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 [email protected]. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

Job 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 the 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 daily 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

• Documenting any feature development

Qualifications

• Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or Java or Python

• Distributed datastores (e.g. DynamoDB, Redshift, AWS Athena)

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

• Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second

• Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres

• 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:

• Experience with Scala or Java or Python

• Experience working with Frontend Engineers (Web/Mobile) 

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

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

Nice to haves:

• 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

Additional Information

UK Benefits

Health + Mental Wellbeing

• Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you

• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person

• Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7

• Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life Balance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days

• 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress

• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives

• We offer sabbaticals for our long-serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working. MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote.

• Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week.

• Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.

• Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year.

All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend. You can also apply to work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries).

Family Life

• Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral. Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave.

Learn and Grow

• We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)

• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

And finally, as a valued Depop employee we waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.

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!