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Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy.  Find out more at www.depop.com  Our mission is to make fashion circular and 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. 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 adjustments@depop.com. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

Job DescriptionDepop is looking for a versatile Senior Machine Learning Scientist to join our Search &amp; Ranking team in the UK. As part of the team you will work alongside a Product Manager, Backend Engineers and other ML Scientists playing a key role in building innovative models to power Depop’s search engine and ranking across the app.Responsibilities:You will:<ul><li>Research, design and deliver ML solutions to take on problems within the search &amp; discovery space:<ul><li>Learning-to-rank models</li><li>Vector search &amp; embedding models</li><li>etc.</li></ul></li><li>Understand requirements from various partners across the business, designing machine learning solutions to address business problems, such as:<ul><li>How can we surface relevant results for this search?</li><li>How can we show users personalised results in real time?</li><li>What is the right price for this user?</li></ul></li><li>Set up and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development</li><li>Keep up to date with pioneering research, contribute to Machine Learning groups, and apply new techniques for NLP, image processing, etc.</li><li>Participate in team ceremonies (follow the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, product road mapping, etc)</li></ul>QualificationsSkills and experience<ul><li>Significant experience (3&#43; years) working as a Data Scientist, with a track record of delivering models to solve industry-scale problem</li><li>Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests</li><li>Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write production-grade code and a good understanding of data engineering &amp; MLOps</li><li>Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with common frameworks such as sci-kit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch</li><li>Collaborative and humble great teammate with an ability to work wimulti-functionalnal teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with ML algorithms</li></ul>  Bonus points<ul><li>Experience with Databricks and PySpark</li><li>Experience with deep learning &amp; large language models</li><li>Experience with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search frameworks (e.g. Elasticsearch)</li><li>Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)</li></ul>

Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Search

RoleWe’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer – Data Platform to be a key technical leader within the teams responsible for Depop’s data platform. You’ll drive the technical vision and implementation for our foundational data platform — from experimentation, event ingestion pipelines to our data lake, governance frameworks, and data observability and real-time analytics capabilities.You will work closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, backend teams, and product leaders, providing deep technical expertise to ensure our data systems are scalable, secure, observable, and enable innovation across the company.  Responsibilities<ul><li>Partner with stakeholders across Product, Data, and Engineering to translate strategic goals into well-architected, scalable platform capabilities.</li><li>Drive the technical design and implementation of core data platform components, providing hands-on coding and architectural leadership.</li><li>Define and evolve the technical roadmap for Depop’s modern data platform, ensuring reliable and scalable analytics.</li><li>Champion engineering excellence, setting high technical standards and advocating for best practices in system design, maintainability, performance, and privacy.</li><li>Lead efforts in data observability, governance, and privacy-by-design principles, ensuring their robust implementation across the organization.</li><li>Mentor and coach engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the team and fostering a culture of technical excellence.</li><li>Identify and address complex technical challenges and bottlenecks, proposing and implementing effective solutions.  </li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role in data infrastructure or platform at scale, ideally in a consumer or marketplace environment.</li><li>Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern data ecosystems — including extensive experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Beam and DBT.</li><li>Demonstrated success in designing, building, and operating data platforms at scale, encompassing both batch processing and real-time streaming architectures.</li><li>Expertise in data warehousing concepts, advanced ETL/ELT processes, and analytics engineering best practices.</li><li>Exceptional programming skills, particularly in Python, Scala, or Java, and deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).</li><li>Extensive experience working with privacy-sensitive datasets and implementing robust data observability and governance frameworks.</li><li>A strong technical background with a track record of hands-on architecture and development of complex data systems.</li><li>Ability to think strategically and pragmatically: you can define long-term technical strategies and execute rapidly.</li><li>Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you’re comfortable influencing technical direction and aligning diverse stakeholders across the organization.</li></ul>  Bonus points:<ul><li>Experience with machine learning infrastructure or ML Ops practices.</li><li>Familiarity with event-driven architectures in a mobile-first product environment.</li><li>Prior work in fashion, marketplaces, or sustainability-driven tech.</li></ul>

