Backend engineer in customer support

Depop; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare access (PMI)

Cycle to Work

Pension matching

Life Insurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

Hybrid working (MyMode)

Job summary

Depop ищет опытного бэкенд-инженера для работы над сервисами, отвечающими за споры, возвраты, автоматическое аннулирование и поддержку. Вы будете развивать API и интеграции, работать с командами CX, Payments и Shipping, обеспечивать надёжность и мониторинг.

Вы будете работать в экспериментальной команде, проводить A/B тесты, управлять выпуском через feature flags и участвовать в код-ревью и инцидент-разборе. Редко, но важно — держать пользователей на первом месте и строить масштабируемые решения.

Qualifications

• Опыт разработки бэкенд-сервисов в продакшене.
• Опыт создания безопасных и надёжных API с аутентификацией и повторными попытками.
• Развитые тестовые практики на уровне unit и интеграции.
• Знание событийно-ориентированных или асинхронных систем (очереди).

Responsibilities

• Разработка и эволюция бэкенд-сервисов и API, связанных с спорами, возвратами и поддержкой.
• Интеграции, позволяющие AI-поддержке работать с заказами, возвратами и доставкой.
• Сотрудничество с CX Operations, Payment и Shipping для кросс-функциональных задач.
• Проектирование решений и участие в код-ревью, ретро и пост-инцидент-обзорах.
• Поддержание здоровья сервисов: мониторинг, алерты, on-call, тех.долг.

Skills

Backend engineering

Scala

Java

Kotlin

Python

APIs

Relational databases

CI/CD

Monitoring/On-call

Testing (unit/integration)

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Описание

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.

Задачи

• Build and evolve the backend services and APIs behind disputes, returns, auto-cancellation and support automation, from design through to production
• Build and test the integrations that let our AI support look up and act on orders, refunds and shipping
• Work with CX Operations to decide where automation should act on its own and when it should hand off to a person
• Design solutions ahead of delivery for small-to-medium problems, and contribute to the design of larger pieces of work in the team
• Own the health of the services you work on: monitoring, alerting, on-call, fixing what breaks and paying down tech debt
• Work in an experiment-led squad: define hypotheses and success metrics, run A/B tests and ship behind feature flags
• Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science and CX Operations, and with partner teams such as Payments and Shipping when work crosses boundaries
• Take part in code reviews, retros and post-incident reviews, and help teammates get unblocked

Требования

• Solid backend engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production services, mostly on your own
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Scala, Java, Kotlin or Python, and willingness to pick up others (most of our services are Scala)
• Experience building secure, reliable APIs used by external systems, including authentication, error handling and safe retries
• Experience with relational databases and data modelling
• Understanding of event-driven or asynchronous systems (queues, scheduled jobs, workflows)
• Good testing habits at unit and integration level
• Experience with CI/CD and production monitoring, and taking part in on-call
• You’ll often own problems end to end, in an area where AI tools keep changing, so you’re comfortable setting your own direction and working things out.
• You measure your work by whether it resolves customer issues, using data to check what’s working and what isn’t
• You explain technical trade-offs in plain terms, share context openly and ask questions when things are unclear
• Будет плюсом: Customer support platforms such as Zendesk, including their apps, APIs or workflows; AI support agents or chatbots: configuring their workflows, or connecting them to backend systems through APIs, tools or function calling; Payments, orders, refunds or shipping domains; Marketplace or e-commerce experience; Running experiments and feature flags with tools such as Optimizely; Kafka or other message brokers, workflow engines, Docker and Kubernetes, AWS and infrastructure-as-code

Условия

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
• Learning budget
• Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources
• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva
• In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!