Senior JVM Engineer

Depop is a rapidly scaling business and we’re on the hunt for a Senior Scala Engineer to join our cross functional engineering teams. 

Our Scala engineers are passionate about creating great software from their local environment through to production. 

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Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Front-End and other Backend Developers to understand problems and to design solutions.
• Produce high quality code which is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M+ active daily users
• Embrace agile methodologies 
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as book club, functional meet up, blameless post-mortems, architecture review, war games, hack days
• Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow developers to solve problems and write code
• You’ll own your code through its entire lifecycle, including deployment to production
• Help in mentoring junior developers

Requirements

• We love to work in Scala but would also like to hear from you if you have experience in other JVM languages (we will teach you Scala!!)
• Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.
• Write well designed, tested code
• Follow-up on feature until the code is used by customers. Make sure the testing, deployment, monitoring, alerting are in place
• Understand the challenges of distributed software and the way to ease development in that architecture
• Work in an iterative way via continuous improvement
• Put emphasis on the code quality

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with the Play framework, and DynamoDB
• Experience with event driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform
• Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers
• Contribution to open-source libraries
• Tech blog posts
• Degree level knowledge of Computer Science or related technical field #LI-SL1