Engineering Manager, Account Security in London

Overview

Engineering Manager – UK based, leading the Account Protection squad focused on securing Depop users’ accounts against takeovers, automated abuse, scraping and other threats.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and develop a squad of 5‑7 engineers.
• Help establish Account Protection as a clear and effective capability at Depop.
• Own the team’s delivery, health, and product outcomes.
• Create clarity around priorities, sequencing, risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs.
• Stay close to technical direction, architectural decisions, and engineering trade‑offs without needing to own every technical decision.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Security, Marketplace, Trust & Support, and operational teams.
• Make risks, dependencies, and decisions visible early, so the right support and alignment are in place.
• Build an inclusive team culture where people can contribute, learn, challenge ideas respectfully, work through disagreement constructively, and grow.

Qualifications

• Experience managing, coaching, or developing engineers.
• A strong software engineering background with comfort engaging with technology, architecture, and technical trade‑offs.
• Strong ownership of team health, delivery, and product outcomes.
• Ability to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Collaborative leadership style with empathy, clear communication, and the ability to work through disagreement constructively.
• Motivation to protect users and help make online communities safer.
• Preferred Optional Experience
• Authentication and account access: login flows, session management, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, Web Authn/passkeys, device trust, account recovery.
• Account protection: account takeover prevention, suspicious login detection, credential stuffing prevention, risk‑based authentication.
• Bot and scraping mitigation: bot detection, bot mitigation, scraping prevention, abuse prevention, rate limiting.
• Edge‑layer protection: Cloudflare Bot Management, WAF, Turnstile, rate limiting, CDN or traffic‑protection tooling.
• Reliable production systems: observability, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, experimentation, incident learning, operating systems where reliability matters.

Benefits

Depop offers flexible working, inclusive parental leave, mental health support, learning budgets, volunteering time, and benefits designed to support people inside and outside work.

• Health and mental wellbeing: cash plan or PMI, subsidised counselling and coaching, employee assistance programme.
• Work/life balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over, impact hours up to 2 days paid leave for volunteering.
• Flexible working: Hybrid model with Flex, Office‑Based and Remote options.
• Childcare and parental leave: 18–20 weeks paid parental leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave, paid emergency parent/carer leave.
• Professional development: learning budgets, conference sponsorships, year‑end performance reviews.
• Other perks: paid 4‑week sabbatical after 5 years, life insurance, pension match up to 6% of base salary, free banking via Depop Shop.
• Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage, civil partnership, or any other protected status.

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