Pave a path for data as a product : Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data capabilities, observability and governance into the platform to enable decision making and ultimately better experience for Depop’s end users.
Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, platforms and tools
Technical Design: Architect and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely at scale.
Lead Technological Initiatives: You will lead large, complex initiatives that will further enable our data users by setting the vision and roadmap, gathering requirements and defining the scope and success metrics for your initiative all while embracing a platform as a product approach.
Uphold Operational Excellence: Automating infrastructure and monitoring, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable standard processes through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely to establish trusted relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our data platform. You will also contribute to group and peer-level initiatives to improve our data platform as a whole.
Invest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Build on our Engineering Culture: Take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values.
Requirements
Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) with proven foundation in software engineering best practices
Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling complex data systems and backend infrastructure in production environments within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Ability to think strategically and pragmatically
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you're comfortable influencing technical direction and aligning diverse stakeholders across the organisation
Expertise in managing and integrating data orchestration and processing tools & platforms such as Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Kafka or similar
Experience with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor etc)
A passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field.
Nice To Have: DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), IaC (Terraform)
Experience working with containerisation technologies
Docker, Kubernetes
Previous hands-on expertise with Spark
Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi
Experience working with lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks
Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components
Experience working with data governance, observability and catalogue solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub) enabling rich data lineage, data contracts, SLA/SLO, tagging and data quality monitoring capabilities
Tech Stack
Airflow
AWS
Azure
Cloud
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Jenkins
Kafka
Kubernetes
Microservices
Python
Scala
Spark
Terraform
Benefits
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 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
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
18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more
Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings
Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK
Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!