Engineering Manager

DEPOP
London
1 month ago
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In 2025 our ambition is to be a high-performing, delivery-focused organisation and the best engineering organisation for those who value meaningful career growth.

We are looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to run one of Depop's most cross-functional and high impact teams - Adtech. You will be expected to help guide your team while delivering a contribution to its impact and strategic roadmap, and be part of crafting our engineering culture of high performance and high compassion.

As an Engineering Manager at Depop, you will be responsible for the success, wellbeing and efficiency of the team. You will work alongside a Product Manager with Adtech domain expertise as part of our wider Growth initiative focusing specifically around our AdTech capabilities to improve paid marketing efforts.

You will lead engineers in the team and be responsible for crafting and executing on the team's roadmap. You'll report into the Senior Engineering Manager in the Growth pillar.

Responsibilities:

  1. Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and crafting measurable value.
  2. Lead and Support Your Team: Run a multi-functional team of 3-6 engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success. While encouraged to stay hands-on, your primary focus will be on enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.
  3. Cultivate Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for performance and the career growth of your team members, providing regular feedback and mentorship through 1:1s and continuous support.
  4. Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth multi-functional collaboration.
  5. Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.

You'll be an excellent fit if you have:

  1. Experience as a people manager in growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.
  2. Good MarTech experience, with an understanding of the advertising ecosystem, including product catalogues, ad conversion data, targeting and measurement, as well as the changing privacy and compliance landscape.
  3. A data engineering background, or working experience with data technologies such as Databricks, Spark, Kafka, SQL and Airflow.
  4. A strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery. You get huge satisfaction from solving complex problems, and delivering the highest quality features.
  5. Strong decision-making skills, based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals, with preference towards simplicity and a strong bias towards delivery.
  6. Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.
  7. Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.
  8. You align with our "Depop DNA" - showing up for the community, having each other's backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.

Bonus points if:

  1. You are familiar with any one of the following technologies: Scala, Python Swift (iOS), React or Typescript.
  2. You are familiar with observability, tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies.

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!

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