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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 adjustments@depop.com. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

The RoleWe are seeking a visionary and technically adept Director of Data Engineering to lead our data engineering initiatives at Depop, as we are at a growth point where we want a step change in the performance of our data. We want insights globalised to the whole business by default, clear and incentivised data ownership and a valuable data catalogue.We are looking for a customer-centric leader, who measures success in the daily active users of their data products, as well as accuracy and compliance. We want a strategy for low- and high-intent data discovery that prioritises knowledge sharing and resilient data models.You will lead multiple squads responsible for critical components of our data ecosystem, including experimentation, analytics event logging, our batch data platform on Databricks, Kafka/Avro-based real-time infrastructure, and our analytics engineering platform, which leverages dbt. Your role will be essential in improving self-service capabilities for all users of our data infrastructure, enhancing data quality, and ensuring the usability of our core data sets.Key Responsibilities:<ul><li>Strategic Leadership:<ul><li>Develop and implement the data engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with Depop’s business goals.</li><li>Lead and mentor 3-4 squads responsible for experimentation, analytics event logging, batch data platform, real-time infrastructure, and analytics engineering.</li></ul></li><li>Technical Oversight:<ul><li>Oversee and optimise our data infrastructure, including Databricks (Spark/Spark SQL), Kafka/Avro, and dbt-driven data pipelines.</li><li>Drive initiatives to improve data quality, usability, and the self-service experience for engineers.</li></ul></li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration:<ul><li>Partner with Data Science, Insights, and Engineering teams to ensure data solutions meet their needs.</li><li>Advocate for best practices in data governance, security, and compliance.</li></ul></li><li>Innovation and Continuous Improvement:<ul><li>Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve data processing, storage, and accessibility.</li><li>Cultivate a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement within the data engineering team.</li></ul></li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Experience &amp; Expertise:<ul><li>Experience in data engineering, within a leadership or managerial role overseeing multiple teams or squads.</li><li>Strong expertise in data infrastructure, including experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Kafka, Avro, and dbt.</li><li>Demonstrated success in managing data platforms at scale, including both batch processing and real-time streaming architectures.</li><li>Deep understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT processes, and analytics engineering.</li><li>Strong programming skills, particularly in Python, Scala, or Java, and a solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).</li></ul></li><li>Leadership &amp; Management:<ul><li>Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing managers and senior individual contributors.</li><li>Strong leadership skills with a track record of building and nurturing high-performing, collaborative teams.</li><li>Ability to inspire and influence teams, driving alignment with organisational goals and encouraging a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.</li></ul></li><li>Collaboration &amp; Communication:<ul><li>Experience working closely with data science, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver impactful data solutions.</li><li>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders around a common data strategy.</li></ul></li></ul>

Director of Data Engineering

As a Senior iOS engineer at Depop you’ll work in one of our Product teams to add new functionality as well as improve existing features through a data driven A/B testing workflow. You will be working in Swift, alongside Backend and other iOS Engineers, leveraging our Mobile Continuous Integration pipeline, with Unit and Integration Testing built in, to iterate our iOS application used by millions of users.You will work in a small multidisciplinary product team that is supported by a much wider community of Depop iOS developers, insights teams, product managers and platform engineers.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team? Take a look at our blog! We write about technology, people and smart engineering - <a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank">https://engineering.depop.com/</a>Responsibilities:<ul><li>Support the team to deliver weekly features/upgrades.</li><li>Take full ownership of the components the team ships to the iOS app. Monitor and resolve issues.</li><li>Support the A/B testing workflow and collaborate with the insights team to ensure high quality.</li><li>Work closely with the design, product management and backend teams to ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and effectively.</li><li>Refactor existing code to leverage the latest developments in the iOS framework.</li><li>Communicate any engineering challenges faced when supporting a wide range of devices.</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Commercial experience using Swift or Objective-C, with real exposure to different platforms and OS versions.</li><li>Experience working within a Mobile Continuous Integration framework.</li><li>Experience with Unit (XCTest) and Integration Testing.</li><li>Experience in consuming a RESTful API.</li><li>Prior experience mentoring junior developers</li></ul>Desirable: <ul><li>Experience with the VIPER architecture.</li><li>Experience with A/B testing and solving complex experiments</li></ul>

