Senior Data Scientist

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’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.

Role

Depop is looking for a talented Senior Data Scientist to join our Search & Ranking team in the UK. As part of the Search & Ranking team you will work alongside a Product Manager, Backend Engineers and other Data Scientists playing a key role in building state-of-the-art models to power Depop’s search engine and ranking across the app.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Research, design and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems within the search & discovery space such as learning-to-rank models, Vector Search and embedding models
• Understand requirements from various stakeholders across the business, designing machine learning solutions to solve business problems, such as:
• How can we surface relevant results for this search?
• How can we show users personalised results in real time?
• What is the right price for this user?
• Set up and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development
• Keep up to date with state-of-the-art research, contribute to Machine Learning groups, and apply new techniques for NLP, image processing, etc.
• Participate in team ceremonies (follow the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, product road mapping, etc)
• Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences
  

Skills And Experience

• Experience working as a Data Scientist, with a track record of delivering models to solve industry-scale problem
• Experience working with search or recommendation models
• Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests
• Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write production-grade code and a good understanding of data engineering & MLOps
• Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with common frameworks such as sci-kit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with ML algorithms
  
  

Bonus points

• Experience with Databricks and PySpark
• Experience with deep learning & large language models
• Experience with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search frameworks (e.g. Elasticsearch)
• Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)
  
  

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
• 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’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.