Senior Engineering Manager

We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new.

Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.

Are you ready to join us?

Our Cloud Infrastructure team (part of our CloudOPS group, working alongside Performance optimisation and developer experience teams) empowers Back Market engineers with reliable and sustainable infrastructure services across Europe, the US, and APAC region.
We’re currently searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and mentor this talented infrastructure team. You'll report to the previous manager, who is taking on CloudOPS scope. This is a great opportunity to step into an established role, supporting an group of 8 experienced engineers, who are based in Paris, Barcelona, and remotely in France.

What you'll be doing :

• Lead, mentor, and empower a highly skilled cloud infrastructure team of 8 engineers, fostering a culture of trust, autonomy, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate closely with your colleagues in our CloudOps Group, including SRE and Engineering Productivity teams, partnering actively with Staff Engineers and stakeholders across Back Market to build relevant, adopted infrastructure services
• Handle operational responsibilities gracefully: coordinating incidents, maintaining calm, and managing an effective and robust on-call rotation
• Treat infrastructure as a product, developing clear metrics-driven approaches to measuring service usage and satisfaction. Examples of our tailored internal services include:Custom Kubernetes resources for provisioning Buckets, Key-Value stores, databases, and protected public endpoints or secure privilege-escalation tooling to support engineers during on-call incidents
• Prioritize and evolve your team’s roadmap iteratively, based on feedback, direct observations, and clear adoption metrics. The key success will be the balance between managing operations and the platform we build
• Take ownership of cost-efficiency and sustainability initiatives within infrastructure, actively reducing Back Market’s engineering costs and carbon footprint
• Embrace iteration and experimentation, supporting your team in rapidly learning from both successes and failures
• Help the team, the platform, and the technical organization to grow and evolve on our existing toolset built around Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes (GKE), Cloudflare, Terraform, Crossplane, Backstage, custom CLI, etc

We should meet if :

• You bring proven experience managing infrastructure/platform engineering teams in an international technology-driven environment
• You create a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported to do their best work
• You have a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure tooling, especially Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, and ideally Crossplane
• You understand infrastructure delivery as products, measuring success through adoption, clear metrics, and satisfaction—not merely as technical output.
• You feel strongly about cost efficiency, sustainability, and actively reducing environmental footprint from your team's decisions.
• You’re comfortable coordinating incident responses, handling complex operational environments, dynamic backlogs, and on-call rotations.
• You are pragmatic and data-driven.
• You prioritize people and relationships, showing servant leadership qualities, empathy, and excellent coaching and communication skills.
• You’re fluent and comfortable working professionally in English

Bonus points

• Familiarity or experience with Golang (this is a plus but not mandatory
• .Experience working closely with Performance optimization and developer experience
• .Previous use of or exposure to engineer-focused developer portals such as Backstage
• Understanding of regulatory or compliance considerations (like GDPR, PCI-DSS, ISO27001, etc.)

Why now is a particularly exciting time to join Back Market:

• Global reach: Work with teams distributed across the EU, US, and APAC
• Talented colleagues: Lead an experienced infrastructure team as part of our wider collaborative CloudOPS group
• • ️ True sustainability focus: Directly improve engineering cost-efficiency and actively contribute to reducing our carbon footprint
• Clear data-driven impact: See the direct impact and adoption of your team’s services through measurable results
• Exciting growth: Join at a thrilling moment as our current EM moves upwards internally, stepping into a mature and impactful role

Recruitment process

• Intro call with one of our Talent Acquisition partners - 45 min
• Leadership principles interview with Romain and Sami - 60 min
• Q&A about Infrastructure with 2 DevOps engineer - 45 min
• Technical assessment - 45 min
• Stakeholders interview with Guillaume and Alex - 60 min
• Cultural fit with Paul, VP of Platform - 45 min

Are you hesitating to apply because you don't tick all the boxes? Apply anyway

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌

At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2).

No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like:

• A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.
• Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days.
• Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.

At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.

We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.