Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

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

Within this role, you'll be working in a cross-functional Payments team in partnership with mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success., 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
• Own your code, workflows and, data through their entire lifecycle

• Writing high quality code in TypeScript, Scala, Java, Kotlin or another JVM language
• 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
• 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 Scala stack effectively. We use TypeScript and Scala.
• Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using 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 payment SDKs (Stripe, PayPal, or similar)
• Experience in marketplace or fintech environments
• 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

• Annual leave
• Sabbatical
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Paid volunteer time, * 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 of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days of 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

Family Life:

• For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn + Grow:

• Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
• Learning budget
• Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources

Your Future:

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva

Depop Extras:

• In-office Depop Shop (that's free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!