{"id":3719741,"url":"https://alion.io/job/depop-engineering-manager-trust-detection","title":"Engineering Manager - Trust Detection","company":{"id":51473,"name":"Depop","domain":"depop.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/depop","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.75,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":26,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Gemini","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T00:49:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Company Description\nDepop 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.\nFounded 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.\nPowered 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\nWe 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.\nWe’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.\nAI 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.\nIf, 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 .\nCompany Description\nDepop 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.\nFounded 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. From everyday essentials to vintage and designer finds, Depop brings together a wide range of affordable styles in one place. It’s a marketplace where anyone can clear out their wardrobe or build a business, explore their style, and take part in a more circular way to shop.\nAs part of eBay, we're continuing to invest in our platform, our people and our mission to build a more circular future for fashion.\nPowered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. For more information, visit our News Room here. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.\nWe 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.\nWe’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 .\nAI 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.\nThe Role\nDepop is looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Trust Detection team.\nTrust Detection’s team goal is to catch the bad content and behaviour before the Depop community gets hurt by it. That means fake listings, phishing messages, counterfeits, and the people behind them.\nWe’re a team of ML Scientists and Backend Engineers. We build, train and maintain our own models, and bring in third-party tools where they’re the better fit. We also build the platform that runs it all in production and acts on what it detects. We prioritise automation as much as we can, so moderators can focus on the hard calls. Every decision a model or a human makes becomes training data for the next one.\nOur signals are used across Depop, in listings, search, chat and account security. We want to catch bad actors at the account level rather than one listing at a time, step in in real time, and offer our risk scores as a service other teams can build on.\nYou'll manage the backend engineers on the team and form its leadership trio alongside the ML Manager and Product Manager. Together, you'll set direction, shape the roadmap and turn the team's mission into shipped, measurable impact.\n\nWhat you’ll do\nLead and grow the team\nManage, coach and develop a team of Backend Engineers through 1:1s, feedback, career growth and performance.\nBuild an inclusive, high-trust culture where ML and Backend Engineers work as one team, not two disciplines handing work over a wall.\nShape the team's hiring, onboarding and ways of working as it grows.\nBe one third of the leadership trio\nPartner with the ML Manager and Product Manager to set the team's direction, priorities and roadmap.\nOwn team delivery and health while the ML Manager leads on modelling approach and the PM on problem and outcome. Hold each other to a shared set of goals.\nOwn the technical direction of the trust detection platform, working with staff engineers and partner teams to deliver it.\nTurn strategy into a clear plan: break down ambiguous problems, sequence the work, and keep momentum high.\nDrive delivery and engineering quality\nHelp the team take models from experiment to reliable production systems, including real-time inference, monitoring and safe rollouts.\nStay close to architecture and technical trade-offs, especially as we build shared risk-scoring services used by other teams.\nLift engineering standards across both disciplines: testing, observability, cost, and operational excellence for systems that act on users.\nMake risks, dependencies and decisions visible early, so the right support and alignment are in place.\n\nWork across the business\nCollaborate and influence Trust & Safety Operations, Policy, Legal, Data and partner product teams who consume the team's signals.\nHelp the team balance user safety, fairness to genuine sellers, compliance obligations and speed, and explain those trade-offs clearly.\nChampion how we measure success: harm prevented, model precision and recall, and how often decisions are overturned.\nWhat we’re looking for\nWe’re looking for an engineering leader who combines technical depth, product judgement, and inclusive people leadership.\n\nYou’ll be a strong fit if you bring:\nExperience managing and developing engineers, ideally including senior engineers.\nA strong software engineering background, with the confidence to engage in architecture and technical trade-offs.\nExperience leading teams that run production systems, with a focus on reliability and quality.\nExperience working with, or a real appetite to learn how to lead, ML or data-heavy teams. You don't need to build models, but you should be curious about how they get from notebook to production.\nClear ownership of team health and delivery, and the ability to create momentum in ambiguous, fast-changing problem spaces.\nA collaborative style in a shared-leadership model: you're comfortable with healthy disagreement and making decisions together.\nThe confidence to challenge engineers, ML, product partners and stakeholders constructively.\nMotivation to protect people and help build trusted online communities.\nWe know great Engineering Managers don't always match every line of a job description. If this role excites you, we'd love to hear what you'd bring.\n\nHelpful experience, not dealbreakers\nWe don't expect one person to bring all of this. Adjacent experience and curiosity are just as valuable.\nML in production: MLOps, model serving, real-time inference, feature pipelines, retraining or monitoring for drift.\nDetection and risk: trust and safety, fraud, abuse, spam, content moderation or marketplace integrity.\nPlatform thinking: building shared services or APIs that other teams depend on.\nMeasurement: experimentation, shadow testing, golden-set evaluation or other ways of proving a model's real-world impact.\nCross-functional delivery: working with Operations, Policy, Legal, Compliance or Security partners.\nWhat’s in it for you\nYou'll lead a young, high-impact team at an exciting point. Trust Detection is a growing team with a lot still to build, so there’s plenty of room to make a big impact and grow with it. You’ll shape how we scale: catching bad actors at the account level, acting in real time, and building a risk platform the rest of Depop relies on. You’ll work where ML, engineering and real user impact meet, with strong support from your trio partners, the wider Trust & Support group and engineering leadership.\nAdditional Information\nHealth + Mental Wellbeing\nPMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa\nSubsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space\nCycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative\nEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support\nMental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting\n\nWork/Life Balance:\n25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days\nImpact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering\nFully 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.\nFlexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent\nAll offices are dog-friendly\nFamily Life:\nFor birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees\nFor non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees \nIVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave\nLearn + Grow:\nTwice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews\nLearning budget\nUpskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources\nYour Future:\nLife Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)\nPension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva\nDepop Extras:\nIn-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.\nSpecial milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!","description_format":"text","description_chars":11768,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Marketplaces","Secondhand"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T02:18:52Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; 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