Technical Lead, Depop
Ranking and Recommendations
1 day a week in office
The community-driven fashion marketplace
Job no longer available
The community-driven fashion marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. Our team is dedicated to enhancing and developing the Depop experience to serve the needs of our global community.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users
- You have experience of building Search, Recommendation, or Feed-based systems (using underlying search engines such as ElasticSearch, Lucene etc.)
- 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)
- 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 (e.g. testing, deployment, delivery)
- 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
What the job involves
- Depop is looking for a Technical Lead to join one of our core cross-functional teams and have a key input into the future direction and delivery of search, recommendations and personalisation
- You'll lead a brilliant team of engineers that are building and delivering industry-leading search and recommendation systems
- We're currently recommending 500,000 unique items per day to our user base, and performing over 1.5 billion searches per month, with both systems continuing to scale as our user base grows globally
- Your focus will be on improving our existing search platform, with further greenfield projects on our 2021 roadmap to refine and build out the future of recommendations
- All the while, prioritising your team's professional growth, championing best practice software development and reinforcing a healthy engineering culture
- 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
- Driving the roadmap from a technical perspective, collaborating closely with Product and our VP of Search and translating ideas to code
- Helping your team design systems that can keep up with Depop’s growth
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The re-sale market across everyday clothing, collectables and luxury is growing. One driving force of this is that people care more about sustainability and are therefore buying second-hand goods. This has resulted in a fast growing market with plenty of opportunity.
The experience on Depop is what you'd expect from platforms such as Instagram. The focus on social, creators and influencers has created a very high level of engagement.
Depop was quick to realise the value in power users and has focused efforts there (where people are generating up to $100,000 in annual income for themselves by selling items). The popularity of social platforms making individuals into entrepreneurs will likely attract interest from Instagram and Pinterest. This may pose a challenge for Depop as these competitors will be in a strong position to leverage their networks.
The company has been acquired by Etsy and is now focusing on strategic partnerships in several industries to keep market share flowing in.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2019
$62m
SERIES C
Jan 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.6m
Company benefits
- MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote
- Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week
- Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk
- Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year
- Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral
- Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave
- Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
- Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
- Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
- Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting
- 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
- 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
- We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us
- We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working
- Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Beckerman
(Founder)Founded a magazine in Italy before Depop. No longer holds an operational role
Kruti Patel Goyal
(CEO, non founder)Previously CPO at Etsy, Kruti joined Depop as new CEO in September of 2022.
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