iOS Engineer

Job Description

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

Depop is hiring a mid-level iOS engineer to join our iOS Platform team. This team focuses on constructing the fundamental layers and core components of the Depop app, setting a solid foundation for its functionality and seamless user experience. You will be contributing to the iOS project in Swift alongside a Staff and two Senior iOS engineers, leveraging our Mobile Continuous Integration pipeline, with Unit and Integration testing built in, to iterate on our iOS application to serve our millions of users. You will work in a small team that is supported by a much wider community of Depop iOS developers, insights teams, product managers and platform engineers.

We’re open for this role to be based remotely from anywhere in the UK, or on a hybrid basis within our London HQ or Manchester office!

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/

Qualifications

• Collaborate with product teams to deliver weekly features and updates, providing support and fostering strong teamwork.
• Design and develop iOS applications that facilitate code writing, testing, and execution.
• Ensure applications exhibit high performance and responsiveness.
• Implement effective monitoring and observability practices to maintain application health.
• Contribute to maintaining code base quality, organisation, and automation.
• Oversee infrastructure and CI/CD operations for smooth development and deployment processes.
• Work closely with android/web, backend teams, QA and product management to ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Optimise and refactor code by leveraging the latest features of the iOS framework.
• Communicate any engineering challenges faced when supporting a wide range of devices.

Requirements

• Commercial experience using Swift or Objective-C, with real exposure to different platforms and OS versions.
• Experience working within a Mobile Continuous Integration framework.
• Experience with Unit (XCTest) and Integration Testing.
• Experience in consuming a RESTful API.

Desirable:

• Experience with the VIPER architecture.
• Experience using SwiftUI.
• Experience with A/B testing and solving complex experiments.

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.