Staff Backend Engineer - Data Platform

<h2>Role</h2>Depop is looking for a dedicated Machine Learning Engineer to join our new Core ML team in the UK. You will work alongside ML Scientists, Backend Engineers, and MLOps to build, deploy, maintain, and monitor machine learning infrastructure, such as product matching pipelines, image embedding services, and lightweight classifier deployments, that support multiple product and marketing use cases across Depop.<h2>Responsibilities</h2>You will:<ul><li>Design and implement pipelines for training, deploying, and monitoring real-time and batch ML models</li><li>Work closely with ML Scientists to productionise models and improve reliability, latency, and observability</li><li>Partner with backend and product teams across Depop to define integration requirements and coordinate deployments of shared ML components</li><li>Help design and extend the ML platform at Depop in collaboration with the MLOps team, across areas such as:<ul><li>Robust prototyping and training workflows</li><li>CI/CD for model deployment</li><li>Real-time and batch model serving</li><li>Online/offline feature consistency via our feature store</li><li>Monitoring and alerting</li></ul></li><li>Hold high standards for operational excellence, including testing, monitoring, maintainability, and incident response</li><li>Contribute to a strong ML engineering culture focused on scalability, collaboration, and continuous learning</li></ul>Required Skills and Experience<ul><li>Proven track record of building and deploying ML pipelines and contributing to ML platform tooling</li><li>Solid understanding of ML workflows and experience supporting scientists through to production</li><li>Strong ownership mindset and ability to work independently</li><li>Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Experience designing systems in modern cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCP)</li></ul>Technologies and Tools<ul><li>Python</li><li>ML and MLOps tooling (e.g. SageMaker, Databricks, TFServing, MLflow)</li><li>Common ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)</li><li>Spark and Databricks</li><li>AWS services (e.g. IAM, S3, Redis, ECS)</li><li>Shell scripting and related developer tooling</li><li>CI/CD tools and best practices</li><li>Streaming and batch data systems (e.g. Kafka, Airflow, RabbitMQ)</li></ul>

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Depop Payments plays a critical role in driving growth and presents significant opportunities for innovation as we work towards our mission to &#34;Make Fashion Circular.&#34; We are seeking a Senior Payments Operations Manager to collaborate across departments and with external partners to deliver value to our users. This role will focus on driving impact across the payments process through cost optimization, improving conversion, ensuring tax compliance, and delivering a safe, seamless and reliable payments experience. The ideal candidate will bring a strategic mindset to payments operations while balancing technical execution with a deep understanding of the user experience.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Payment Optimization &amp; Analysis: Oversee and optimize Depop’s payment processing solutions to drive margin improvements. Monitor payment acceptance metrics, identify optimization opportunities, and implement strategies to enhance conversion rates and reduce friction.</li><li>Vendor Management: Assist in the evaluation and ongoing management of Payment Service Providers (PSPs), maintaining strong partnerships and ensuring service excellence.</li><li>Fraud Prevention &amp; Operational Efficiency: Collaborate with the fraud team to develop solutions addressing payments fraud, including fraudulent chargebacks and bad recoupment. Work with cross-functional teams to identify operational pain points, prioritize solutions, and improve the user experience and overall payment processes and efficiency, thereby enhancing trust with users.</li><li>Payment Methods &amp; Industry Trends: Partner with Finance and Product to assess new payment methods and identify integration opportunities. Stay informed about payment industry trends, collaborating with Product to incorporate emerging opportunities into future plans.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance &amp; Tax Management: Collaborate with Legal, Tax, and Finance teams to track evolving tax and regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance and evaluating associated risks and benefits. Lead the operational execution of tax season across all relevant markets, ensuring compliance with local regulations and efficient processing.</li></ul>Required Skills &amp; Experience: <ul><li>Experience managing PSP (Payment Service Provider) relationships e.g. Stripe, or working in a PSP in an operational role </li><li>Deep understanding and passion for payment optimisation, with a strong focus on enhancing the user experience throughout the payment process</li><li>Sound knowledge of payment systems and technology as well as keeping up to date with relevant innovations in the field</li><li>Skilled at collaborating cross functionally with product management/ in a product-led organisation </li><li>Strong analytical mindset with the ability to measure, optimize, and continuously improve payment performance, ensuring that metrics align with business goals.</li><li>Exceptional ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders through clear, concise, and persuasive written and verbal communication skills.</li></ul>Desired Skills &amp; Experience: <ul><li>Experience working at an online peer-to-peer marketplace in a Payments operations capacity.</li></ul>

