Senior Full-Stack Engineer (f/m/x) - remote

Role Summary

Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 23 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV — all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company and have been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for four consecutive years.

Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.

If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here. We’re a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we’re remote-first).

For our Engineering team, we are looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer (f/m/x) with a strong background in designing and implementing scalable backend services and intuitive frontend experiences. You’ll work across our marketplace, delivering reliable, high-performance features across the stack. You’ll design and build scalable backend services in Go and contribute to modern frontend experiences using Vue, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, code quality, and long-term maintainability.

Together with you and your talent, we want to make consumption sustainable and build the leading marketplace for refurbished products in Europe. Join us on our mission!

Personal & Professional Development

• You'll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it's courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
• We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
• We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.

Flexibility

• We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
• We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
• You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops

…and much more! See https://careers.refurbed.com/ for further insights!

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in Go that power our web and mobile applications.
• Improve system performance, monitoring, and developer experience across the stack
• Drive technical design, code quality, and architectural improvements through RFCs and reviews
• Develop scalable, high-performance frontend features, while following best practices for performance, accessibility, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Build and evolve high-traffic, user-facing pages that serve millions of users, ensuring fast load times and excellent usability
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver new features end-to-end
• Implement A/B tests and rollout strategies for new features
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all user-facing APIs and systems
• Review code, mentor teammates, and contribute to technical interviews

Requirements

• Experience with Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, and event-driven architectures
• Solid understanding of API design, data modeling, and distributed systems
• Significant experience designing and implementing full stack applications
• Experience building applications with JavaScript/TypeScript, along with knowledge of modern HTML, CSS, and familiarity with frontend development practices and tools.
• You write clean, modular, and maintainable code and care about performance and reliability
• Excellent English skills+ located in one of the European time zones

Location & eligibility: This role is open to Europe-based candidates only with a valid right to work.

About the Company

Our Culture and Values

• Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
• We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
• You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
• No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!