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Associate Machine Learning Scientist page is loaded Associate Machine Learning Scientist Apply remote type Partially Remote locations London, UK time type Full time posted on Posted 6 Days Ago job requisition id JR4784 Company Description Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy.Find out more at Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they're from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We're continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have. If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to . For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners. The Role: Depop is looking for a dedicated Associate Machine Learning Scientist to join one of our teams. You will work alongside a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Engineers, Analysts and other Machine Learning Scientist, playing a key role in building machine learning models. Responsibilities: Research, design, and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems within the pricing and product matching space Understand requirements from various stakeholders across the business and design machine learning solutions to solve applied business problems Design and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development Keep up to date with applied research, contribute to knowledge sharing and apply new techniques for prediction, information retrieval, text and image processing, causal inference, and optimisation Participate in team ceremonies (e.g. following the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, planning and product roadmapping) Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences Skills and Experience: Experience developing ML models to solve real-world problems, experience working as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Scientist Proficiency in Python Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders Passion for learning new skills and staying up to date with applied ML developments Bonus Points: Experience with pricing models, causal inference, or revenue optimisation Experience with NLP, image processing, information retrieval, and deep learning models Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests Experience with Databricks and PySpark Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure) Additional Information Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days 1 company-wide day off per quarter Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love. Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options role dependant All offices are dog-friendly Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave Learn + Grow: Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary) Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings Depop Extras: Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards! About Us Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion, that's kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. Keep up to date Want to learn more about life at Depop? We share life at Depop updates on our LinkedIn page, and you can also keep an eye on all our job opportunities on our careers page.

Senior Finance Business Partner - FP&A and Engineering Senior Finance Business Partner - FP&A and Engineering Apply remote type Partially Remote locations London, UK time type Full time posted on Posted 6 Days Ago job requisition id JR4319 Company Description Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at . Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they're from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. Role Overview: As a key member of Depop's Strategic Finance team, you'll report to the Head of Strategic Finance and work closely with a dynamic team. You'll drive financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, ensuring decisions are data-driven and aligned with business goals. Your focus will be on budgeting, performance analysis, and strengthening cross-functional collaboration to support Depop's growth. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Planning: Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial strategic planning processes. Develop financial models, including profitability analysis, long-term modelling and scenario planning. Establish a strong investment governance framework to guide company-wide decisions. Business Partnering: Serve as a strategic finance partner to the engineering leadership team, providing insightful financial analysis to support both operational and strategic decisions. Act as the primary contact within the finance team for financial queries, aligning planning with business objectives. Performance Management & Communication: Oversee Depop's margin performance, ensuring that KPIs are defined and tracked in alignment with cross-functional business goals. Conduct variance analysis, recommending corrective actions when necessary. Prepare impactful communication materials that help the company balance short-term performance goals with long-term ambitions. Financial Analysis, Forecasting & Investment Strategy: Deliver comprehensive financial analysis, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities to senior management. Lead forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business teams. Update and maintain financial models for planning and forecasting. Projects & Initiatives: Contribute to FP&A transformation projects to enhance reporting capabilities. Benchmark financial metrics and track industry standards to ensure competitiveness. Requirements: CIMA/ACA qualified Experience in FP&A or Strategic Finance, ideally within an e-commerce, marketplace, or scale-up environment. Experience in financial modeling, forecasting, and business partnering. Ability to design complex models that inform strategic decision-making. Ability to develop and implement financial strategies. Highly analytical with strong data interpretation skills and proficiency with data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Looker, SQL). Ability to work cross-functionally across a broad range of stakeholders, including senior executives. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present financial insights clearly and influence decisions. Strong problem-solving skills. Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously. Familiarity with financial software, business intelligence tools, and ERP systems (e.g., Planful, Looker, SQL is a bonus).

Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in Manchester, New York and Australia with approximately 400 employees. We have more than 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. In the UK, 1 in 3 Gen Z/Millennials are registered and in the US we have grown 300% over two years. We are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users. Depop exists to build the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion. We are a community-powered fashion ecosystem that's kinder to the planet and kinder to people. We give our audience something they can't get anywhere else - unique fashion, with amazing people and the chance to create a better future by showing up as their full selves, at full volume. We operate on three pillars: Community: Our buyers, sellers and employees are inclusive, diverse and accessible. We are committed to empowering diversity within the fashion community. Entrepreneurship: We support our community and help them build their business with Depop. We thrive on supporting innovation by shaping an environment where creators, makers or hustlers can thrive. Sustainability: Depop helps extend the life of garments and reduce waste, we care about the world and want to make a positive change within the fashion industry. Depop is a rapidly scaling business and we're on the hunt for a Software Engineer to join our cross functional engineering teams. Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? Take a look at our blog ! We write about technology, people and smart engineering. About the role: We're currently hiring for the Software Engineer for one of our cross-functional product teams. You'll be directly contributing to the success of our users, through regularly delivering impactful projects with your team. You'll be engaged in your team challenges, opportunities and will actively participate in scorpion of team work. Responsibilities: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Front-End and other Backend Developers to understand problems and to design solutions Produce high quality code which is well-structured and simple to understand. Embrace Agile methodologies Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews and hack days Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow developers to solve problems and write code You'll independently own an entire lifecycle of medium projects of moderate complexity About you: You have experience in JVM languages. We use Scala, so if you are interested in the language or have prior experience, it's an added bonus You proactively and independently find and solve problems of moderate complexity, but you are not afraid to proactively seek guidance or help from your peers You have experience working with distributed systems You consistently and thoroughly test written code and are comfortable diagnosing and solving problems in your area of expertise You care about code quality, maintainability, scalability and security of the software you write You work with your team to seek opportunities for improvements in the ways of working Bonus if you: Have experience with the Play framework Worked with RDBMS, ideally Postgres, or NoSQL, ideally DynamoDB Have experience with event driven architectures, preferably using Kafka Used production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform Have experience building scalable web applications Contributed to open-source libraries or writing Tech blog posts - Depop offers the opportunity to work in one of the UK's fastest-growing scale-ups, with a vibrant and diverse group of people, building a product we all deeply care about, in addition to: Learn and Grow: We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to up-skill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask! Wellbeing: We care about wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eye-care vouchers and a discounted gym membership. Mental Health: Mental health is a top priority for Depop. We offer subsidised counselling appointments through SelfSpace, have mental health first aiders and also run yoga, meditation and more. Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism, and sabbaticals for our long-serving employees. Family life: We offer flexible working (based on your team), generous parental leave policies, and, all of our offices are dog-friendly! Financial: We match up to 6% on your pension and offer discounts through BenefitHub. Fun: We love to celebrate our successes at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Talent Partner Phone Interview - 30 min Hiring Manager Interview - 45 min Technical Interview - 2 hours Final Interview - 30 min Java, Scala, Kotlin, PythonScala, Java, Kotlin, Play, AWS, Terraform, Kafka, Python, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB

Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in Manchester, New York and Australia. We have more than 25 million registered users in 180+ countries. In the UK, 1 in 3 Gen Z/Millennials are registered and in the US we have grown 300% over two years. We are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users.Depop exists to build the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion. We are a community-powered fashion ecosystem that's kinder to the planet and kinder to people. We give our audience something they can't get anywhere else - unique fashion, with amazing people and the chance to create a better future by showing up as their full selves, at full volume.We operate on three pillars: Community: Our buyers, sellers and employees are inclusive, diverse and accessible. We are committed to empowering diversity within the fashion community. Entrepreneurship: We support our community and help them build their business with Depop. We thrive on supporting innovation by shaping an environment where creators, makers or hustlers can thrive. Sustainability: Depop helps extend the life of garments and reduce waste, we care about the world and want to make a positive change within the fashion industry. About the role: We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to be based at our London HQ, who has a passion for automation testing and building quality products. As our product and customer base grows, you will be supporting us on our path towards achieving more frequent releases, increasing stability and reducing lead time. Responsibilities: Understanding how the Depop website functions, the flow of code and how it interacts with different components Understanding user expectations, and product objectives to create and execute test cases, i.e. become an SME of web area Help the team during grooming sessions to identify testing scenarios Coaching team members to make them self sustainable in testing happy paths Setting up, maintaining, and performing Web test automation frameworks, as well as building test scenarios and acceptance tests with focus on risk-based testing whenever Mentoring and coaching Depop's