Senior iOS Engineer

In 2025 our ambition is to be a high-performing, delivery-focused organisation and the best engineering organisation for those who value meaningful career growth. We are looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to run our People Powered Experience team. You will be encouraged to help guide the team while delivering a contribution to its impact and strategic roadmap, and be part of shaping our engineering culture of high performance and high compassion. As an Engineering Manager at Depop, you will be responsible for the delivery, wellbeing, efficiency and ultimately, success of the team. You will work alongside a Product Manager, Product Designer and Senior Staff Engineer as part of our wider ‘People Powered’ initiative focusing specifically around how we transform Depop into a thriving social shopping platform through new UGC experiences and increased P2P connections.You will manage the engineers in the team and be responsible for creating and executing on the team&#39;s roadmap. You’ll report to the Senior Director of Engineering in the Demand pillar.Responsibilities<ul><li>Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value.</li><li>Lead and Support Your Team: Run a cross-functional team of 3-8 engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success. While encouraged to stay hands-on, your primary focus will be on enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.</li><li>Cultivate Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team&#39;s performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.</li><li>Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth multi-functional collaboration.</li><li>Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>An experienced Engineering manager with experience growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.</li><li>Worked closely in tandem with Design and Product, as either a Product Engineer in the past, or Engineering Manager, to build rich user experiences on mobile.</li><li>Either a BE engineering background with working experience of building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users, or a Mobile engineering background with working experience building a consumer app at scale.</li><li>Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery. You get huge satisfaction from tackling complex and ambitious problems, and delivering the highest quality features.</li><li>Strong decision making skills,  based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals, with preference towards simplicity and a strong bias towards delivery.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.</li><li>Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.</li><li>You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community,  having each other&#39;s backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.</li></ul>Bonus points if:<ul><li>You are familiar with any one of the following technologies : Scala, Swift ( iOS) or Typescript.</li><li>You have previously worked on UGC experiences or rich product experiences connecting users (and their content) with each other.</li><li>You have previously worked in an App first business.</li></ul>

Engineering Manager, People Powered Experience

Depop is looking for Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the Customer Experience (CX) product engineering team developing the services used for interaction between our customers and Depop. As a member of this multi-functional team, you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to improve ease of access to support and efficient issue resolution for our customers. You will be responsible for ideating, designing, and developing various Scala microservices, which are central to Depop’s CX operations. Your work will be pivotal in ensuring we facilitate excellent interactions between Depop and our customers on the platform. Responsibilities:  As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions </li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation</li><li>End-to-end application support, including production incident management </li><li>Embrace agile methodologies and user-centred thinking</li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions.. </li><li>Collaborate daily with fellow engineers in the cross-functional environment to solve problems and write code</li><li>Mentor and coach your colleagues  </li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or be interested in learning a functional language</li><li>Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres</li><li>Distributed datastores (e.g. DynamoDB)</li><li>Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka)</li><li>Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second</li><li>DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)</li><li>Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.</li></ul>Must haves:<ul><li>Experience with Scala </li><li>Willing to work in Python and Scala codebases</li><li>Proficient in testing solutions at different levels — unit and integration —</li><li>Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena</li><li>Experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li></ul> Nice to haves:<ul><li>Experience with Java</li><li>Experience with Play framework</li><li>Experience with web frameworks, or web development</li><li>Experience with eCommerce</li><li>Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka</li><li>Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform</li></ul>

Senior Backend Engineer

In 2025 our ambition is to be a high-performing, delivery-focused organisation and the best engineering organisation for those who value meaningful career growth. We are looking for a UK based Engineering Manager to run our Android Team team. You will be expected to help guide your team while delivering a contribution to its impact and strategic roadmap, and be part of shaping our engineering culture of high performance and high compassion. As an Engineering Manager at Depop, you will be responsible for the delivery, wellbeing, effectiveness and ultimately, success of the team. You will work closely with the team’s  Product Manager, Product Designer and Senior Staff Engineer focusing on building a delightful Android experience and growing Android userbase. You will manage all engineers (7-9 Android engineers) in the team and be responsible for creating and executing on the team&#39;s roadmap. You’ll report to the Director of Engineering in the Supply pillar.  Responsibilities<ul><li>Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value. </li><li>Lead and Support Your Team: Manage a team of 7-9 Android engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success. While encouraged to stay hands-on, your primary focus will be on enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.</li><li>Foster Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team&#39;s performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.</li><li>Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.</li><li>Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.</li><li>Manage Cross-team Dependencies: Serve as a key liaison between the Android team and other product teams, ensuring efficient prioritisation and delivery of business-critical features and technical requirements. </li></ul>QualificationsYou’ll be an excellent fit if you have: <ul><li>Strong experience as an Engineering manager, with experience in growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.</li><li>Android engineering background with working experience building a consumer app at scale.</li><li>Worked closely in tandem with Design and Product, as either a Product Engineer in the past, or Engineering Manager, to build rich user experiences on mobile.</li><li>Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery. You get huge satisfaction from tackling complex and ambitious problems, and delivering the highest quality features.</li><li>Strong decision making skills,  based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals, with preference towards simplicity and a strong bias towards delivery.</li><li>Experience managing individual engineer performance; from managing underperformance, growing junior engineers, and enabling senior engineers to reach their full potential.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.</li><li>Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.</li><li>You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community,  having each other&#39;s backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.</li></ul>Bonus points if:<ul><li>You have previously worked in an App first business.</li><li>You have previous experience organising and tracking team workflows using JIRA</li></ul>

