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Staff Backend Engineer - Data Platform
Depop
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders across Product, Data, and Engineering to translate strategic goals into well-architected, scalable platform capabilities.
- Drive 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.
- Lead 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.
- Identify and address complex technical challenges and bottlenecks, proposing and implementing effective solutions.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern data ecosystems — including extensive experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Beam and DBT.
- Demonstrated success in designing, building, and operating data platforms at scale, encompassing both batch processing and real-time streaming architectures.
- Expertise in data warehousing concepts, advanced ETL/ELT processes, and analytics engineering best practices.
- 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.
- Ability to think strategically and pragmatically: you can define long-term technical strategies and execute rapidly.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you’re comfortable influencing technical direction and aligning diverse stakeholders across the organization.
- Bonus points:
- Experience with machine learning infrastructure or ML Ops practices.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures in a mobile-first product environment.
- Prior work in fashion, marketplaces, or sustainability-driven tech.
- 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!
About Depop
E-Commerce & Online Retail500 employeesFounded 2011
Depop is a private peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace helping buyers and sellers trade secondhand clothing.
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