QA Engineers in web automation testing Investigating user problems referred to you by the Product teams, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports Working with Platform teams, resolving build pipeline issues and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs Constantly looking for ways to expand and improve on our current automation framework and workflows Supporting the final quality of production release You are someone who: Loves working in an Agile, collaborative and dynamic environment Values human interaction and face to face communication Wants to make an impact every single day Values pyramids over ice-cream cones Despises flaky tests Knows what constitutes useful automation, and how to write it Wants to innovate in the technical space, and tells the world about it Is not afraid to experiment with new technologies and is keen to explore Requirements : Hands-on experience with Web automated testing tools and frameworks Proficient in JavaScript (or similar OOPs languages) Knowledge of multiple testing frameworks and methodologies Proven working experience in software development following Agile methodologies Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, knowledge of Quality Assistance would be an added advantage Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive acceptance criteria and test cases Experience with test management tools in JIRA (Zephyr or X-ray management is advantageous) Desirable : BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject preferred Strong knowledge with API testing Experience with native mobile applications testing Experience with performance and security testing - Depop offers the opportunity to work in one of the UK's fastest-growing scale-ups, with a vibrant and diverse group of people, building a product we all deeply care about, in addition to: Learn and Grow: We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to up-skill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask! Wellbeing: We care about wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eye-care vouchers and a discounted gym membership. Mental Health: Mental health is a top priority for Depop. We offer subsidised counselling appointments through SelfSpace, have mental health first aiders and also run yoga, meditation and more. Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism, and sabbaticals for our long-serving employees. Family life: We offer flexible working (based on your team), generous parental leave policies, and, all of our offices are dog-friendly! Financial: We match up to 6% on your pension and offer discounts through BenefitHub. Fun: We love to celebrate our successes at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Talent Partner Phone Interview - 30 min Hiring Manager Interview - 45 min Take Home Task Technical Interview - 1 hour Final Interview - 30 min JavaScriptJavaScript

Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in Manchester, New York, Los Angeles and Australia. We have almost 20 million registered users in 147 countries. In the UK, 1 in 3 Gen Z/Millennials are registered and in the US we have grown 300% over two years. We are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users. Our mission is to empower the next generation to transform fashion, and our team of nearly 200 people are dedicated to serving the needs of our global community. We operate on three pillars: Community : Our buyers, sellers and employees are inclusive, diverse and accessible. We are committed to empowering diversity within the fashion community. Entrepreneurship : We support our community and help them build their business with Depop. We thrive on supporting innovation by shaping an environment where creators, makers or hustlers can thrive. Sustainability : Depop helps extend the life of garments and reduce waste, we care about the world and want to make a positive change within the fashion industry. Responsibilities: Driving the roadmap from a technical perspective, collaborating closely with Product, and translating ideas to code Helping your team design systems that can keep up with Depop's growth Growing your team's sense of ownership; from running their own services to monitoring, maintenance and reacting to production issues Ensuring timely delivery of your teams' projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Depop's success Supporting a strong engineering culture, orientated on technical innovation, and professional development Ensuring your team follows our engineering practices, by leading from the front Requirements: Technical: Experience building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users You have experience of building streaming and/or batch-based systems supporting data integrations to third-party platforms (e.g. using Kafka, Airflow, RMQ, etc.) Expert knowledge with a high-level programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) Strong knowledge of systems design, within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP) Non-technical: Experience working in a B2C product-based technical environment Successful end-to-end delivery of your team's projects; from scoping and translating business requirements into plans, to design, implementation and maintenance, whilst coordinating with other teams (and engineers). Good people management and mentoring experience; we want you to help shape and develop our people You're experienced in improving your team's way of working (e.g. testing, deployment, delivery) Reinforce the 'you build it, you ship it' mentality to your teams working methodology, ultimately, owning the underlying infrastructure Exemplary communication skills, especially in dealing with multiple stakeholders - Depop offers the opportunity to work in one of the UK's fastest-growing scale-ups, with a vibrant and diverse group of people, building a product we all deeply care about, in addition to: Learn and Grow: We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to up-skill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask! Wellbeing: We care about wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eye-care vouchers and a discounted gym membership. Mental Health: Mental health is a top priority for Depop. We offer subsidised counselling appointments through SelfSpace, have mental health first aiders and also run yoga, meditation and more. Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism, and sabbaticals for our long-serving employees. Family life: We offer flexible working (based on your team), generous parental leave policies, and, all of our offices are dog-friendly! Financial: We match up to 6% on your pension and offer discounts through BenefitHub. Fun: We love to celebrate our successes at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. TP - 30min call HM - 30min call 60min - F2F Technical Paired programming 60min - Whiteboard session 30min - Depop DNA AWSScala, Kotlin, Python