Senior Software Engineer (Go)

Location: New York, United States; hybrid work with three days per week in the NY office, including mandatory Mondays.

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year.

Company

Back Market is a global marketplace for refurbished devices focused on making technology more affordable, reliable, and environmentally sustainable.

What you will do

• Build efficient microservices powering web and mobile customer experiences.
• Design and implement scalable, performant backend services primarily in Go and additionally in Python.
• Contribute to Vue and TypeScript frontend development, API contracts, and end-to-end features.
• Own squad-level technical projects, dependencies, releases, and service quality improvements.
• Build observability using Datadog and BigQuery, monitor performance and errors, and prevent regressions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, chaos mitigation, hotfixes, root-cause analysis, code reviews, and technical knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go proficiency and proven Python experience.
• Experience with microservices, high-traffic backend services, scalable distributed systems, and regular production delivery.
• Working knowledge of Vue, React, JavaScript, or TypeScript for full-stack contributions.
• Strong SDLC, testing, observability, incident management, and on-call experience.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST, and GraphQL API design.
• Strong communication, autonomous delivery, pragmatic technical decision-making, documentation, and code review skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile “build it and run it” environment with ownership of services from development through production support.
• Collaboration with backend, frontend, iOS, SRE, CyberSec, data, product, and UX specialists.
• Hybrid schedule with two remote days per week, one remote work week per quarter, and three flex days.
• Mission-driven work focused on reducing the environmental impact of technology.
• Employee resource groups, mentorship programs, accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.

Hiring process

• HR screening, followed by backend coding and testing.
• System design and data modules.
• Tech leadership, manager, and company values interviews.