Engineering Manager

Company Description

Depop 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, Depop’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 Depop 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, Depop 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 Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.
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We're looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our new Pricing - Buyer Value squad, part of our wider Pricing initiative within the Supply pillar. This is a brand-new team, working closely alongside an established Pricing team already in place.

Pricing shapes the success of sellers on Depop, and this team's work will have a real, visible impact on the experience millions of people have on our marketplace. You'll focus on the buyer side of the price experience: offers, deals, and helping buyers feel confident they're getting great value on secondhand fashion.

You'll partner closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer, collaborate with ML, and manage a cross-functional team of iOS and backend engineers. You'll be accountable for the squad's delivery, health, and effectiveness. We work with an experimentation culture and a data-driven approach, and you'll help the team learn and iterate quickly through measurement.

This role suits an Engineering Manager who's excited to build a team from the early days, cares deeply about delivery and team effectiveness, and wants to do it in a high-performance, high-compassion environment.

• Deliver value and drive results. Be accountable for the squad's day-to-day delivery, ensuring work is well-scoped, sequenced, and shipped with a strong quality bar. Drive a delivery cadence that balances impact, speed, and long-term maintainability, and that aligns clearly with business and product goals and metrics.
• Collaborate across functions. Partner closely with Product, Design, Product Analytics, ML, and the wider Pricing initiative to align on priorities, define what matters, and keep work moving across differing perspectives. Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Help establish a new team. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan against a roadmap, establish strong ways of working, and surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early.
• Lead and support your engineers. Line manage a cross-functional team of iOS and backend engineers (typically 4 to 6), creating an environment where people can do their best work. While you're encouraged to stay close to the technical detail, your primary focus is enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.
• Foster growth and feedback. Be accountable for your engineers' performance and career growth, providing regular feedback, coaching, and clear expectations through 1:1s and continuous support.
• Build an inclusive culture. Foster a respectful, inclusive team culture that supports learning, continuous improvement, and a sustainable pace, and that holds a high bar for performance and impact.

You'll be a strong fit if you:

• Have experience as an Engineering Manager growing high-performing engineers, teams, and processes, and are excited by the chance to build a new team.
• Care deeply about delivery and team effectiveness, and get satisfaction from helping teams ship high-quality work that drives measurable business impact.
• Have a solid engineering background and can work across the full stack, leaning on your technical judgement to provide the connective tissue between backend and frontend and uphold high engineering standards.
• Make strong decisions based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or shifting priorities, with a preference for simplicity and a bias towards delivery.
• Build strong relationships across Product, Design, ML, and other stakeholders, and can navigate differing goals to reach results that work for everyone.
• Lead with empathy and clarity, giving feedback, coaching, and support while maintaining a high bar for performance.
• Have a healthy, curious approach to AI: comfortable introducing AI tools into the team's day-to-day, and able to lead the team in adopting them safely and well rather than shying away from them.
• Align with our Depop values: showing up for the community, having each other's backs, acting with purpose, and thinking thrift with sustainability and cost in mind.

Bonus points if you:

• Are familiar with any of Swift (iOS), Scala, or TypeScript.
• Have worked on commercially sensitive parts of a marketplace or e-commerce product.
• Are comfortable with experimentation and impact validation, such as A/B testing.
• Are familiar with observability, tracking, and data pipeline tools and methodologies.
• Have previously worked in an app-first business.

Additional Information

Health + 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, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.

• 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!