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London, UK, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Company Description
Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.
Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it.
Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit www.depop.com
We aim 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.
AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.
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.
Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.
Within this role, you’ll be working with 5+ backend engineers, Engineering Managers and Product Managers to drive the team to success. The team is backend focussed and handles various backend systems at the core of Depop.
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
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
The language you use should be a tool to solve a problem and not fixate on a specific language. We are looking for an engineer who is happy working across different tech stacks.
Desired experience:
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
Must haves:
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
A genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work
Bonus points:
Experience with Play framework
Experience with eCommerce
Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using Kafka
Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
Experience with Python
Experience with data engineering
Additional Information
Health + Mental Wellbeing
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