Associate Backend Engineer - Connect
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/17/2025
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Description
Company Description
Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, 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. Find out more at www.depop.com
Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.
If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to [email protected]. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.
Depop is looking for an Associate Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.
Within this role, you’ll be working in the Connect team. This team focuses on how we connect our customers, with a focus on chat, in-app notifications, push notifications, emails and other forms of communication. We want to improve how we connect the community through communication on the platform.
This is a cross-functional squad where you will collaborate with backend and front end engineers, product, design and analytics to help achieve our goals.
Our team works with a modern Scala stack, including Play, Akka, http4s, Cats, Cats Effect, and Kafka. We deploy using Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
As a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
Health + Mental Wellbeing
Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, 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. Find out more at www.depop.com
Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.
If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to [email protected]. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.
Depop is looking for an Associate Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently.
Within this role, you’ll be working in the Connect team. This team focuses on how we connect our customers, with a focus on chat, in-app notifications, push notifications, emails and other forms of communication. We want to improve how we connect the community through communication on the platform.
This is a cross-functional squad where you will collaborate with backend and front end engineers, product, design and analytics to help achieve our goals.
Our team works with a modern Scala stack, including Play, Akka, http4s, Cats, Cats Effect, and Kafka. We deploy using Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
As a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
- Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Front-End and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and to contribute solutions toward.
- You are able to use the relevant tooling in your domain to solve simple problems under supervision
- You seize opportunities to improve your domain knowledge - engage in proactive learning, ask questions, self research, learn from others.
- Embrace agile methodologies
- Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc.
- Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code
- You’ll own your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle
- Documenting any feature development
- Capable writing basic code in Scala (or other backend languages e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python etc)
- An interest in building backend services
- An understanding of REST APIs
- An understanding of distributed datastores and relational databases
- Ability to proactively find and solve well defined problems with support from peers
- Experience with learning new concepts and refining their skills independently
- Experience with eCommerce
- Experience with testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience using AWS
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
- 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
- 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!
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