Engineering Manager, Android

Role Overview:As a key member of Depop’s Strategic Finance team, you&#39;ll report to the Head of Strategic Finance and work closely with a dynamic team. You’ll drive financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, ensuring decisions are data-driven and aligned with business goals. Your focus will be on budgeting, performance analysis, and strengthening cross-functional collaboration to support Depop’s growth.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Planning:<ul><li>Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial strategic planning processes.</li><li>Develop financial models, including profitability analysis, long-term modelling and scenario planning.</li><li>Establish a strong investment governance framework to guide company-wide decisions.</li></ul>Business Partnering:<ul><li>Serve as a strategic finance partner to the engineering leadership team, providing insightful financial analysis to support both operational and strategic decisions.</li><li>Act as the primary contact within the finance team for financial queries, aligning planning with business objectives.</li></ul>Performance Management &amp; Communication:<ul><li>Oversee Depop&#39;s margin performance, ensuring that KPIs are defined and tracked in alignment with cross-functional business goals.</li><li>Conduct variance analysis, recommending corrective actions when necessary.</li><li>Prepare impactful communication materials that help the company balance short-term performance goals with long-term ambitions.</li></ul>Financial Analysis, Forecasting &amp; Investment Strategy:<ul><li>Deliver comprehensive financial analysis, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities to senior management.</li><li>Lead forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business teams.</li><li>Update and maintain financial models for planning and forecasting.</li></ul>Projects &amp; Initiatives:<ul><li>Contribute to FP&amp;A transformation projects to enhance reporting capabilities.</li><li>Benchmark financial metrics and track industry standards to ensure competitiveness.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>CIMA/ACA qualified</li><li>Experience in FP&amp;A or Strategic Finance, ideally within an e-commerce, marketplace, or scale-up environment. </li><li>Experience in financial modeling, forecasting, and business partnering.</li><li>Ability to design complex models that inform strategic decision-making.</li><li>Ability to develop and implement financial strategies </li><li>Highly analytical with strong data interpretation skills and proficiency with data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Looker, SQL).</li><li>Ability to work cross-functionally across a broad range of stakeholders, including senior executives.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present financial insights clearly and influence decisions </li><li>Strong problem-solving skills </li><li>Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously </li><li>Familiarity with financial software, business intelligence tools, and ERP systems (e.g., Planful, Looker, SQL is a bonus).</li></ul>

