Senior Data Engineer

🕒 April 18

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data 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

• Define and execute the vision for Depop’s data quality, observability, and governance frameworks. • Establish data contracts between producers and consumers to ensure schema integrity and data reliability. • Develop and maintain systems that detect, alert, and resolve data quality issues with minimal latency. • Build automation and tooling to reduce MTTD (Mean Time to Detection) and MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) for data incidents. • Partner with data platform engineers to integrate observability at every layer - ingestion, transformation, and consumption. • Lead GDPR and privacy-by-design initiatives, ensuring compliance and traceability across all datasets. • Define standards for metadata management, lineage tracking, and access control. • Collaborate with analytics and product teams to ensure data definitions and quality metrics are consistent across domains. • Mentor engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of data stewardship and accountability. • Continuously improve data governance maturity through automation, documentation, and measurable quality KPIs.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer or in an equivalent technical leadership role in data quality, observability, or governance. • Deep knowledge of data observability frameworks (Monte Carlo, Soda, or equivalent) and data validation tools (Great Expectations, etc.). • Deep understanding of Data Products principles and experience applying them to improve data reliability and ownership. • Experience designing and enforcing data contracts and quality SLAs in distributed data ecosystems. • Proficiency in Python or Java, and experience building pipelines with Airflow, Spark, or Kafka. • Strong understanding of data governance principles, privacy regulations (such as the GDPR, CCPA), and secure data handling practices. • Familiarity with metadata management and data catalog tools (e.g.DataHub, Collibra, etc.). • Demonstrated success improving data reliability and observability in large-scale data platforms. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; you can bridge technical depth with operational impact.

🏖️ 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. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!