Jobs at Depop

Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting disputes, returns, refunds, auto-cancellation, and AI-driven customer support. Develop integrations with order, payment, shipping, and support systems; design reliable, secure, event-driven solutions; and own monitoring, on-call, testing, deployments, and technical debt. Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, Payments, Shipping, and CX Operations while running experiments and feature-flagged releases to improve customer issue resolution.

Own data science and analytics for the Shipping team, analyzing buyer and seller behavior, delivery performance, carrier economics, and product outcomes. Design and evaluate A/B tests, build dashboards and scalable datasets, debug data issues, and provide strategic recommendations. Partner with product, operations, engineering, platform, and machine learning teams to improve shipping strategy, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.

Build and maintain iOS payment experiences for wallet balances, checkout, withdrawals, refunds, seller onboarding, and tax capture. Contribute to migrating payment surfaces from UIKit to SwiftUI, write automated tests, handle complex state and edge cases, and own features end to end. Collaborate with backend engineering, product, design, and senior engineers while supporting globally compliant marketplace payment flows.

Lead go-to-market strategy for new Depop products and features, including customer research, competitive analysis, positioning, messaging, campaigns, and experimentation. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Research, Insights, CX, CRM, Communications, and Marketing teams to inform roadmaps, improve customer sentiment, and ensure consistent product messaging across channels.

Depop is hiring a Technical Programme Manager to support technical programs within its circular fashion marketplace. The provided description does not include specific responsibilities, qualifications, technologies, salary, travel requirements, or clearance requirements. Depop offers hybrid-working options, healthcare benefits, parental leave, development support, pension matching, and other employee benefits.

Lead complex, cross-functional technical programmes across Depop and eBay, managing dependencies, risks, stakeholder alignment, reporting, planning, and decision-making. Improve operating systems and delivery practices, use AI to reduce operational friction, coach teams, mentor peers, and communicate effectively with senior leadership. The role requires strong technical and product literacy, strategic thinking, facilitation, influencing, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments.

Leads strategic analysis, company-level performance reporting, and topline GMV forecasting for Depop. Partners with Strategy, Strategic Finance, and executive stakeholders to answer ambiguous business questions, identify growth opportunities, explain performance deviations, and support strategic decisions. The role requires independent analytical judgment, strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, and management of one direct report.

Manage cloud financial operations across AWS, Databricks, and Datadog, optimizing cloud spend and driving cost-saving initiatives. Partner with Engineering, Finance, Legal, Vendor Management, and eBay to align cloud usage with business objectives and financial forecasts. Provide actionable insights, support strategic growth, and improve cost visibility in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Build and maintain Kafka Connect services and streaming data pipelines for Depop’s data platform. Extend the bronze streaming layer, implement data contracts and freshness checks, develop quarantine and alerting systems, support event onboarding and troubleshooting, document technical decisions, and collaborate with senior engineers and teams across data infrastructure, ML, and insights.

Lead the research, design, productionization, and scaling of machine learning models for pricing and shipping optimization. Own high-impact projects, conduct rigorous experiments, apply causal inference and optimization techniques, collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, communicate findings, and mentor junior team members.

Build, maintain, scale, and improve Depop’s search and recommendation systems serving over one million daily users. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, mobile, web, and backend engineers to design solutions, write high-quality code, manage workflows and data throughout their lifecycle, and document features. The role includes working with distributed systems, retrieval technologies, databases, message queues, ML-driven systems, testing, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement processes.

Own end-to-end machine learning systems for Depop’s Trust Detection team, addressing phishing, counterfeit goods, fraud, abuse, and prohibited content. Responsibilities include problem framing, data strategy, deep learning and LLM development, multimodal modeling, deployment, experimentation, evaluation, and production iteration. The role partners with Trust, Policy, and Product teams to build scalable, robust systems in ambiguous and adversarial environments and communicate technical trade-offs and impact.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll lead the technical vision for Payments and Fulfilment systems, mentor engineers, and ensure scalability and security.

The Staff Backend Engineer will lead the technical vision for Depop's data platform, focusing on data ingestion, scalability, observability, and architecting data solutions while mentoring team members.

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer at Depop, you'll architect and build data platforms, working with various teams to enhance data capabilities, support complex business problems, and promote self-service tools while ensuring operational excellence and effective stakeholder collaboration.

Lead design, deployment, and iteration of large-scale ranking models (recommendations and search). Collaborate cross-functionally, manage end-to-end ML lifecycle, drive research and innovation, and mentor team members while delivering measurable product outcomes.

The Finance Integration Lead will manage finance systems integration, lead process design, ensure communication, and manage risks while supporting the transition to new ERP systems.

Join the Platform Core team to design, operate, and automate Depop's AWS-based infrastructure. Build and maintain Terraform/IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Cloudflare edge configurations, and platform tooling using Python/Golang. Mentor engineers, participate on-call, improve security posture, and drive platform reliability and developer self-service.

Depop seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Ranking team to develop and maintain machine learning systems for personalized rankings. Responsibilities include designing training pipelines, collaborating with ML scientists, and optimizing model serving systems.

Lead a new Pricing - Buyer Value engineering squad (iOS + backend), own delivery, team health, and cross-functional alignment. Hire and line-manage 4–6 engineers, partner with Product, Design, ML and Analytics, drive experimentation and data-driven decisions, establish ways of working, and foster inclusive culture, coaching, and career growth.