Senior Frontend Engineer - Identity

12 days ago
Full time role
Hybrid · Remote · Paris, IDF, FR... more
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.

The Identity squad is responsible for building a secure, resilient and scalable authentication and authorization stack for Back Market within Platform Tribe.
To achieve this, the team collaborates closely with our SecOps team as well as with various technical and business stakeholders across the organization. 

We’re looking for a senior Frontend engineer to join this team and build our in-house identity frontend components and interfaces.



You’ll be responsible for :

  • Designing and implementing features on our identity management stack to handle our future scale and business needs
  • Collaborating closely with Backend and Security engineers and owning the security concerns within the Identity Management squad
  • Ensuring that our technology stacks comply with the norms, standards, and best practices defined within BackMarket
  • Collaborate with other members of the Platform teams to ensure integration with other system components

What we are looking for :

  • You have already worked on projects based on Vue.js, React or Angular
  • You have significant experience with web technologies such as Javascript, NodeJS, HTML 5 and CSS
  • You understand the back-end constraints and are able to design an API call
  • Quality of code is your priority and you follow best practices
  • No, no, no, no, testing is not doubtful (Clean code, TDD, BDD, DDD, DDD, SOLID)
  • You are comfortable working both in a team and also working independently to ensure goals are achieved
  • You have an ability to foresee where your interfaces may need to be altered to keep in line with the company strategy
  • You want to join a challenging technical environment : Typescript, Vue3,GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, Django, Golang , Nuxt, ViteJS,  Algolia, Datadog, Playright , Nginx etc..


  • Bonus Skills :
  • You have experience on Single Page Application served in Server Side Rendering such as Nuxt/Next ;
  • You've already tried TypeScript, Flow etc...
  • Monitoring is second nature
  • Software craftsmanship & clean code are in your library

Recruitment process

  • Call with Marie, our Tech Talent Advisor for a better undersanding abour your research - 45 min
  • A Tech screening with two Frontend engineers - 45 min
  • A Kick off feature exercice with two Frontend Engineers - 60 min
  • Tech leadership Interview with two persons from the BoT team - 45 min
  • Coffee chat with Hyacinthe, your future manager - 45 min
  • Back Market values Interview with C-level - 45 min

* 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.