge and support teams, tribes, or every Back Maker
• Ability to convince and influence stakeholders to adopt best practices and proposed solutions
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

The Recruitment Process

• Call with Marie, our Tech Talent Advisor for a better understanding of your search - 45 min
• Coding - Tech Interview - 90 min
• Infra - Tech Interview - 45 min
• Team fit with Guillaume & Adrien - 45 min
• Cultural Fit with Dawn, our CTO - 45 min




If you don’t have all the required skills, apply anyway!

* 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.