Senior iOS Engineer - Payments

Company Description

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.
Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it.
Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. 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. For more information, visit www.depop.com
We aim 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.
AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.
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Role

Depop is the resale destination for the next generation. We connect millions of buyers and sellers across 150+ countries, making it easy to buy and sell secondhand fashion. Payments is one of our biggest growth levers as we scale toward 5x GMV by 2030.

We're hiring a Senior iOS Engineer to join our new Payments Foundations team. You'll be a senior iOS voice in a small, multidisciplinary team responsible for the flows that determine whether sellers get paid, whether buyers can check out in new markets, and whether Depop meets its regulatory obligations as we scale globally.
Why this role is interesting:
Depop is a dual-sided marketplace that holds money. That means you're not just building a checkout, you're working across wallet balances, re-spend, withdrawals, refunds, seller onboarding, and tax capture, each with different rules per market. You'll help shape how these payment flows are structured in a codebase that's migrating from UIKit to SwiftUI, contributing to decisions on how that migration is approached for payments surfaces.

You'll also contribute to Depop's wider iOS architecture alongside our Core iOS team. We want senior engineers in product teams shaping platform-wide decisions.

What we're looking for:

• Solid Swift experience, including memory management, concurrency (async/await, actors), and reasoning about state in complex flows

• Experience with SwiftUI in production, or UIKit experience with an understanding of incremental migration

• Familiarity with MVVM-C or similar coordination patterns

• Experience in domains where correctness matters like payments, identity, auth, or similar

• Comfort collaborating closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers

• A genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work

Nice to have:

• Experience with payment SDKs (Stripe, PayPal, or similar)

• Experience in marketplace or FinTech environments

• Familiarity with modularised iOS codebases and build-time optimisation

• Contributions to platform/core architecture beyond your immediate team

• Experience influencing technical direction in ambiguous or cross-team situations

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 of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days of 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-dependent
• All offices are dog-friendly
  

Family Life:

• For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees 
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn + Grow:

• Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
• Learning budget
• Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources

Your Future:

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva

Depop Extras:

• In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!