At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Payments Foundations team to shape payment flows and enhance user experience.
- Company: Depop, the resale destination connecting millions globally.
- Benefits: Health benefits, flexible working, generous leave, and a learning budget.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for career growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on payment systems in a fast-growing marketplace.
- Qualifications: Solid Swift experience and familiarity with payment systems.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Depop is the resale destination for the next generation. We connect millions of buyers and sellers across 150+ countries, making it easy to buy and sell secondhand fashion. Payments is one of our biggest growth levers as we scale toward 5x GMV by 2030.
We're hiring a Senior iOS Engineer to join our new Payments Foundations team. You'll be a senior iOS voice in a small, multidisciplinary team responsible for the flows that determine whether sellers get paid, whether buyers can check out in new markets, and whether Depop meets its regulatory obligations as we scale globally.
Why this role is interesting: Depop is a dual-sided marketplace that holds money. That means you're not just building a checkout, you're working across wallet balances, re-spend, withdrawals, refunds, seller onboarding, and tax capture, each with different rules per market. You'll help shape how these payment flows are structured in a codebase that’s migrating from UIKit to SwiftUI, contributing to decisions on how that migration is approached for payments surfaces.
Broader Contributions: You'll also contribute to Depop's wider iOS architecture alongside our Core iOS team. We want senior engineers in product teams shaping platform-wide decisions.
What we're looking for:
- Solid Swift experience, including memory management, concurrency (async/await, actors), and reasoning about state in complex flows
- Experience with SwiftUI in production, or UIKit experience with an understanding of incremental migration
- Familiarity with MVVM-C or similar coordination patterns
- Experience in domains where correctness matters like payments, identity, auth, or similar
- Comfort collaborating closely with backend engineers, product managers, and designers
Nice to have:
- Experience with payment SDKs (Stripe, PayPal, or similar)
- Experience in marketplace or FinTech environments
- Familiarity with modularised iOS codebases and build-time optimisation
- Contributions to platform/core architecture beyond your immediate team
- Experience influencing technical direction in ambiguous or cross-team situations
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 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 parents: 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.
Senior Ios Engineer - Payments employer: Depop
DEPOP is an excellent employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where Senior iOS Engineers can thrive while leading architecture for impactful user experiences. Located in Greater London, employees enjoy flexible working options, comprehensive healthcare access, and generous leave policies, all of which support a healthy work-life balance. With opportunities for mentorship and professional growth, DEPOP is dedicated to empowering its team members to make meaningful contributions to the secondhand fashion marketplace.
