Backend engineer in customer support

Company: Depop
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Location: London
Job Description:

Описание

Depop 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.

Задачи

  • Build and evolve the backend services and APIs behind disputes, returns, auto-cancellation and support automation, from design through to production
  • Build and test the integrations that let our AI support look up and act on orders, refunds and shipping
  • Work with CX Operations to decide where automation should act on its own and when it should hand off to a person
  • Design solutions ahead of delivery for small-to-medium problems, and contribute to the design of larger pieces of work in the team
  • Own the health of the services you work on: monitoring, alerting, on-call, fixing what breaks and paying down tech debt
  • Work in an experiment-led squad: define hypotheses and success metrics, run A/B tests and ship behind feature flags
  • Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science and CX Operations, and with partner teams such as Payments and Shipping when work crosses boundaries
  • Take part in code reviews, retros and post-incident reviews, and help teammates get unblocked

Требования

  • Solid backend engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production services, mostly on your own
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Scala, Java, Kotlin or Python, and willingness to pick up others (most of our services are Scala)
  • Experience building secure, reliable APIs used by external systems, including authentication, error handling and safe retries
  • Experience with relational databases and data modelling
  • Understanding of event-driven or asynchronous systems (queues, scheduled jobs, workflows)
  • Good testing habits at unit and integration level
  • Experience with CI/CD and production monitoring, and taking part in on-call
  • You’ll often own problems end to end, in an area where AI tools keep changing, so you’re comfortable setting your own direction and working things out.
  • You measure your work by whether it resolves customer issues, using data to check what’s working and what isn’t
  • You explain technical trade-offs in plain terms, share context openly and ask questions when things are unclear
  • Будет плюсом: Customer support platforms such as Zendesk, including their apps, APIs or workflows; AI support agents or chatbots: configuring their workflows, or connecting them to backend systems through APIs, tools or function calling; Payments, orders, refunds or shipping domains; Marketplace or e-commerce experience; Running experiments and feature flags with tools such as Optimizely; Kafka or other message brokers, workflow engines, Docker and Kubernetes, AWS and infrastructure-as-code

Условия

  • PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
  • Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
  • Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
  • Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
  • 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
  • Impact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering
  • Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
  • Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent
  • All offices are dog-friendly
  • For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
  • For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
  • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
  • Learning budget
  • Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources
  • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva
  • In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
  • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026