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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking

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15 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement pipelines for training, evaluating, deploying, and monitoring learning-to-rank models.
  • Work with ML Scientists to productionize ranking models and improve reliability, latency, and observability.
  • Build and optimize real-time model-serving systems for personalized rankings across the Depop app.
  • Partner with backend and product teams to define integration requirements and coordinate ranking-service deployments.
  • Extend ranking ML infrastructure, including reproducible training workflows, model deployment pipelines, model serving, feature-store consistency, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Maintain operational excellence through testing, monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.
  • Contribute to a scalable engineering culture focused on experimentation and measurable impact.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building and deploying machine learning pipelines in production environments.
  • Experience with ranking, recommendation, or retrieval systems.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning workflows from experimentation through production deployment.
  • Experience designing and operating systems in modern cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
  • Ability to work independently with strong ownership in a fast-moving environment.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Curiosity about AI and willingness to explore how it can enhance day-to-day work.
  • Experience with Python, machine learning frameworks, ML/MLOps tooling, Spark, Databricks, cloud services, and streaming or batch data systems is relevant to the role.

Benefits

  • UK role with Depop's MyMode hybrid-working model offering flexible, office-based, and remote options depending on the role.
  • Bupa healthcare access, subsidized counselling and coaching, an Employee Assistance Programme, and mental health support.
  • 25 days of annual leave, up to 2 additional paid volunteering days, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical after five years of service.
  • Paid parental leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent or carer leave.
  • Learning budget, twice-yearly development chats, annual performance reviews, and company-wide training resources.
  • Life insurance, pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva, and employee extras including a free in-office Depop Shop and free delivery.
  • Dog-friendly offices and Cycle to Work scheme options.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatabricksGoogle Cloud PlatformMLflowPythonPyTorchRabbitMQRedisscikit-learnTensorFlow
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