Senior Frontend Engineer - Design System

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 Design System team
The Design System team at Back Market is tasked with enabling our product, engineer and design teams to build consistent, high quality user experiences on our product platforms.
By coupling our respective know-how, we provide expertise on Web engineering, brand, usability and accessibility matters as part of our day-to-day. We’re responsible for maintaining and improving our web component library, its documentation and development environment, as well as the workflows and automations that allow us to keep design and front-end teams aligned and able to work together smoothly.
The role
We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Design System team composed of three frontend engineers, three product designers, a product manager, and an engineering manager.
You will contribute to the development and operations of our Design System. With the team, you will improve and automate the delivery and maintenance of our components and assets. You will heighten the usability of the Design System by iteratively improving our documentation & guidelines, and through direct support and advocacy. You will help us innovate and scale to enable Back Market to expand as fast as ever.

What you will do:

• Building, maintaining, and improving a robust design system for Back Market’s B2C & B2B touchpoints (Responsive Web, iOS, and Android), along with colleagues
• Supporting contributions on the front-end perimeter, through facilitation, support, code reviews, and developer experience improvements
• Maintaining our front-end codebase and tooling, and developing a joint vision with the Front-End Chapter on our technological choices
• Ensuring smooth delivery of our Web codebase and supporting the Front-End Chapter in planning, executing, or automating migrations
• Building and maintaining automation and other tools that allow us to operate at a larger scale (automation of tokens delivery, assets, plugins, CI/CD)
• Identifying further opportunities for the Design System to scale
• Improving our documentation platform and its content to ensure an easy understanding of the Design System and to increase its adoption
• Helping us ensure our experiences adhere to accessibility standards and other relevant practices

You're perfect for this role if:

• You are familiar with Design System challenges or you have owned or significantly contributed to a Design System
• You have solid experience in some of the following topics: Vue.js, accessibility, Web performance, SEO, SSR, DevOps ( Circle CI) , QA, code generation, code analysis
• You’re comfortable with APIs, CI environments, and cloud platforms and can build bridges between them and code repositories
• You love to coach and mentor others and to support the growth of team members whatever their seniority, but you also stay humble and ready to learn from others
• You’re aware of the importance of good communication between designers and engineers, and you can easily discuss your work with a non-technical audience
• You are inherently curious, you are idealistic but you challenge the status quo responsibly
• You can proactively advocate your impact and autonomously communicate progress, learnings, and goals to the company and beyond
• You are comfortable communicating professionally in English as we are an international team

Recruitment process:

• Phone screen with Marie, our Tech recruiter - 45 min
• Code review with our frontend team - 45 min
• Frontend technical interview focused on Design System topics -90 min
• Relationship building with your future manager, Meri - 45min
• BM values interview with our leadership team - 45min

Note: Hybrid policy -3 days / week at Barcelona office (Monday is mandatory)  


* 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 com