Description:
Depop is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.
Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional team in partnership with mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success.
Responsibilities
As a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
- Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Front-End and other 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
- 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 , code, workflows and data, through their entire lifecycle
- Documenting any feature development
Desired Experience
- Writing high quality code in Scala, Java, Kotlin or another JVM language
- Experience building scalable applications serving 10,000s of requests per second
- Relational databases, ideally Postgres
- NoSql datastores (e.g. DynamoDB)
- Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka)
- 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
- Solid software engineering experience. Strong evidence that you can learn our TypeScript and Scala stack effectively
- Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python
- Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—
- Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
Bonus Points
- Experience with eCommerce
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
- Experience with Python
- Experience with data engineering
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