Backend Engineer

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🕒 February 18

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Depop

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201 - 500 employees

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.

📋 Description

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Front-End and other Backend 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 • Embrace agile methodologies • Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc. • Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code • You’ll own , code, workflows and data, through their entire lifecycle • Documenting any feature development

🎯 Requirements

• Solid software engineering experience. • Strong evidence that you can learn our TypeScript and Scala stack effectively • Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python • Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc— • Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB • Writing high quality code in Scala, Java, Kotlin or another JVM language • Experience building scalable applications serving 10,000s of requests per second • Relational databases, ideally Postgres • NoSql datastores (e.g. DynamoDB) • Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka) • DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline) • Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers. • Product-oriented mindset with a focus on solving real business problems rather than over-engineering solutions. • Experience with iterative development using A/B testing.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • 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. • 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 • Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more • Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees • 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!