Overview
Data Engineer role in Depop's AdTech team, a product enablement group focusing on backend, infrastructure, and data that primarily support paid marketing teams. The goal is to provide a robust, scalable, and efficient data foundation for marketing services and to accelerate the paid marketing team’s ability to acquire new users and drive GMV.
As a Data Engineer, you will shape the data roadmap, empower marketing teams with reliable, high-quality data, and contribute to a vibrant data culture with self-service capabilities and impactful insights.
What You’ll Do
- Drive significant impact – Take ownership of highly impactful and complex marketing data initiatives, contribute to the team’s long-term roadmap, and see projects through to successful delivery.
- Shape our data foundations – Build and maintain central data marketing models that power insights, marketing pipelines, and machine learning applications.
- Deliver reliable pipelines – Design, develop, and run production-ready data pipelines that ensure high-quality, trusted data for marketing and insights teams.
- Work with modern tools – Use our stack to create scalable models and workflows that support decision-making across the business.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven delivery skills - You’ve taken projects from idea to production, partnering with business teams, scoping requirements, and owning solutions end-to-end.
- Strong technical toolkit - You’re confident with SQL, Python, and modern data tools (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Looker), and you know how to design scalable, cost-effective, and well-governed pipelines.
- Collaboration & communication - You document clearly, plan effectively, and work closely with other engineers, analysts, and marketers to make data accessible and impactful.
- MarTech & customer data experience - You’ve worked with event streams, customer journeys, and marketing/advertising platforms and technologies (e.g., Google Ads, Meta CAPI, CDPs and CMPs), with an eye on attribution, privacy, and compliance.
- Engineering mindset – You value CI/CD, observability, and integration across the stack, and you’re curious about real-time processing (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.) as a bonus.
Additional InformationHealth + Mental Wellbeing
- PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
- Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
- Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
- Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
Work/Life Balance
- 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days
- 1 company-wide day off per quarter
- Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering
- Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop
- Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options (role dependant)
- All offices are dog-friendly
- Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
Family Life
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
- IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
Learn + Grow
- Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more
- Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
Your Future
- Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings
Depop Extras
- Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.
- Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!
EEO statement: We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.
If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please email with your name, the role you would like to apply for, and the type of support you need. For other questions, contact our Talent Partners.
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Job location: London, England, United Kingdom