Senior Finance Business Partner - FP&A and Engineering

We are seeking an experienced Training Specialist to join our Community Experience team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. As part of our Operational Excellence team, you will work alongside our existing trainer to enhance and scale our training programs, supporting both our in-house teams and outsourced partners.This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our customer experience operations, working with a team of approximately 40 in-house staff and supporting our extensive outsourced partnerships. You&#39;ll be instrumental in evolving our training programs to meet the needs of our growing business while maintaining the high standards our community expects.What You&#39;ll Do<ul><li>Design, implement and deliver comprehensive training programs for new hires and existing team members</li><li>Create engaging content and deliver training for product updates, operational changes, and quality improvement initiatives</li><li>Partner with our Quality and Leadership teams to develop and deliver targeted training interventions based on QA insights and performance metrics</li><li>Collaborate with our Product team to create and deliver training for new features and functionality</li><li>Work closely with our outsourced partners to enhance their training capabilities through effective train-the-trainer programs</li><li>Evaluate training effectiveness and measure impact on key metrics including user satisfaction</li><li>Identify opportunities for training program optimization and scalability</li><li>Research and recommend training tools and technologies to enable self-serve learning</li><li>Support the continuous professional development of our Community Experience team</li></ul>About YouEssential Experience and Skills<ul><li>Demonstrated ability in training delivery within a customer service environment</li><li>Proven track record of designing and implementing successful training programs</li><li>Experience in managing and improving outsourced training partnerships</li><li>Strong track record of delivering effective remote training</li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills</li><li>Ability to translate complex information into engaging training materials</li><li>Experience in measuring and reporting on training effectiveness</li><li>Strong project management and organizational skills</li><li>Proficiency with customer service platforms (e.g., Zendesk)</li></ul>Preferred Experience and Skills<ul><li>Experience with implementing learning management systems or other training tools</li><li>Background in fashion, e-commerce, or marketplace businesses</li><li>Experience in scaling training programs in high-growth environments</li><li>Knowledge of adult learning principles and various training methodologies</li><li>Experience with data analysis and using metrics to drive improvements</li></ul>Key Logistics<ul><li>This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 4 days per month in the  London HQ, plus specific days required for training and onboarding delivery as needed</li><li>Core hours are 9:30am-6:00pm, with flexibility required for training delivery</li><li>You&#39;ll report to our Continuous Improvement Manager within the Operational Excellence team</li></ul>

Senior Community Experience Training Specialist (12-month FTC)

We are looking for a proactive Account Executive to join our Seller Growth Team on a 6-month full-time contract. Based in our New York office, this role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with a selection of strategic branded shops on Depop, driving their success and growth on the platform.Role Overview: The primary goal of this role is to nurture strong, trust-based relationships with key sellers, enabling them to thrive on Depop. You will act as a strategic partner, providing tailored guidance and support while collaborating with internal teams to implement impactful initiatives that elevate their presence and performance.Key Responsibilities:<ul><li>Build and maintain relationships with key sellers, serving as a reliable and solutions-oriented point of contact.</li><li>Develop and deliver customized strategies and actionable recommendations to accelerate seller growth and success.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement comprehensive activations that enhance seller visibility and engagement on the app.</li><li>Monitor and analyze seller performance metrics, finding opportunities for improvement and experimentation.</li><li>Report on activation outcomes, performance insights, and next steps, ensuring transparency and actionable feedback for stakeholders.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Experience in account management, client success, or a related field, with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to develop lasting relationships.</li><li>A customer-centric approach, passionate about understanding user needs and delivering effective solutions to drive success.</li><li>Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging data insights to inform strategies, including proficiency with data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Looker).</li><li>Excellent organizational and detail-oriented skills, capable of handling multiple accounts and projects simultaneously.</li><li>Ability to work cross-functionally is a must, collaborating effectively with internal teams to align strategies and achieve common goals.</li><li>Knowledge of Depop&#39;s marketplace and culture; experience as a Depop buyer or seller is a plus.</li></ul>Why Join Us? This is your chance to contribute to a growing team in a fast-paced, innovative environment. By empowering sellers, you&#39;ll play a pivotal role in shaping Depop&#39;s vibrant marketplace and driving its success.

Seller Growth Account Executive (6 Month FTC)

