Backend Engineer, Platform

Job summary

Company Description Dep*** is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.

Qualifications

• We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users.

Responsibilities

• As a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:
• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, and other backend teams to understand problems and design effective solutions.
• Produce high-quality code that is well-structured, reliable, maintainable, and simple to understand, supporting systems used by millions of Dep*** users.
• Take ownership of platform and product development, from technical discovery and problem definition through to the breakdown of work and implementation.
• Contribute to high-level architectural thinking, helping to set the long-term technical direction for Dep***’s core application and associated platform services.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and operational safety of critical backend systems.
• Help evolve Dep***’s core application so it remains safe, performant, and fit for future product and engineering needs.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders across engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure, translating technical complexity into shared understanding and actionable plans.
• Support applications end to end, including production incident management, debugging, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Embrace agile methodologies, user-centred thinking, and a pragmatic approach to solving real business and engineering problems.
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by participating in blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, engineering guild sessions, and technical strategy discussions.
• Collaborate daily with fellow engineers in a cross-functional environment to solve complex problems and write high-quality code.

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