IOS Engineer

Overview

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.

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As a Staff Engineer at Depop, you''ll be a technical leader, driving our engineering excellence and solving our most challenging problems. You''ll work in Depop’s iOS Platform team and will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and leaders in the company, making high-impact decisions that accelerate engineering efforts, define the long-term technical direction for iOS at Depop, and align with our business strategy.

Your iOS expertise will not only guide your team but also build followership across the wider engineering community, mentoring others and promoting a culture of high standards and quality.

• Contribute high-impact code and design well-documented software that boosts team productivity and ensures scalability.
• Guide technical decisions for both engineering and non-technical stakeholders, preventing costly rework.
• Act as a trusted advisor, mentoring engineers to improve their effectiveness and technical skills.
• Act as a strategic partner to engineering and product leadership, providing a strong viewpoint on the architecture and development processes needed to enable the business to move faster and build more effectively.
• Collaborate across teams and navigate sophisticated situations to foster strong partnerships.
• Proactively identify and tackle ambiguous technical problems that improve team productivity and enhance system reliability.
• Ensure platform health and implement high standards, leading swift incident resolution and minimising major incidents.
• Promote a culture of high standards and accountability, leading by example and inspiring excellence.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to modernise the iOS app and improve developer velocity, collaborating with other teams to unblock and accelerate key business goals.
• Drive technical guilds and working groups to share knowledge, build consensus, and deliver on the long-term iOS vision by bringing other engineers along on the journey.
• Leverage deep domain expertise to define and champion the long-term architectural vision for the iOS application, guiding prioritisation in line with business goals and new advancements in the iOS space.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering a long-term technical vision for complex, large-scale mobile applications.
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions and drive projects to completion.
• Experience mentoring and coaching developers at any level.
• Experience identifying and driving solutions for ambiguous and complex technical challenges at scale, demonstrating a clear "been there, done that" perspective.

• Expert Swift/iOS engineer with deep knowledge of the platform; rigorous testing with XCTest and XCUITest
• Building and maintaining modular mobile frameworks; dependency…