Depop - Senior Fullstack Web Engineer at Depop

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Job Description:

About the role:

As a Senior Engineer in our Web Buyers team, you’ll play a key role leading and supporting a team of engineers to contribute to Depop’s mission and goals, helping our community of buyers on the web discover items and sellers they might love.

You'll be working in a technically innovative environment, building high-traffic and scalable systems that service 10,000s of concurrent users, mentoring and coaching other engineers, and iterating and improving your team’s work based on short feedback loops and experimentation.

As part of the team’s mission to grow our backend capabilities, you’ll be directing the technical development of engineers to work fullstack across both the front end platform and our backend infrastructure through mentoring and teaching.

You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to Depop’s wider product and engineering culture. That could be presenting in our company architecture meet-ups, or contributing to our growth framework.

Responsibilities:

Architect and implement efficient and reusable front-end systems in our web app and backend APIs that drive a complex web application in a backend-for-front end architecture
Mentoring the team to develop full stack capabilities such as databases, API design and micro services
Cultivating a strong engineering culture, orientated on technical innovation, and professional development
Contributing to the team’s technical roadmap, collaborating closely with Product
Use data to guide product and engineering decisions to focus on what matters most
Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, Software Engineers and Analysts to contribute to the team’s product roadmap
Care about what you do, Depop’s mission, the code you write, the products you ship

Requirements:

Experience designing, building and maintaining modern web apps using front end JavaScript frameworks - with a focus on performance, stability and scalability
Strong knowledge of systems design, within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, - GCP)
Strong skills with a high-level, typed programming language (e.g. Typescript, Java, Scala, Go)
Experience with relational and no-SQL databases and know when to use either
Good mentoring experience; we want you to help shape and develop our people
Experience working collaboratively as part of an agile team in a product-driven business

Desirable:

Experience with message queue frameworks such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
Experience with performance monitoring and logging, and using insights to resolve issues and improve performance
Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
Experience of CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) and embracing - DevOps with maintaining pipelines using Jenkins #LI-LR1

Company Benefits

Depop offers the opportunity to work in one of the UK's fastest-growing scale-ups, with a vibrant and diverse group of people, building a product we all deeply care about, in addition to:

Learn and Grow: We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to up-skill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask!
Wellbeing: We care about wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eye-care vouchers and a discounted gym membership.
Mental Health: Mental health is a top priority for Depop. We offer subsidised counselling appointments through SelfSpace, have mental health first aiders and also run yoga, meditation and more.
Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism, and sabbaticals for our long-serving employees.
Family life: We offer flexible working (based on your team), generous parental leave policies, and, all of our offices are dog-friendly!
Financial: We match up to 6% on your pension and offer discounts through BenefitHub.
Fun: We love to celebrate our successes at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.