Associate Engineer in London

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.

Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life.

Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy and continues to operate as a standalone company.

We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status.

Job Description:

Depop is looking for an Associate Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently in the Search Retrieval team. Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional team in partnership with mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists and other Backend 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.
• Embrace agile methodologies.
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc.
• Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code.
• You’ll own code, workflows and data, through their entire lifecycle.
• Documenting any feature development.

Requirements:

• A strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and able to respond to change or uncertainty with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
• Desire to work on a user-impacting product team and playing an integral role in improving how we help users find products they will love.
• You have a passion for learning new things and growing your skills within a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala).
• You have had some experience using version control such as Git, or similar.

What you’ll learn:

• Python/Scala.
• Scalable systems design within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS).
• Practising a product-oriented mindset with a focus on solving real business problems.
• Software engineering best practices, such as testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, technical documentation authoring, observability and iterative development using A/B testing.
• You’ll upskill in the Search domain – working closely with product, data scientists and machine learning scientists you will develop a good grasp of the inner workings of search engines and machine learning driven information retrieval systems.

Additional Information:

• Health + Mental Wellbeing: PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa, subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space.
• 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, fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop.
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options.
• 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.
• 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.