20 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations stakeholders to translate strategic goals into scalable platform capabilities.
- Lead the technical design and hands-on implementation of Payments and Fulfilment features.
- Define and evolve the technical roadmap and architecture for Payments and Fulfilment systems.
- Set high standards for system design, maintainability, performance, and engineering quality.
- Build consensus around technical priorities and communicate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach engineers while elevating the technical capabilities of surrounding teams.
- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges and system bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leader working across backend systems at scale.
- Deep expertise designing, building, and operating distributed systems and platforms at scale.
- Exceptional programming skills in Scala, Java, or TypeScript.
- Deep expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures using Kafka.
- A track record of hands-on architecture and development of complex backend systems.
- Strategic, pragmatic problem-solving skills and the ability to implement technical strategies rapidly.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
- Curiosity about AI and willingness to explore how it can improve day-to-day work.
- Experience with Payments or Fulfilment, including integrations with vendors such as Stripe, PayPal, or shipping providers, is beneficial.
- Experience in fashion, marketplaces, fintech, or sustainability-driven technology is beneficial.
Benefits
- Bupa private medical insurance and cash plan healthcare access.
- Subsidised counselling and coaching through Self Space, plus a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders.
- Cycle to Work scheme through Evans or the Green Commute Initiative.
- 25 days of annual leave, with the option to carry over up to 5 days.
- Up to 2 additional paid Impact Days per year for volunteering.
- Fully paid four-week sabbatical after five years of consecutive service.
- Flexible MyMode hybrid working with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options, depending on the role.
- Dog-friendly offices.
- Paid parental leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave.
- Twice-yearly development chats, annual performance reviews, a learning budget, and company-wide training resources.
- Life insurance worth 3x salary and pension matching of up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva.
- Free in-office Depop Shop, a packing station with free delivery, and milestone gifts and rewards.
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