Engineering Manager, Payments

Depop Limited - Nova; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI

Counselling and coaching

Cycle to Work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Depop is seeking a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead one of our Payments squads, owning the delivery of wallet balances, re-spend, withdrawals, refunds and tax capture. You will guide architecture decisions while delivering impact and shaping the squad's roadmap.

You will partner with a Product Manager and Product Designer within our transactional experience program, ensuring simple, efficient, and reliable payments for users.

Qualifications

• Engineering manager with a track record of growing high-performing teams.
• Strong Backend background, preferably JVM, leading technical direction.
• Experience in Fulfilment or Payments, integrating with Stripe/Paypal.
• Able to span full-stack, linking BE and FE for high standards.
• Owns delivery, drives ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Tackles complex problems with data-driven decisions.
• Skilled at cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Curious about AI and its application to daily work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value and drive results with the team, meeting business needs.
• Lead and support a cross-functional squad of 3-7 engineers.
• Foster growth through regular feedback and coaching.
• Collaborate with marketing, ops, analytics, engineering, product.
• Promote an inclusive culture and continuous learning.

Skills

Engineering mgmt

Backend (JVM)

Payments integration

Full-stack collaboration

Ownership & delivery

Problem solving

Stakeholder mgmt

AI curiosity

Job description

Company Description

Depop 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. Founded 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. Powered 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.

We 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. 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.

AI 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. 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 [e-mail].

Role

Depop is the resale destination for the next generation. We connect millions of buyers and sellers across 150+ countries, making it easy to buy and sell secondhand fashion. Our ambition is bold: 5x GMV growth by 2030, and payments is one of the most powerful levers to get there. We are looking for a UK based Engineering Manager to lead one of our two Payments squads. As Depop is a dual-sided marketplace that holds money, you’re not just building a checkout: you're working across wallet balances, re-spend, withdrawals, refunds, seller onboarding, and tax capture, each with different rules per market and making architectural decisions about how these payment flows are expressed. You will be expected to help guide your team while delivering a contribution to its impact and strategic roadmap, and be part of shaping our engineering culture of high performance. As an Engineering Manager at Depop, you will be responsible for the success, wellbeing and effectiveness of the team. You will work alongside a Product Manager and Product Designer with domain expertise as part of our wider Transactional Experience initiative focusing specifically on making sure transactions with Depop are simple, efficient and hassle-free for our users. You will manage all engineers in the team and be responsible for helping to create and executing on the team's roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value.
• Lead and Support Your Team: Manage a cross-functional team of 3-7 engineers (BE and iOS), 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.
• Foster Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team's performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, ops, analytics, engineering, and product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.
• Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.

Qualifications

• A proven track record as an Engineering manager of growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.
• Come from a strong Backend engineering background (preferably on the JVM), and are comfortable relying on your technical expertise to lead and guide the team from a technical perspective.
• You have previously worked in the Fulfilment or Payments spaces, and are experienced with dealing with and integrating with vendors such as Stripe and Paypal in this space.
• Enough experience to lead across the full-stack, and lean on your technical expertise and leadership to provide the connective tissue between BE and FE in order to uphold high engineering standards across all.
• Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery.
• You get huge satisfaction from tackling complex and ambitious problems, and delivering the highest quality features.
• 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.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to 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.
• A genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work.

Bonus points if

• You are familiar with any one of the following technologies : Scala, Java or Typescript.
• You are familiar with observability, tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies.
• You have previously worked in an App first business.

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 of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days of 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-dependent
• All offices are dog-friendly
• Family Life: For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
• Learn + Grow: Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
• Learning budget Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva

Depop Extras

• In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

Depop 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. Founded 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. Powered 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.

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