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.
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Job Description
Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.
Within this role, you'll be working in a product engineering team developing the services used for interaction between our customers and Depop. As a member of this cross functional team, you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to improve ease of access to support and efficient issue resolution for our customers.
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions
Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M+ active daily users
Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation
End-to-end application support, including production incident management
Embrace agile methodologies and user-centred thinking
Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions
Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code
Mentor and coach your colleagues
Qualifications:
Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or be interested in learning a functional language
Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres
Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second
Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.
Must haves:
Experience with Scala
Willing to work in Python and Scala codebases
Proficient in testing solutions at different levels - unit and integration -
Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Nice to haves:
Experience with Java
Experience with Play framework
Experience with web frameworks, or web development
Experience with eCommerce
Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
Additional Information
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
Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.
Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!
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.
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