Senior Backend Software Engineer

Depop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working with 5+ backend engineers, EM and Product Manage 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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