Engineering Manager

Team:Engineering & Data

Location:London

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.

Life is about creating. That's why we're home to over 30 million artists, stylists, designers, sneakerheads — and you? We're the community-powered, circular-minded marketplace changing the world of online fashion. Now it's time to get inspired at Depop.

Responsibilities

Job description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Core API team. You'll be responsible for leading an experienced team at the very centre of the Depop platform, serving out the entities at the core of our user experience, such as images and products. The team are custodians of services written in Scala and Python, and being comfortable navigating different and complex domains is a must. You'll be central to building out the team's backlog by identifying new opportunities for investment, improvement, or simplification, and help the team to thrive by creating growth opportunities for them. You'll be trusted to lead the team through technical decision making, balancing the concerns of the business with the requirements of our underlying platform.

You'll be working with business partners and stakeholders from across the business, from our Technical Programme Managers to our Engineering Leadership Team. You'll work with our Production engineering teams to help them deliver value quicker through improvements to the developer experience of interacting with our core services. You'll work with our Data engineering teams to ensure that our data scientists have accurate and timely data to model to drive insights and recommendations. You'll work closely with our Infrastructure engineer teams to make sure our systems and services are up to date, available, performant, and secure, and continue to meet the needs of our growing business. Building a strong network of connections across the business will be key!

Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager within this team, you can expect to:

Lead and manage a cross-functional team of 3 engineers - your main responsibility will be making sure the people in the team are happy and set up for success, you are encouraged to stay hands-on, but this should not be the primary focus.

Be accountable for the performance of the team as a unit and the career growth of the engineers within the team. Have regular 1:1s and provide continuous feedback to the team members.

Work closely with diverse functions within the team across product, design, analytics and QA to ensure that your team is clear on goals and delivering value for our users.

Ensure that new engineers onboard successfully and have the greatest opportunity to excel at Depop and their careers.

Advocate for your team and engineering to raise awareness on team health, ensure inclusion, and drive positive change.

Establish and maintain an inclusive, respectful, and diverse culture to ensure that all voices are heard.

Collaborate with teams across the pillar and the organisation to ensure cohesion across projects and roadmaps.

Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for your team.

Qualifications

You are an Engineering manager in search of a new exciting opportunity, or you have the aspiration, enthusiasm, and empathy to begin your people management journey.

Can facilitate technical decision-making across multiple technical landscapes, having a passion for the technical aspects of your work, but can let engineers drive the details.

Experience building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users

Strong knowledge of systems design, within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP), as well as either Python, Java or Scala

Can explore and assess needs from a high-level perspective and make decisions based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals.

Can collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.

Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.

Passion for building a platform that is user-obsessed.

You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community, having each others backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.

Bonus points if:

You come from an e-commerce background.

You have previously worked in an App first business.

Worked with infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines, preferably with terraform.