Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you'll be working in a backend team leading multiple services at the core of Depop's architecture. As a member of a team of backend engineers, you will collaborate with other backend teams to establish and maintain standards for accessing data on our users and products.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Data Scientists, and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and to 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 every day with fellow engineers in the multi-functional environment to solve problems and write code.
• Own your code and workflows through their entire lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Be capable of writing high-quality code in Python and ideally Scala or be interested in learning a functional language.
• Experience with distributed datastores (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Experience with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka).
• Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second.
• Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres.
• Familiarity with 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:

• Experience with Python.
• Willing to work in Python and Scala codebases.
• Proficient in testing solutions at different levels - unit, integration, etc.
• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena.
• 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:

• 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, and 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 dependent).
• 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) and 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!