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Senior Backend Software Engineer – 12-month FTC
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Software Engineer – 12-month FTC
Depop
• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, and other backend teams to understand problems and design effective solutions. • Produce high-quality code that is well-structured, reliable, maintainable, and simple to understand, supporting systems used by millions of Depop users. • Take ownership of platform and product development, from technical discovery and problem definition through to the breakdown of work and implementation. • Contribute to high-level architectural thinking, helping to set the long-term technical direction for Depop’s core application and associated platform services. • Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and operational safety of critical backend systems. • Work on foundational platform capabilities, including core backend systems, service-to-service communication, authentication, infrastructure architecture, messaging, database scalability, deployment tooling, and internal engineering enablement. • Help evolve Depop’s core application so it remains safe, performant, and fit for future product and engineering needs. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders across engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure, translating technical complexity into shared understanding and actionable plans. • Support applications end to end, including production incident management, debugging, monitoring, and continuous improvement. • Embrace agile methodologies, user-centred thinking, and a pragmatic approach to solving real business and engineering problems. • Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by participating in blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, engineering guild sessions, and technical strategy discussions. • Collaborate daily with fellow engineers in a cross-functional environment to solve complex problems and write high-quality code. • Mentor and support the growth of colleagues, identifying opportunities to share knowledge and strengthen team skill sets. • Own your code, workflows, services, and data through their entire lifecycle.
Job Requirements
- Solid software engineering experience, with strong evidence of the ability to learn and work effectively in the team’s Scala and Python stack.
- A strong backend engineering background, including experience designing, building, testing, and operating production services.
- Willingness to work across multiple paradigms and languages, including backend, platform, and data-oriented work.
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to different audiences.
- Proficiency in testing solutions at different levels, including unit and integration testing.
- Experience with relational or non-relational databases.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration technologies.
- Experience working on production systems where reliability, scalability, and maintainability are critical.
- Ability to proactively identify and solve complex technical problems independently, while knowing when to seek guidance or collaborate with peers.
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
- 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
- Development discussions to support continuous learning and professional growth.
- 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
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