Engineering Manager - Web Platform

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at www.depop.com 

Our mission is to make fashion circular and 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.

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]. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

We’re looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Web Platform squad. This team’s dual mission is to help scale our web platform to keep up with our rapid user growth with millions of monthly active users, and improve the developer experience by enabling our engineers to ship more with less code and less cognitive overload.  

Key challenges you’ll be leading the team through include: how to ensure stability, security and scalability of the web platform, supporting the adoption of Typescript and node in Depop’s backend and building great developer tooling and paved paths to make engineering easier.

This is a great opportunity to combine strong technical leadership and knowledge with real business impact: managing the team that is building the systems that power Depop’s growth, while shaping the future of how fashion resale reaches the world. Success looks like: scalable, reliable web platforms; empowered engineers; and measurable improvements in developer velocity and user experience.

What you’ll do

• Deliver high impact solutions
  Lead your squad to ship high-quality, solutions that directly improve developer experience and effectiveness. You’ll own delivery and ensure your team’s work translates into measurable improvements.

• Lead and support your squad
  Manage a team of 3–6 senior engineers. Your focus will be on enabling them to perform at their best while fostering happiness, motivation, and resilience. Hands-on contribution is encouraged, but your superpower is leadership.​

• Collaborate across functions
  Partner with engineering, product, marketing, and data to understand your users, define priorities, align on goals, set strategic objectives and create a technical roadmap.​

• Shape culture
  Champion inclusion, diversity, and team health. Foster a culture of curiosity, respect, and continuous improvement, aligned with Depop’s values and community-first DNA.

What we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you have some of the following:

• A track record as an Engineering Manager building high-performing teams, delivering impactful roadmaps, and growing engineers.

• Experience designing and evolving scalable, reliable platform architectures, balancing concerns such as developer experience, security,  performance, and maintainability.

• Background in web engineering with technologies like Nodejs, Next.js, Typescript and React.

• Passion for improving developer productivity, building tooling, frameworks, and paved paths that help other teams move faster and safer.

• A strong sense of ownership and delivery mindset - you love solving complex problems across domains, and making a big impact.

• Great decision-making skills under ambiguity, with a bias towards simplicity and execution.

• Excellent stakeholder management: aligning diverse goals to deliver outcomes everyone’s proud of.

• Alignment with our Depop DNA - showing up for the community, having each other’s backs, acting with purpose, and keeping sustainability and thrift front of mind.

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!