Engineer I - Android

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

Job Description

The Role

We’re searching for Android Engineers eager to produce the most evocative buying and selling experience possible. You will work as part of the Android-focused Product team, developing new user facing features and transforming the way Depop connects with creative minds, by constantly delivering great user experiences on their Android devices.

Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? Take a look at our blog!

We write about technology, people and smart engineering - https://engineering.depop.com/

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new user-facing features in the Depop app
• Work closely with the design, product management and backend teams to ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Educate the Depop family on the engineering challenges faced when supporting a wide range of devices with varying screen sizes, orientations and densities.
• Taking ownership of the quality of the code by writing unit tests, instrumentation tests and working alongside QA to ensure that we can have confidence in every release that we put out.
• Refactor existing code to leverage the latest developments in the Android framework.
• Optimise the performance of the app to ensure that we have a minimum memory, CPU and data footprint.
• Maintain a healthy curiosity towards other Android apps and champion ideas on what we can do to make the Depop Android app better.
• Ensure that our app meets the needs of our global audience.
• Integration of new SDKs when required within the app.

Qualifications

About you:

• Your ability is more important than the number of years in the job, but as a guideline someone who has around 2 years of relevant experience could be right for this role.
• Good technical knowledge of mobile application development in Android with experience producing apps that feature a fast, consistent and non-blocking user experience.
• Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and multi-threading.
• Experience with debugging issues occurring on user’s devices using tools such as Crashlytics.
• Able to exercise good judgement on when to craft your own frameworks, and when to use those provided by Android / by the community.
• We have over 100 libraries and SDKs used in the app. While we won’t list them all here, you should be able to learn and work with new libraries, SDKs and design patterns quickly thanks to your wealth of experience and strong engineering fundamentals.

Desirable: 

• Previous experience of working with a large and mature Android codebase.
• Previous experience of using dependency injection, Kotlin Coroutines/Flows and Android support and design libraries.
• Has created complex and rich UI experiences, preferably using MVVM or MVI architecture.
• Understanding of Retrofit for ease of integration with Http requests.
• Experience of Continuous Integration preferably using Bitrise, and automated UI testing preferably using Espresso and JUnit.
• Understanding of ProGuard and Gradle to ensure that our build is fast and stable.
• You are someone who thrives in a highly collaborative environment; you enjoy taking ownership of your work, collaborating with designers, stakeholders and other engineers to develop a deep understanding of the work, breaking it down into deliverable chunks and keeping everyone up to date with your progress.

Additional Information

UK Benefits
Health Mental Wellbeing

• 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

Work/Life Balance

• 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
• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
• We offer sabbaticals for our long-serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working.
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.

All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
You can also apply to work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries).

Family Life

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.

Learn and Grow

• 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.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

And finally, as a valued Depop employee we waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.