Senior iOS 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 expert Senior iOS Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the Customer Experience (CX) product engineering team developing the services used for interaction between our customers, Depop agents, and Depop. 

As a senior-level iOS engineer at Depop you’ll add new functionality as well as improve existing features through data driven A/B testing workflow and experiments. You will be working in Swift, alongside backend, other iOS engineers, using our CI pipeline with unit and integration testing built in, to iterate our native iOS application to help our millions of users to fall into the pit of success. Our small multidisciplinary product teams are supported by a much wider community of Depop iOS developers, insights teams, product managers and platform engineers. You’ll report to an engineering manager who is a member of your delivery team - their goal is to ensure you are set for career growth, engagement, and support.

We’re open for this role to be based remotely from anywhere in the UK, or on a hybrid basis within our London HQ!

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M+ active daily users

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems, design solutions, and ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and optimally. 

• Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation

• Support the team to deliver weekly features/upgrades.

• Exercise technical leadership on the features you and your team ship to the iOS app. Take ownership in monitoring and resolving issues.

• Support the A/B testing workflow and collaborate with the insights team to ensure high quality.

• Refactor existing code to use the latest developments in the iOS framework.
   

Requirements

• Commercial experience using Swift or Objective-C, with real exposure to different platforms and OS versions.

• Experience working within a Mobile Continuous Integration framework.

• Experience with Unit (XCTest) and Integration Testing.

• Experience in consuming a RESTful API.

• Prior experience mentoring your engineering peers.

• A product approach; you enjoy stepping into the shoes of your customers to understand their needs, and use data to drive your decision making.

• Desirable:

• Experience with the VIPER architecture.

• Experience with A/B testing and solving complex experiments.

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!