Senior Backend Software Engineer – 12-month FTC

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 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, 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