Role:As the Depop community continues to grow on a global-scale, the systems and cloud infrastructure behind our product must be intelligently designed and built to withstand peaks and troughs in demand.As an Engineer on the core infrastructure team, you will play a key role in this effort. You&#39;ll focus on delivering high-value projects and ensuring the design and implementation of the next phase of our platform meet high standards with our users in mind. You’ll have the opportunity to make architectural decisions and drive improvements when better solutions are available. Our team values quick iteration and adaptation.You&#39;ll use tools like AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Golang, and Python to build the next generation of our platform, enabling distributed ownership of services among engineers. Your work will help create a robust infrastructure platform that supports Depop’s goals. Responsibilities:<ul><li>Empower and Mentor Developers: Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance, and availability of our services, providing guidance and mentorship as needed.</li><li>Innovative Software Solutions: Design, write, and deliver software that enhances the lives of our engineers, improves scalability, and drives platform innovation.</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure Excellence: Define, secure, and optimise the cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance.</li><li>On-Call Participation: Take part in our on-call rota, providing critical support and ensuring service reliability.</li><li>Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvement—measure, automate, and iterate on processes and systems.</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, and security experts, to align infrastructure with company goals and support seamless development and deployment of applications.</li><li>Security and Compliance: Adhere to and promote security best practices and compliance standards across all infrastructure and processes.</li></ul>Qualifications:Technical<ul><li>Experience with Cloud, (AWS preferred) with defining, securing, and optimising cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance.</li><li>Good working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Deployment tools and practices.</li><li>Appreciation of distributed systems.</li><li>Care about writing clean, well-composed, and tested code.</li><li>Highly skilled in at least one language (ideally Python or Golang) and scripting (bash).</li><li>Strong knowledge of network infrastructure design.</li><li>Experience consuming RESTful web services.</li><li>A passion for security, reliability and scalability of deliverables.</li></ul>Non-Technical<ul><li>Work with a product mindset: caring about user outcomes and making data-driven decisions.</li><li>Self-motivated and able to deliver consistent results through problem-solving.</li><li>Demonstrates a good approach to continuous learning and improvement.</li><li>Able to effectively prioritise competing demands.</li><li>Be adaptable to a dynamic working environment.</li><li>Continuously evaluate the team’s ways of working and contribute to its improvement and automation.</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>An understanding of operating Postgres or another major RDBMS at scale.</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes.</li><li>Experience with other major HashiCorp projects (Consul, Vault).</li><li>Knowledge of modern Linux systems internals (kernel, filesystems, network stack, systemd).</li><li>Mentoring experience.</li></ul>

Senior Platform Engineer

Web EngineerCompany DescriptionDepop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.Job DescriptionDepop is looking for an experienced Web Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the Marketplace product engineering pillar developing the services used for interaction between our customers, Depop agents, and Depop. As a member of this cross functional space, you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to create a seamless, efficient, and trustworthy journey for our users, from the moment they register to the moment they receive an order or need customer support.You’ll own the entire lifecycle of small/medium projects of moderate complexity in both our web app and web APIs. You’ll need to be comfortable dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity, proactively pulling in people at the right time. Your work will be pivotal in ensuring we facilitate excellent interactions between Depop and our customers on the platform. Responsibilities:  As a Web Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions </li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation</li><li>End-to-end application support, including production incident management </li><li>Embrace agile methodologies and user-centred thinking</li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions. </li><li>Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment  to solve problems and write code</li><li>Mentor and coach your colleagues  </li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Solid JavaScript skills, including concepts like asynchronous programming, promises, closures, types, and ES6.</li><li>HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility.</li><li>Experience in TypeScript, React and Node.js. </li><li>Building automated tests using Javascript test frameworks.</li><li>Experience consuming RESTful API services.</li><li>Comfortable in using Git.</li><li>Experience working collaboratively as part of an agile team in a product-focused business.</li></ul> Nice to haves:<ul><li>Experience deploying web applications at scale.</li><li>Experience writing RESTful API services, either in Javascript or Kotlin/Scala.</li><li>Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.</li><li>Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL</li><li>Experience of CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) and embracing DevOps with maintaining pipelines using Jenkins.</li></ul>

Web Engineer

Job DescriptionDepop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in a backend team leading multiple services at the core of Depop’s architecture. As a member of a team of backend engineers, you will collaborate with other backend teams to establish and maintain standards for accessing data on our users and products. Responsibilities:  As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Data Scientists, and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions. </li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>End-to-end application support, including production incident management </li><li>Embrace agile methodologies </li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc. </li><li>Collaborate every day with fellow engineers in the multi-functional environment  to solve problems and write code</li><li>You’ll own your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Be capable to write high quality code in Python and ideally Scala or be interested in learning a functional language</li><li>Distributed datastores (e.g. DynamoDB, )</li><li>Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka)</li><li>Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second</li><li>Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres</li><li>DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)</li><li>Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.</li></ul>Must haves:<ul><li>Experience with Python </li><li>Willing to work in Python and Scala codebases</li><li>Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—</li><li>Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena</li><li>Experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li></ul> Nice to haves:<ul><li>Experience with Java or Scala</li><li>Experience with Django framework</li><li>Experience with eCommerce</li><li>Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka</li><li>Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform</li></ul>

