Compensation

£55K - 85K + Equity

Contract type

Full time

Technologies & frameworks

Java
JVM
Scala

Benefits & perks

Flexible working
Stock options
Pension
Diversity dedicated staff
Parental leave
25 days
Equal opportunity employer
Gym membership
Lots of perks
Meetups

Learn Scala in one of London's fastest growing Tech start ups!

Role overview

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.

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

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

Location

London is the capital of the United Kingdom, situated in the South East of the island. The world's largest financial centre, London is also often referred to the culture capital of the world. The city is well-known for its heritage, including Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Kew Gardens, Westminster Abbey, and the historic settlement of Greenwich. London Underground is the oldest urban railway network in the world.

Technology workers in London earn 60pc more than the city average, with the figure even higher for foreign born workers, who earned 28pc more than their British counterparts in tech jobs. London can be considered as a center for professional relocation. Furthermore, there are over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies' headquarters in London.

The city is famous for unpredictable weather. For instance, it could be cold, warm and rainy in one day and it’s often the topic of conversation across the city.

Did you know...

2.5M people, one third of Londoners, are foreign born
40% of Greater London is green space

Depop

250+

Depop is where the world's creatives come to buy, sell and discover the most inspiring and unique things. Depop was founded by co-founder of PIG magazine and RETROSUPERFUTURE sunglasses, Simon Beckerman. Originally a social network where PIG’s readers could buy items featured in the magazine. After realizing that Depop needed a selling function, Simon re-envisioned the app as a global marketplace — a mobile space where you can see what your friends and the people you’re inspired by are liking, buying, and selling. In turn, your friends and creative influencers all over the world can see the things you like, buy, and sell, and are inspired by you. This ecosystem has supported Depop becoming a global conduit of connection, not only in m-commerce, but culture, design, and creative communities around the world.