Depop

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Depop

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

DynamoDBJavaKafkaKubernetesNoSQLPostgresPythonScalaTypeScript

About the role

  • 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 on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code
  • Mentor and coach your colleagues
  • Own 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
  • Proficient in testing solutions at different levels — unit and integration —
  • Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  • Experience with Kubernetes or similar
  • Writing high quality code in Scala, Java, or another JVM language.
  • Typescript or Python experience is also a big plus.
  • Relational databases, ideally Postgres
  • NoSql datastores (e.g. 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
Benefits
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
  • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more
  • Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
  • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings
  • Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.
  • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

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Hard skills
TypeScriptScalaPythonJavaPostgreSQLDynamoDBKubernetesKafkaCI/CDunit testing
Soft skills
technical communicationnon-technical communicationproblem-solvingmentoringcollaborationownershipcontinuous improvementuser-centered thinkingproactive learningproduct-oriented mindset