Senior API Platform PM – Developer Experience

Depop; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bupa health care

Counselling support

Cycle to Work

Employee Assistance Program

Sabbatical after 5 years

Dog-friendly offices

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

Depop is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Backend Enablement and API platform. You will focus on developer experience for internal engineers, identifying gaps before blockers and building a roadmap that scales across teams.

You will collaborate with engineering leads, platform teams, and product groups to align priorities and define measurable success metrics. You will shape technical solutions, ensuring APIs are intuitive, well-documented and performant, while balancing long-term

Qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Product Manager, ideally in an API or DB focused environment.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, including REST, versioning and auth patterns.
• Experience setting product strategy and vision with an engineering team, and communicating it clearly and consistently across engineering and stakeholder groups.
• A track record of building trusted relationships with engineering leaders and stakeholders, and using that influence to align priorities across teams you don’t directly manage.
• Experience defining performance and scalability based metrics.
• Able to communicate technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, reframing complexity so it is easy to understand.
• Able to articulate the value of technical initiatives in a user-centric way.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, vision and roadmap for Depop’s API platform and backend enablement space, and communicate it clearly and consistently across engineering and stakeholder groups.
• Treat our internal engineers as your users: deeply understand their workflows, pain points, priorities and mental models.
• Hold a high bar for technical solution design, making sure our APIs are intuitive, well-documented and performant, while balancing this against pragmatic delivery timelines.
• Identify gaps in our current services and capabilities before they become blockers, partnering closely with engineering, platform and product teams to understand what they’re trying to build next.
• Think several steps ahead, designing extensible solutions rather than one-off fixes and making deliberate trade-offs between short-term unblocks and long-term platform health.
• Work with engineering leads to sequence work and define success metrics such as adoption, latency, error rates and developer satisfaction.
• Communicate trade-offs and articulate the value of technical initiatives in a user-centric way to stakeholders who may not be technical.
• Shape technical solutions with engineers, without dictating implementation details unless they are material to the developer experience.

Skills

Technical Product Management

API product management

Stakeholder management

Clear communication

Performance metrics

Job description

Depop is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Backend Enablement and API platform. You will focus on developer experience for internal engineers, identifying gaps before blockers and building a roadmap that scales across teams.

You will collaborate with engineering leads, platform teams, and product groups to align priorities and define measurable success metrics. You will shape technical solutions, ensuring APIs are intuitive, well-documented and performant, while balancing long-term