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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 .\nAbout the role\nDepop is looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Trusted Community squad.\nThe team’s mission is to create a community of trusted users by keeping people safe and giving them a clear path to success.\nFor Depop users, trust means being able to trust what they see, transact with confidence, feel protected and fairly treated, and know that positive participation is recognised.\nTrusted Community is a well-established cross-functional squad made up of backend and iOS engineers, working closely with a dedicated Product Manager and Product Designer. The team builds the user education, trust signals, controls, and interventions that help Depop feel safe, fair, and trusted.\nThe work includes areas such as user guidance, risk-based controls, age verification, gating, listing review, message interventions, account-level controls, and other compliance-sensitive experiences. This is a complex and fast-changing space, where the team needs to move quickly, learn fast, and make thoughtful trade-offs across user experience, technical quality, fairness, compliance, and legal obligations.\nThis role is well suited to an Engineering Manager with a strong software engineering background, strong product judgement, and the confidence to engage deeply with technical direction when needed. Direct experience in trust, safety, compliance, marketplace integrity, or similar spaces would be valuable, but we also highly value candidates who have led strong product engineering teams, especially experiment-led squads building user-facing systems.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead, support, and develop a cross-functional squad of backend and iOS engineers.\nOwn the team’s delivery, health, and product outcomes.\nHelp the team create clarity in a complex and evolving problem space.\nDrive progress at pace, with a strong focus on learning, iteration, and measurable impact.\nStay close to technical direction, architecture, and engineering trade-offs.\nDive into technical detail when needed, while enabling senior engineers to lead on implementation and technical design.\nChallenge assumptions constructively across Engineering, Product, Design, and stakeholder groups.\nHelp the team make balanced decisions across user safety, fairness, usability, compliance, legal obligations, technical quality, and delivery.\nMake risks, dependencies, and decisions visible early, so the right support and alignment are in place.\nBuild an inclusive team culture where people can contribute, learn, challenge ideas respectfully, and grow.\nWhat we’re looking for\nWe’re looking for an engineering leader who combines technical depth, product judgement, and inclusive people leadership.\nYou’ll be a strong fit if you bring:\nExperience managing, coaching, or developing engineers.\nA strong software engineering background, with confidence engaging in technology, architecture, and technical trade-offs.\nStrong ownership of team health, delivery, and product outcomes.\nThe ability to create momentum by clarifying next steps, unblocking decisions, and helping teams make progress.\nComfort working in ambiguous or fast-changing problem spaces.\nThe confidence to challenge engineers, product partners, and stakeholders constructively.\nThe judgement to balance speed of learning with responsible delivery in sensitive user-facing areas.\nA collaborative leadership style, with empathy, clear communication, and the ability to work through disagreement constructively.\nMotivation to protect users and help build trusted online communities.\nWe know great Engineering Managers do not always match every line of a job description. We value different paths into engineering leadership and are interested in the strengths, judgement, and perspective you would bring to the team.\nA genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work\nHelpful experience, not required\nAny experience in the areas below would be useful, but we do not expect one person to bring all of it. Adjacent experience, sound judgement, and curiosity for the Trusted Community space are also valuable.\nTrust and safety product experiences: user education, trust signals, safety prompts, warnings, restrictions, appeals, or other features that help people participate safely and fairly.\nRisk-based controls and interventions: controls that adapt based on user behaviour, risk signals, account state, eligibility, verification level, policy requirements, or marketplace context.\nAge assurance and compliance-sensitive experiences: age verification, age estimation, youth safety, safeguarding, gating, or related user journeys.\nExperiment-led product engineering: leading teams that use data, experimentation, measurement, and iteration to improve user-facing outcomes.\nComplex user-facing systems: building systems where reliability, fairness, privacy, user experience, and operational impact all matter.\nCross-functional delivery: working with Product, Design, Policy, Legal, Operations, Trust and Safety, Security, or Compliance partners.\nWhat’s in it for you\nThis is an opportunity to lead an established team working on one of Depop’s most meaningful product areas.\nYou’ll help build experiences and platform capabilities that protect users, support genuine buyers and sellers, and strengthen trust in the Depop community. You’ll join a team with a strong existing context and have the opportunity to shape its next stage through people development, thoughtful delivery, clearer team practices, and high-quality execution.\nYou’ll also gain experience in a fast-moving trust and safety environment, where product, engineering, compliance, and user impact intersect. The work is challenging, but meaningful, with strong support from product, design, engineering, and senior leadership partners.\nDepop offers flexible working, inclusive parental leave, mental health support, learning budgets, volunteering time, and benefits designed to support people inside and outside work.\nDepop is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process.\nWe particularly welcome applications from women and people from underrepresented gender identities in 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":10131,"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":"2026-10-08T23:57:16Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"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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