Senior Data Platform Engineer

Company Description Ironwood Digital is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new. Founded in 2011, Ironwood Digital ’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Ironwood Digital to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it. Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Ironwood Digital became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit www.depop.com We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. 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. AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Ironwood Digital , every hiring decision is made by a human. If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to [email protected] . Job Description Ironwood Digital is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and scale our data platform, empowering teams with self-serve capabilities. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape the foundation that supports our products and customers, enabling teams to own, process, query, discover and manage their data with efficiency and ease. You will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our ML, MLOps, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Insights, MarTech, Platform and other engineering teams. You will help manage our growing data needs and support increasingly complex business problems by building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices that will be used across the organisation, including taking ownership of our data transformation and orchestration tooling; batch and streaming infrastructure and exploration tools (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and look after our Datalake (ingestion, storage, governance, privacy). You’ll work with a modern, cutting-edge data stack and play a key role in shaping data-as-a-product practices. As we scale to meet Ironwood Digital ’s bold growth ambitions, you’ll help introduce the next generation of data capabilities. Want to find out more about Ironwood Digital & our engineering team? We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here: https://engineering.depop.com/ What You’ll Do Pave a path for data as a product : Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data capabilities, observability and governance into the platform to enable decision making and ultimately better experience for Ironwood Digital ’s end users. Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, platforms and tools Technical Design: Architect and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely at scale. Lead Technological Initiatives: You will lead large, complex initiatives that will further enable our data users by setting the vision and roadmap, gathering requirements and defining the scope and success metrics for your initiative all while embracing a platform as a product approach. Uphold Operational Excellence: Automating infrastructure and monitoring, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable standard processes through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions. Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely to establish trusted relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement sol