Job Description

Depop is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join us on a permanent basis. Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional Martech team in partnership with the mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams and Tech Lead to drive the team to success.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists,  Front-End 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 your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle
• Documenting any feature development

Qualifications

Key Skills and Requirements:

• Be capable to write high quality code in Scala / Java / Python  
• Distributed datastores (e.g. DynamoDB, Redshift, AWS Athena)
• Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka)
• Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second
• Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres
• 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.

Must have: 

• Experience with Scala / Java / Python
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working with Frontend Engineers (Web/Mobile) 
• Strong desire to learn Frontend technics
• Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—
• Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena

Nice to have:

• Experience with AdTech / eComm 
• Experience with full stack development (exposure to Typescript/Swift/Kotlin)
• Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
• Degree level knowledge of Computer Science or related technical field.