Data Platform Engineer

Company Description
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.
The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.
Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure team. You will play a key role in building and enhancing our data platform to support analytics, machine learning, marketing, and other critical functions.

We’re building scalable and robust systems to harvest, process and analyse the vast data within our tech ecosystem. With an increasing demand to service other areas of the business, and ultimately our users, you’ll be at the forefront of pioneering Data-as-a-Service.

Want to find out more about Depop & our Engineering team? Visit our blog where we write about technology, people and smart engineering right here - https://engineering.depop.com/
 

Responsibilities:
 

You will collaborate with teams across Depop, including Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech, and Data Engineering, to address our growing information needs and complex business challenges. Your role will involve building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices, as well as managing our data transformation and overseeing our Datalake.

• Owning initiatives for our Data Platform - working closely with our data scientists, analysts, analytics engineers and other engineers to support their deployment speed and productivity needs with self-serve data transformation and processing tools.

• End-to-end delivery of your team’s projects; from scoping and translating business requirements into plans, to design, implementation and maintenance, whilst coordinating with other teams (technical and non-technical users).

• Proactively identify ways to improve data processes, discovery and ownership, navigating complex challenges as our data grows and becomes an integral piece of our business and product operations.

• Embrace agile methodologies 

• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc. 

• Engage in health and performance improvements of our data platform and work towards promoting company-wide best practices to allow for their scalable growth by striving for automation, writing clear documentation, tutorials and hosting training sessions.

• Hold high standards for operational excellence; from running your own services to testing, monitoring, maintenance and reacting to production issues.

• Adding to a strong engineering culture, orientated on technical innovation, and professional development.

Requirements:

• Experience with a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala).

• Proficient with Software engineering best practices, such as testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, automation-first mindset.

• Strong data domain background - have worked closely to enable advanced data users; data scientists, analysts or analytics engineers and have a good grasp of their needs and how they operate.

• Passionate about working on a self-service data platform and playing an integral role in designing and creating tools to increase user productivity and velocity across our data organisation. 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and able to respond to change or uncertainty with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.

• A strong sense of ownership, autonomy and a highly organised nature.

• You have a passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working on Datalake ingestion platforms

• Experience managing and integrating tools such as Airflow, Databricks, dbt or similar.

• Knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP).

• Good understanding of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi.

• Previous experience working with Spark.

• Experience working with containerisation technologies - Docker, Kubernetes.

• DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), IaC (Terraform), observability, and technical documentation authoring. 

• Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka

• An understanding of modern data-warehouses (such as BigQuery, Snowflake), data modelling best practices and data pipelines optimization - query performance and monitoring.

• Shell scripting and related tooling.

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 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
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.