Engineering Manager, Pricing Buyer

We're looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our new Pricing - Buyer Value squad, part of our wider Pricing initiative within the Supply pillar. This is a brand‑new team, working closely alongside an established Pricing team already in place. Pricing shapes the success of sellers on Depop, and this team's work will have a real, visible impact on the experience millions of people have on our marketplace. You'll focus on the buyer side of the price experience: offers, deals, and helping buyers feel confident they're getting great value on secondhand fashion. You'll partner closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer, collaborate with ML, and manage a cross‑functional team of iOS and backend engineers. You'll be accountable for the squad's delivery, health, and effectiveness. We work with an experimentation culture and a data‑driven approach, and you'll help the team learn and iterate quickly through measurement.

This role suits an Engineering Manager who is excited to build a team from the early days, cares deeply about delivery and team effectiveness, and wants to do it in a high‑performance, high‑compassion environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value and drive results. Be accountable for the squad’s day‑to‑day delivery, ensuring work is well‑scoped, sequenced, and shipped with a strong quality bar.
• Drive a delivery cadence that balances impact, speed, and long‑term maintainability, and that aligns clearly with business and product goals and metrics.
• Collaborate across functions. Partner closely with Product, Design, Product Analytics, ML, and the wider Pricing initiative to align on priorities, define what matters, and keep work moving across differing perspectives.
• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Help establish a new team. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan against a roadmap, establish strong ways of working, and surface risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs early.
• Lead and support your engineers. Line‑manage a cross‑functional team of iOS and backend engineers (typically 4 to 6), creating an environment where people can do their best work.
• Foster growth and feedback. Be accountable for your engineers’ performance and career growth, providing regular feedback, coaching, and clear expectations through 1:1s and continuous support.
• Build an inclusive culture. Foster a respectful, inclusive team culture that supports learning, continuous improvement, and a sustainable pace, and that holds a high bar for performance and impact.

Qualifications

• Have experience as an Engineering Manager growing high‑performing engineers, teams, and processes, and are excited by the chance to build a new team.
• Care deeply about delivery and team effectiveness, and get satisfaction from helping teams ship high‑quality work that drives measurable business impact.
• Have a solid engineering background and can work across the full stack, leaning on your technical judgement to provide the connective tissue between backend and frontend and uphold high engineering standards.
• Make strong decisions based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or shifting priorities, with a preference for simplicity and a bias towards delivery.
• Build strong relationships across Product, Design, ML, and other stakeholders, and can navigate differing goals to reach results that work for everyone.
• Lead with empathy and clarity, giving feedback, coaching, and support while maintaining a high bar for performance.
• Have a healthy, curious approach to AI: comfortable introducing AI tools into the team’s day‑to‑day, and able to lead the team in adopting them safely and well rather than shying away from them.
• Align with our Depop values: showing up for the community, having each other’s backs, acting with purpose, and thinking thrifty with sustainability and cost in mind.

Bonus Points If You

• Are familiar with any of Swift (iOS), Scala, or TypeScript.
• Have worked on commercially sensitive parts of a marketplace or e‑commerce product.
• Are comfortable with experimentation and impact validation, such as A/B testing.
• Are familiar with observability, tracking, and data pipeline tools and methodologies.
• 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!

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.