Senior Backend Software Engineer – 12-month FTC

🕒 July 15

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Depop

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201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

👗 Fashion

🌍 Social Impact

eCommerce • Fashion • Social Impact

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. Together with its community of approximately 35 million registered users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, Depop also has offices in New York and Manchester, employing around 400 individuals. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy, continuing to operate as a standalone company.

📋 Description

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, and other backend teams to understand problems and design effective solutions. • Produce high-quality code that is well-structured, reliable, maintainable, and simple to understand, supporting systems used by millions of Depop users. • Take ownership of platform and product development, from technical discovery and problem definition through to the breakdown of work and implementation. • Contribute to high-level architectural thinking, helping to set the long-term technical direction for Depop’s core application and associated platform services. • Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and operational safety of critical backend systems. • Work on foundational platform capabilities, including core backend systems, service-to-service communication, authentication, infrastructure architecture, messaging, database scalability, deployment tooling, and internal engineering enablement. • Help evolve Depop’s core application so it remains safe, performant, and fit for future product and engineering needs. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders across engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure, translating technical complexity into shared understanding and actionable plans. • Support applications end to end, including production incident management, debugging, monitoring, and continuous improvement. • Embrace agile methodologies, user-centred thinking, and a pragmatic approach to solving real business and engineering problems. • Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by participating in blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, engineering guild sessions, and technical strategy discussions. • Collaborate daily with fellow engineers in a cross-functional environment to solve complex problems and write high-quality code. • Mentor and support the growth of colleagues, identifying opportunities to share knowledge and strengthen team skill sets. • Own your code, workflows, services, and data through their entire lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• Solid software engineering experience, with strong evidence of the ability to learn and work effectively in the team’s Scala and Python stack. • A strong backend engineering background, including experience designing, building, testing, and operating production services. • Willingness to work across multiple paradigms and languages, including backend, platform, and data-oriented work. • Strong technical and non-technical communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to different audiences. • Proficiency in testing solutions at different levels, including unit and integration testing. • Experience with relational or non-relational databases. • Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration technologies. • Experience working on production systems where reliability, scalability, and maintainability are critical. • Ability to proactively identify and solve complex technical problems independently, while knowing when to seek guidance or collaborate with peers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days • 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 • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave • Development discussions to support continuous learning and professional growth. • Upskilling our employees with company wide training workshops, materials and resources • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary) • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva