Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 May 28

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 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 Engineering Managers, Product Managers, 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 with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code • Mentor and coach your colleagues • Be responsible for your code, workflows and, data through their entire lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• Solid software engineering experience - you can provide evidence that you can learn our Scala and Python stack effectively. • Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB • Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka) • Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second • 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 • Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python. • Strong technical and non-technical communication skills • Proficient in testing solutions at different levels — unit and integration • Experience with Kubernetes or similar

🏖️ 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 • 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.