Backend Engineer

DEPOP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading eCommerce platform in Greater London is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join on a permanent basis. You will work in a cross-functional team and contribute to the development of high-quality solutions utilized by over a million active users. The ideal candidate should have experience in Scala, Java, or Python and be proficient with databases like PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. This role offers competitive benefits including mental wellbeing support, flexible working options, and a generous leave policy.

Benefits

Health and Mental Wellbeing support

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Life Insurance

Pension matching

Qualifications

• Capability to write high-quality code in Scala, Java, or Python.
• Experience building scalable web applications serving high volumes.
• Ability to proactively solve complex problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Work in cross-functional teams to design solutions.
• Produce high-quality, well-structured code for active daily users.
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

Distributed datastores

Message queues

RDBMS

DevOps culture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Job Description

Depop is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.

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, 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

• Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or Java or 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 haves

• Experience with Scala or Java or Python
• Experience working with Frontend Engineers (Web/Mobile)
• Proficient in testing solutions at different levels -unit, integration, etc-
• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena

Nice to haves

• Experience with eCommerce
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with event‑driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform

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 annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days 1 company‑wide day off per quarter Impact hours: Up to 2 days 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 dependant All offices are dog‑friendly Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries 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 Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees 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. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!