We’re looking for an experienced Content Designer to create user-friendly content across Depop&#39;s Community Experience (CX) channels. This involves getting to know how our platform works inside-out, and collaborating with product, marketing and operations teams to help our users get the most out of their Depop experience.You’ll own support content at Depop, writing for Depop’s Help Centre and internal knowledge base, as well as customer service macros and other content as needed. You’ll also lead the content strategy for these touchpoints, developing a process for keeping them up-to-date as our platform evolves. You’ll sit in our Product Design team and report to our Lead Content Designer, but you’ll work closely with our CX (Community Experience) team, combining UX writing expertise with a deep understanding of customer support needs.Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, write and edit content to help users and teams meet their goals.</li><li>Own content across Depop’s CX channels, including the Depop Help Centre, internal knowledge base, chatbot responses and customer service macros.</li><li>Help establish ongoing processes for defining, creating and governing CX content throughout its lifecycle.</li><li>Use feedback and/or testing to iterate, refining content to better serve user needs.</li><li>Collaborate regularly with peers across disciplines, including CX, design, research, engineering and product marketing.</li><li>Work with legal and regulatory teams to make sure the content you write is compliant with industry standards and regulations, where necessary.</li><li>Contribute to team documentation including content design guidelines.</li><li>Act as a Depop voice and tone consultant, providing guidance to non-writers where necessary.</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Proven experience in UX writing</li><li>A portfolio of writing / content design that shows your design thinking and how you use language to serve user needs.</li><li>You have a strong understanding of UX design principles and how content influences user behaviour and interaction.</li><li>You are able to justify your copy decisions with user research, experiment results, competitor research or UX best practices.</li><li>You have excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively individually and with collaborators from various disciplines.</li><li>You have strong organisational skills and thrive in an environment that requires you to manage multiple projects, with several teams, simultaneously.</li><li>You are proficient in Figma, and also ideally have some experience working with Zendesk or similar CX tooling.</li><li>You can write in US and British English as needed.</li></ul>Heads up, this probably isn’t for you if:<ul><li>You have no hands-on experience of content design or working in UX, technical writing or similar roles.</li></ul>

CX Content Designer

Senior iOS EngineerCompany DescriptionDepop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.Job DescriptionDepop is looking for an experienced Senior iOS Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the Customer Experience (CX) product engineering team developing the services used for interaction between our customers, Depop agents, and Depop. As a senior-level iOS engineer at Depop you’ll add new functionality as well as improve existing features through data driven A/B testing workflow and experiments. You will be working in Swift, alongside backend and other iOS engineers, leveraging our CI pipeline with unit and integration testing built in, to iterate our native iOS application to help our millions of users to fall into the pit of success. Our small multidisciplinary product teams are supported by a much wider community of Depop iOS developers, insights teams, product managers and platform engineers. You’ll report to an engineering manager who is a member of your delivery team - their goal is to ensure you are set for meaningful career growth, engagement, and support.We’re open for this role to be based remotely from anywhere in the UK, or on a hybrid basis within our London HQ!Responsibilities<ul><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems, design solutions, and ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and effectively. </li><li>Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation</li><li>Support the team to deliver weekly features/upgrades.</li><li>Exercise technical leadership on the features you and your team ship to the iOS app. Take ownership in monitoring and resolving issues.</li><li>Support the A/B testing workflow and collaborate with the insights team to ensure high quality.</li><li>Refactor existing code to leverage the latest developments in the iOS framework.  </li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Commercial experience using Swift or Objective-C, with real exposure to different platforms and OS versions.</li><li>Experience working within a Mobile Continuous Integration framework.</li><li>Experience with Unit (XCTest) and Integration Testing.</li><li>Experience in consuming a RESTful API.</li><li>Prior experience mentoring your engineering peers.</li><li>A product mindset; you enjoy stepping into the shoes of your customers to understand their needs, and use data to drive your decision making.</li><li>Desirable:</li></ul><ul><li>Experience with the VIPER architecture.</li><li>Experience with A/B testing and solving complex experiments.</li></ul>

<h2>Role</h2>Depop is looking for a dedicated Associate Machine Learning Scientist to join our Pricing team. You will work alongside a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Engineers, Analysts and other Machine Learning Scientist, playing a key role in building machine learning models to power Depop’s pricing recommendations and optimisation strategies.<h2></h2><h2>Responsibilities:</h2><ul><li>Research, design, and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems within the pricing and product matching space</li><li>Understand requirements from various stakeholders across the business and design machine learning solutions to solve applied business problems</li><li>Design and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development</li><li>Keep up to date with applied research, contribute to knowledge sharing and apply new techniques for prediction, information retrieval, text and image processing, causal inference, and optimisation</li><li>Participate in team ceremonies (e.g. following the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, planning and product roadmapping)</li><li>Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences</li></ul>Skills and Experience:<ul><li>Experience developing ML models to solve real-world problems, experience working as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Scientist</li><li>Proficiency in Python</li><li>Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch</li><li>Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Passion for learning new skills and staying up to date with applied ML developments</li></ul>Bonus Points<ul><li>Experience with pricing models, causal inference, or revenue optimisation</li><li>Experience with NLP, image processing, information retrieval, and deep learning models</li><li>Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests</li><li>Experience with Databricks and PySpark</li><li>Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)</li></ul>

