Head of Backend Engineering

Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in Manchester, New York, Los Angeles and Australia. 🌍

We have almost 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. As well as this, we are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users. 📈

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. ♻️

The Role

As the Head of Backend Engineering at Depop, you'll provide technical oversight and leadership across the business and act as a functional manager.

You own the product and solution architecture and in your role, you'll place a key focus on quality control. You will provide a vision and know how to champion it and influence best practices by working through senior members of your team.

Requirements

•  Firm believer that engineers are accountable for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including quality assurance and operation in production
• You were an exceptional hands-on engineer in the past and decided that you can have more impact by leading others
• Track record of leading engineers in cross-functional teams
• Track record of leading your teams through transformations, both technically and organisationally
• Strong software architecture skills
• Bonus: you still love to code 💻

Responsibilities

Lead and develop our talented team of backend engineers, currently sitting in 8 teams and counting 🚀

Ensure Depop can continue to scale at a rapid pace by providing a vision for people, process and technology in the back-end engineering space 💻

Lead the team on a journey of owning quality and and help them to continuously improve 🔥

You are able to communicate to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive the implementation of your vision across teams 💬

Accountable to deliver the technical OKRs of your domain 📊

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/ 

Benefits

Depop offers the opportunity to work in one of the UK's fastest-growing scale-ups, with a vibrant and diverse group of people, building a product we all deeply care about, in addition to:

Learn and Grow: We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to up-skill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask! 📚

Wellbeing: We care about wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eye-care vouchers and a discounted gym membership. 🤸‍♀️

Mental Health: Mental health is a top priority for Depop. We offer subsidised counselling appointments through SelfSpace, have mental health first aiders and 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, and sabbaticals for our long-serving employees. 🏖

Family life: We offer flexible working (based on your team), generous parental leave policies, and, all of our offices are dog-friendly! 🐶

Financial: We match up to 6 percent on your pension based on qualified earnings and have retail discounts from benefithub. 💸

Fun: We love to celebrate our successes at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more. 🍹

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.