Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
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Company Description
Depop is the communitypowered 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 whollyowned subsidiary of out more at
Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome no matter who they are or where theyre 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. Were 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. Were continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.
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Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role youll be working primarily in Scala as part of a cross functional product team managing critical backend services and delivering key user functionality.
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team you can expect to:
Work closely with Engineering Managers Data Scientists Product Managers and other Front and Backend Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions.
Produce highquality code that is wellstructured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M active daily users
Endtoend application support including production incident management
Embrace agile methodologies
Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless postmortems architecture reviews etc.
Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code
Youll own your code and workflows through its entire lifecycle
Mentor less senior engineering colleagues
Qualifications
Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or be interested in learning a functional language
Experience working with RDBMS ideally Postgres
Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka)
Experience building scalable web applications serving 10000s of requests per second
DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)
Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.
Must haves:
Willing to work in Scala codebases
Proficient in testing solutions at different levels unit integration etc
Experience with relational or nonrelational databases preferably PostgreSQL DynamoDB AWS Athena
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Nice to haves:
Experience with eCommerce
Experience with eventdriven architectures preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
Experience in using production AWS infrastructure ideally with Terraform
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 companywide 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 hybridworking model with Flex Office Based and Remote options *role dependant
All offices are dogfriendly
Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
Family Life:
18 weeks of paid parental leave for fulltime 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!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
