Backend Developer

Backend Developer focuses on partner with stakeholders across product, data, and engineering to translate strategic goals into well-architected, scalable platform capabilities.

What the role involves

• Partner with stakeholders across Product, Data, and Engineering to translate strategic goals into well-architected, scalable platform capabilities.
• Driving the technical design and implementation of core data platform components, providing hands-on coding and architectural leadership.
• Define and evolve the technical roadmap for Depop’s modern data platform, ensuring reliable and scalable analytics.
• Champion engineering excellence, setting high technical standards and advocating for best practices in system design, maintainability, performance, and privacy.
• Leading efforts in data observability, governance, and privacy-by-design principles, ensuring their robust implementation across the organization.
• Mentor and coach engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the team and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Skills and requirements

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role in data infrastructure or platform at scale, ideally in a consumer or marketplace environment.
• Exceptional programming skills, particularly in Python, Scala, or Java, and deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Extensive experience working with privacy-sensitive datasets and implementing robust data observability and governance frameworks.
• A strong technical background with a track record of hands-on architecture and development of complex data systems.

Confirmed role details

• 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.
• Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Candidate fit

• backend problem-solving, careful testing, documentation, and confidence with system reliability