Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

Company Description

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. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it.

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 - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit www.depop.com

We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users.

AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.

If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to adjustments@depop.com.

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at www.depop.com

If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to adjustments@depop.com. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities:

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

Desired experience:

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

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 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!