Description:
You will work closely with multiple product squads, other Staff and Backend engineers, and product & engineering leaders, providing deep technical expertise to ensure our Payment and Fulfilment systems are scalable, secure, observable, and fit for our future growth ambitions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior collaborators across Product, Engineering, Finance and Ops to translate strategic goals into well-architected, scalable platform capabilities.
- Drive the technical design and implementation of key Payments and Fulfilment features, providing hands-on coding and architectural leadership.
- Define and evolve the technical roadmap for our Payments and Fulfilment systems, ensuring they’re extensible for Product squads, and simple for engineers to work with.
- Champion engineering excellence, setting high technical standards and advocating for best practices in system design, maintainability, performance, and building for speed.
- Lead efforts to evangelise and generate consensus for why the technical work in this area is of high importance.
- Mentor and coach engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the teams around you and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Identify and address complex technical challenges and bottlenecks, proposing and implementing effective solutions.
Qualifications
You’ll be an excellent fit if you have:
- Experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role working across the Backend at scale, ideally in a consumer or marketplace environment.
- Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating distributed systems and platforms at scale.
- Exceptional programming skills in Scala, Java, or TypeScript, with deep cloud platform expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures using Kafka.
- A strong technical background with a track record of hands-on architecture and development of complex backend systems.
- Ability to think strategically and pragmatically: you can define long-term technical strategies and implement rapidly, bringing others along with you.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you’re comfortable influencing technical direction and aligning diverse stakeholders across the organisation.
Bonus Points If
- You’ve previous experience in Fulfilment or Payments, including integration with vendors such as Stripe, PayPal, or shipping providers.
- Prior work in fashion, marketplaces, fintech, or sustainability-driven tech.
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