Senior Backend Engineer

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

• 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 with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code
• Mentor and coach your colleagues
• Be responsible for 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.

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Solid software engineering experience - you can provide evidence that you can learn our Scala and Python stack effectively.

• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and 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:

• 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 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

Pulled from the full job description

• Sabbatical
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Paid volunteer time
• Cycle to work scheme, * 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