Senior Backend Software Engineer
DEPOP
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
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Within this role, you'll be working with 5+ backend engineers, EM and Product Manager to drive the team to success. The team is backend focussed and manages various backend systems at the core of Depop.
Responsibilities
Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and various 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
Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation
End-to-end application support, including production incident management
Embrace agile methodologies and user‑centred thinking
Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post‑mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions.
Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross‑functional environment to solve problems and write code
Mentor and coach your colleagues
Own your code, workflows and data through their entire lifecycle
The language you use should be a tool to solve a problem and not fixate on a specific language. We are looking for an engineer who is happy working across different tech stacks.
Desired Experience
Writing high quality code in Scala, Java, or another JVM language. Typescript or Python experience is also a big plus. The language you use should be a tool to solve a problem and not fixate on a specific language. We are looking for an engineer who is happy working across different tech stacks.
Relational databases, ideally Postgres
NoSql datastores (e.g. DynamoDB)
Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka)
Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s 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.
Product-oriented mindset with a focus on solving real business problems rather than over‑engineering solutions.
Experience with iterative development using A/B testing
Must Haves
Solid software engineering experience. Strong evidence that you can learn our TypeScript and Scala stack effectively.
Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python.
Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
Proficient in testing solutions at different levels - unit and integration -
Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
Experience with Kubernetes or similar
Bonus Points
Experience with Play framework
Experience with eCommerce
Experience with event‑driven architectures, preferably using Kafka
Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
Experience with Python
Experience with data engineering
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!
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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