Associate Machine Learning Scientist

The RoleAt Depop, machine learning is integral to our value proposition. In the ranking team, we build learning-to-rank models that power personalised experiences across the Depop app (in search results, user recommendations, etc.).As a Machine Learning Scientist in this team, you will work on building state-of-the-art ranking models to power Depop&#39;s app, serving millions of personalised results to users daily.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Research, design and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems within the ranking space</li><li>Understand requirements from various stakeholders across the business, designing machine learning solutions to solve business problems, such as: How can we surface relevant products for this search? OR How can we personalise the user experience in real-time?</li><li>Set up and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development</li><li>Keep up to date with state-of-the-art research, contribute to Machine Learning groups, and apply new techniques for NLP, image processing, etc.</li><li>Participate in team ceremonies (follow the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, product road mapping, etc)</li><li>Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences</li></ul>Skills and experience:<ul><li>Experience working as a Machine Learning Scientist, with a track record of delivering models to solve industry-scale problems</li><li>Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with common frameworks such as Transformers, PyTorch or TensorFlow</li><li>Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write production-grade code and a good understanding of data engineering &amp; MLOps</li><li>Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with ML algorithms</li></ul>Bonus points:<ul><li>Experience working on learning-to-rank, search or recommendation models</li><li>Experience with deep learning &amp; large language models</li><li>Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests</li><li>Experience with Databricks and PySpark</li><li>Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)</li></ul>

Machine Learning Scientist

In 2025 our ambition is to be a high-performing, delivery-focused organisation and the best engineering organisation for those who value meaningful career growth. We are looking for a UK based Engineering Manager to run one of Depop’s most cross-functional teams and high impact teams - Martech. You will be expected to help guide your team while delivering a contribution to its impact and strategic roadmap, and be part of shaping our engineering culture of high performance and high compassion. As an Engineering Manager at Depop, you will be responsible for the success, wellbeing and effectiveness of the team. You will work alongside a Product Manager with domain expertise as part of our wider Growth initiative focusing specifically around our Martech capabilities to improve paid marketing efforts.You will manage all engineers in the team and be responsible for creating and executing on the team&#39;s roadmap. You’ll report to the Senior Engineering Manager in the Growth pillar. Responsibilities<ul><li>Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value.</li><li>Lead and Support Your Team: Manage a cross-functional team of 3-6 engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success. While encouraged to stay hands-on, your primary focus will be on enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.</li><li>Foster Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team&#39;s performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.</li><li>Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.</li><li>Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.</li></ul>QualificationsYou’ll be an excellent fit if you have: <ul><li>A proven track record as an Engineering manager of growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.</li><li>Have good MarTech domain knowledge, with an understanding of the advertising ecosystem, including product catalogues, ad conversion data, targeting and measurement, as well as the changing privacy and compliance landscape.</li><li>Have a data engineering background, or working experience with data technologies such as Databricks, Spark, Kafka, SQL and Airflow. </li><li>Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery. You get huge satisfaction from tackling complex and ambitious problems, and delivering the highest quality features.</li><li>Strong decision making skills,  based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals, with preference towards simplicity and a strong bias towards delivery.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.</li><li>Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.</li><li>You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community,  having each other&#39;s backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.</li></ul>Bonus points if:<ul><li>You are familiar with any one of the following technologies : Scala, Python Swift ( iOS), React or Typescript.</li><li>You are familiar with observability, tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies</li></ul>

