Senior Backend Engineer

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at www.depop.com 

Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to adjustments@depop.com. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working primarily in Scala as part of a cross functional product team, managing critical backend services and delivering key user functionality. 

Responsibilities:
 

As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and other Front and 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

• End-to-end application support, including production incident management 

• 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 your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle

• Mentor less senior engineering colleagues
   

Qualifications

• Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or be interested in learning a functional language

• Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres

• Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache 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.

Must haves:

• Willing to work in Scala codebases

• Proficient in testing solutions at different levels — unit, integration, etc

• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Nice to haves:

• Experience with eCommerce

• Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka

• Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform

Additional Information

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!