DATA ENGINEERING MANAGER

at  Back Market

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of more than 650, powering operations in 16 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.

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR TECH TEAM, COMPOSED TODAY OF ABOUT 300 PEOPLE, YOU CAN CONSULT:

• A video of our CTO (ex- VP of Engineering): https://urlz.fr/kyX6

• Our Career Site: https://jobs.backmarket.com/

• Some articles written by members of the BoT: https://urlz.fr/kyX8

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.

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).