Engineering Manager, Martech

<div>The RoleIn 2025 we are investing in improving security capabilities to our Engineering &amp; Data group. We are looking for a security engineer to guide our engineering practices, improve security in our software delivery lifecycle, and work closely with our  Information Security team.. As a Security Engineer at Depop, you will be responsible for providing security guidance and support, building capabilities which strengthen our security, and support the InfoSec team with our current security policies and processes.</div><div>Responsibilities:<ul><li>Perform code/design reviews and security testing</li><li>Identifying and working with our engineers to mitigate vulnerabilities in our codebases</li><li>Working with our engineers to integrate security into the SDLC</li><li>Propose solutions for paved paths to solve problems at scale</li><li>Help develop a culture of secure engineering</li><li>Assess and address risks in our cloud-based platform</li><li>Identify insecure patterns in our infrastructure and networks</li><li>Help establish and implement infrastructure and network policies</li><li>Support and facilitate of our vulnerability management program</li><li>Be part of our on-call rotation for security incidents</li></ul></div><div>Requirements:<ul><li>Experience with developing APIs and Frontend applications</li><li>Experience architecting secure systems at scale</li><li>Experience integrating security testing into the SDLC i.e. SAST, DAST, SCA</li><li>Experience with vulnerability scanning and software patching at scale</li><li>Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS specifically is advantageous)</li><li>Strong networking foundations</li><li>Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform as an advantage)</li><li>Experience securing Kubernetes clusters and docker containers</li><li>A strong understanding of industry standard methodologies for secure engineering</li><li>Be comfortable working independently, with a high degree of trust and autonomy.</li><li>A proven track record of role-modelling a pragmatic security culture</li><li>Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.</li></ul></div>

Staff Security Engineer

Depop is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional team in partnership with the mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success.ResponsibilitiesAs a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists,  Front-End and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions.</li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Embrace agile methodologies </li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc. </li><li>Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment  to solve problems and write code</li><li>You’ll own your code and workflows, through its entire lifecycle</li><li>Documenting any feature development</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Be capable to write high quality code in Scala or Java or Python  </li><li>Distributed datastores (e.g. DynamoDB, Redshift, AWS Athena)</li><li>Message queues: (e.g. RabbitMQ / Apache Kafka)</li><li>Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second</li><li>Experience working with RDBMS, ideally Postgres</li><li>DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)</li><li>Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.</li></ul>Must haves:<ul><li>Experience with Scala or Java or Python</li><li>Experience working with Frontend Engineers (Web/Mobile) </li><li>Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—</li><li>Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Athena</li></ul>Nice to haves:<ul><li>Experience with eCommerce</li><li>Experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka</li><li>Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform</li></ul>

Backend Engineer

The Insights team within Depop supports the entire business. Our analysts are embedded within Product and Marketing teams and are an integral part of making sure our business is as data-driven as possible.We are currently looking for a Market and Audience Researcher to support our external research efforts. In this role you will work closely with stakeholders across Marketing, Brand and Strategy to design and conduct research into our markets, audiences and users. This role would involve primarily Quantitative research analysis, with opportunities to work on Qualitative projects as well.Your objective would be to use a variety of primary and secondary research methods to stress test, validate and complement the findings from our internal analysis and help us extend our understanding of our business environment. Responsibilities:<ul><li>Understanding user sentiment: Owning our regular internal feedback surveys and helping the business understand what’s top of mind for our users. This includes advising on optimal data collection and sampling methodologies </li><li>Campaign support: Conducting primary research about our audience to help feed into creative briefs and marketing strategy, supporting the marketing team with creative testing</li><li>Business strategy: Supporting our Strategy team in shaping the future of Depop,  by designing &amp; conducting primary quantitative research about our markets, audiences and users from questionnaire design through to data analysis</li><li>Identifying and sourcing appropriate secondary data points and research to supplement our internal data and primary research efforts, joining them together with relevant internal data points to build a holistic understanding of the topic at hand</li><li>Interpreting findings and making recommendations based on the data collected</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>Proven track record of conducting impactful market research and ability to turn research data into clear findings and compelling narratives that inform decisions</li><li>Proven experience of conducting hands-on projects, using quantitative research methods (e.g. designing and programming surveys)</li><li>Some experience of running projects using qualitative research projects (e.g. interviews, focus groups)</li><li>Ability to work independently end-to-end to design, conduct and synthesise research with minimal supervision</li><li>Advanced proficiency in either Excel or Google Sheets</li><li>Ability to collaborate closely with other analysts to link research findings with analytics</li><li>An excellent, confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills and good at building relationships, both with colleagues across the business as well as with our users</li><li>Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to make a difference and drive impact</li><li>A hunger to learn, natural curiosity and a keen eye for detail</li><li>A strong sense of ownership and highly organised nature</li></ul>Bonus points if you have<ul><li>Experience working in an in-house Insights or Analytics team</li><li>Proficiency in SQL </li></ul>