Technical Lead - Engagement
at Careers at Depop (View all jobs)
7 Curtain Rd, Hackney, London EC2A 3LT
Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in New York and LA. We have more than 20 million registered users in 147 countries. In the UK, 1 in 3 Gen Z/Millennials are registered and in the US we have grown 300% over two years. We are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users.
Our mission is to empower the next generation to transform fashion, and our team of nearly 200 people are dedicated to serving the needs of our global community.
We operate on three pillars:
- Community: Our buyers, sellers and employees are inclusive, diverse and accessible. We are committed to empowering diversity within the fashion community.
- Entrepreneurship: We support our community and help them build their business with Depop. We thrive on supporting innovation by shaping an environment where creators, makers or hustlers can thrive.
- Sustainability: Depop helps extend the life of garments and reduce waste, we care about the world and want to make a positive change within the fashion industry.
We’re looking for a product-orientated Lead Software Engineer to join one of our core cross-functional teams.
You’ll lead a team that contributes to driving Depop’s growth on a global scale. We have more than 20 million registered users in 147 countries and we’re continuing to scale at a monthly rate of 500,000+.
The Role
You'll be working in a technically innovative environment, building high-traffic and scalable distributed systems that service 10,000s of concurrent users, mentoring and coaching other engineers, and iterating and improving your teams work based on short feedback loops. Sound like your thing?
Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? Take a look at our blog. We write about technology, people and smart engineering - https://engineering.depop.com/
Responsibilities
- Driving the team roadmap from a technical perspective, collaborating closely with Product, and translating ideas to code
- Helping your team design systems that can keep up with Depop’s growth by acting as a facilitator where possible and taking charge where necessary
- Growing your team’s sense of ownership; from running their own services to monitoring, maintenance and reacting to production issues
- Ensuring timely delivery of your teams’ projects, which will ultimately have a tangible impact on Depop’s success
- Supporting a strong engineering culture, orientated on technical innovation, and professional development
- Ensuring your team follows our engineering practices, by leading from the front
Requirements
Required Technical skills:
- Experience building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users
- Expert knowledge with a high-level programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python)
- Strong knowledge of systems design, within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP)
Desired Technical skills:
- Exposure to working vertically across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend Services
Non-technical:
- Experience working in a B2C product-based technical environment
- Successful end-to-end delivery of your team’s projects; from scoping and translating business requirements into plans, to design, implementation and maintenance, whilst coordinating with other teams (and engineers).
- Good people management and mentoring experience; we want you to help shape and develop our people
- You’re experienced in improving your team’s way of working by fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Reinforce the ‘you build it, you ship it’ mentality to your teams working methodology, ultimately, owning the underlying infrastructure
- Exemplary communication skills, especially in dealing with multiple stakeholders
Benefits
- Learn and Grow: We want to give our people the opportunity to learn. We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask!
- Wellbeing: We care about our employees wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eyecare vouchers and a discounted gym membership at Nuffield Health.
- Mental Health: Our employees mental health is a top priority. We offer subsidised counseling appointments with a qualified therapist through SelfSpace, we have trained mental health first aiders and we also run yoga, meditation and more.
- Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism to allow you the opportunity to make a difference and we offer sabbaticals for our long serving employees
- Family life: We offer flexible working (based on the team you will be joining), generous maternity/paternity and parental leave policies which includes adoption and paid time off for fertility treatments. Also, all of our offices are dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
- Fun: We love to hang out with each other at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties to celebrate our successes. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more...we’ve taken this virtual for now!