Senior Software 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:

Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in a backend team managing multiple services at the core of Depop’s architecture. As a member of this team of backend engineers, you will collaborate with other backend teams to establish and maintain standards for accessing data on our users and products. You will be responsible for managing the core part of our Django application, which is central to Depop’s operations. Your work will be pivotal in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our platform. 

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Data Scientists, and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and design solutions. 

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

• End-to-end application support, including production incident management 

• Embrace agile methodologies 

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

• Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross-functional environment to solve problems and write code

• You’ll own your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle
   

Requirements:

• Proficiency in writing high-quality code in Python

• Experience with distributed datastores (e.g., DynamoDB).

• Knowledge of message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka).

• Proven experience in building scalable web applications capable of serving tens of thousands of requests per second.

• Experience working with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and AWS Athena.

• Familiarity with DevOps culture, including CI/CD pipelines.

• Ability to proactively identify and solve complex problems independently while recognising when to seek guidance from peers.

• Proficiency in testing solutions at different levels (unit, integration, etc.).

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Java or Scala

• Experience with Django framework

• Experience with eCommerce

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

• Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform

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.