Job Description

Company Description
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular 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\xe2\x80\x99s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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.


At Depop, machine learning is integral to our value proposition. We are looking for a Senior MLOps engineer to help level-up how ML solutions are delivered at Depop. As a Senior MLOps engineer you will be responsible for enabling our data scientists - currently spread across four product functions - to deliver value by providing platforms and services for ML model + feature development, deployment and monitoring. Do you find joy in providing tooling, services and platforms that help businesses untap the enormous value of machine learning? If so, this could be the perfect match. Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here -https://engineering.depop.com/ Responsibilities:

• Design and implement systems that can ensure continued improvements to deployments speed of data scientists
• Define, create and support the technical patterns data scientists use to deploy to production - including but not limited to: training/prototyping, feature management, model deployment, & model serving/endpoints - for real-time and batch implementations.
• Hold high standards for operational excellence; from running your own services to testing, monitoring, maintenance and reacting to production issues.
• Adding to a strong engineering culture, orientated on technical innovation, and professional development.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of successful end-to-end delivery of your projects; from scoping and translating business requirements into plans, to design, implementation and maintenance, whilst coordinating with other teams (and engineers).
• Experience with the core concepts of data science / ML workflows
• Experience working in a B2C product-based technical environment
• A strong sense of ownership, autonomy and a highly organised nature.
• Exemplary communication skills, especially in dealing with multiple stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP)

Technologies and Tools we use:

• Data science / MLOps tooling: e.g. Sagemaker, Databricks, TFServing and more
• AWS - IAM, S3, redis, ECS and more
• Python
• Terraform
• Shell scripting and related tooling
• Kubernetes
• Good working understanding of continuous integration/deployment tools and practices
• Experience with streaming and/or batch-based systems supporting data integrations to third-party platforms (e.g. using Kafka, Airflow, RMQ, etc.)

Additional Information
UK Benefits
Health + Mental Wellbeing

• PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Self Space 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
• Impact hours: At Depop, we offer all full-time employees up to the equivalent of 2 days additional paid leave per year to volunteer. We allocate this time in hours to help you engage with your community with ease and flexibility.

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\xe2\x80\x99 fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.