Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Greater London

Job Description

Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.

Within this role, you'll be working in a product engineering team developing the services used for interaction between our customers and Depop. As a member of this cross functional team, you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to improve ease of access to support and efficient issue resolution for our customers.

Responsibilities:

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

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, 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

Qualifications:

• Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or be interested in learning a functional language
• Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres
• Distributed data stores (e.g. Dynamo
  
  DB)
• Message queues: (e.g. Rabbit
  
  MQ / Apache Kafka)
• Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second
• Dev Ops 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 Scala
• Willing to work in Python and Scala codebases
• Proficient in testing solutions at different levels - unit and integration -
• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB, AWS Athena
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Java
• Experience with Play framework
• Experience with web frameworks, or web development
• Experience with eCommerce
• Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using Rabbit
  
  MQ 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 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!#J-18808-Ljbffr