Senior Payments Operations Manager

<h2>Role</h2>The Analytics Engineering team works across all data domains to support our internal partners in building high-quality, ready-to-use datasets. As a Senior Data Engineer, you&#39;ll play a pivotal role in crafting our data landscape, empowering teams across the organization with reliable, high-quality data. You&#39;ll contribute to a vibrant data culture, encouraging self-service capabilities and driving impactful insights.<h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Build and champion central data models that are used in Insights, ML and Search pipelines</li><li>Design and deliver robust data pipelines that deliver high-quality data for partner teams, such as insights, finance, ML, and operations</li><li>Build data models using our data stack, including Databricks, AWS, dbt, Airflow and Looker</li><li>Lead technical initiatives and be responsible for their success.</li><li>Improve our engineering efficiency by developing our internal tooling, CI/CD practices, and alerts/logging</li><li>Foster growth and capabilities in our junior engineers through mentoring, and support our data consumers in building their own models</li><li>Cultivate a collaborative data culture that empowers self-serve data and model creation</li></ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul><li>Consistent track record of successful end-to-end delivery of projects; from partnering with business teams, scoping requirements, to implementation and maintenance</li><li>Experience aligning analytics engineering initiatives to a broader vision and to business objectives</li><li>Good stakeholder management and communications, including documentation, planning and delivery management</li><li>Strong programming skills in SQL and Python, with experience in services like Airflow, dbt and Looker</li><li>Proficient with data engineering methodologies, data warehousing and data design, including performance and cost optimisation, observability and monitoring</li><li>Experience working with and integrating different parts of the data stack.</li><li>You&#39;ve used BI tools, such as Looker, in a platform engineering capacity, helping to enable data scientists to build data models and self-serve analytics to business consumers</li><li>Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions or Jenkins</li><li>Experience using Terraform</li></ul>

Senior Data Engineer

The Recommendations team builds models that power discovery at Depop, helping millions of users find items that they will love. As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you’ll set the technical vision for our next-generation recommendation models, lead high-impact initiatives, and mentor others to drive innovation at scale.ResponsibilitiesYou will:<ul><li>Lead the design and deployment of advanced recommendation systems, encompassing encoder-based architectures, vector representations and large-scale retrieval.</li><li>Mentor, coach, and set technical direction within the Recommendations team, helping others grow and innovate.</li><li>Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (product, engineering, data) to define problems, translate them into scalable solutions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.</li><li>Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of ML projects: from ideation, data acquisition, feature engineering, training, and evaluation to deployment and ongoing iteration.</li><li>Drive innovation in recommendation systems by researching and integrating emerging ML techniques, frameworks, and tooling, while contributing technical expertise to long-term product and data strategy.</li><li>Act as a thought leader in the recommendations space, sharing learnings internally, engaging with the wider ML community, and showcasing our work externally.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Proven track record in designing, deploying, and optimizing large-scale recommendation systems, including candidate retrieval and ranking models, with measurable impact in production environments.</li><li>Deep understanding of machine learning fundamentals and applied experience with architectures including collaborative filtering, deep learning, and hybrid recommendation approaches.</li><li>Proven ability to productionize ML models and pipelines: from prototyping to de</li><li>ployment, with strong experience in monitoring, iteration, and troubleshooting.</li><li>Advanced programming skills in Python and familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar.</li><li>Solid foundation in stats, experimental design, and working with offline/online evaluations in real-world settings.</li><li>Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers or scientists, with a track record of fostering team growth and technical excellence.</li><li>Excellent communication skills: able to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence decision making.</li><li>Committed to responsible AI practices, including attention to ethics, fairness, and inclusivity.</li></ul>

Staff Machine Learning Scientist (Recommendations)

The People, Culture &amp; Impact team’s mission is to deliver a mission-driven experience that empowers the People of Depop to do their best work. As Depop executes on its growth strategy, the People team is shaping a people strategy which will underpin this growth. The strategy (and the operations that underpin it) will ensure that Depop can grow scalably by building a culture of high performance and excellence, evolving organisational effectiveness and efficiency, and providing meaningful growth for our people. All the while, keeping the ‘uniquely Depop’ employee experience at the centre.As a Strategic People Partner, you will be partnering with Executive Team members and their leadership teams to design and deliver future-focussed people solutions which enable the business to achieve its bold ambition. You will lead delivery of all evergreen people processes, ensuring leaders understand and own their role through manager comms, awareness and training. You’ll also lead strategic people initiatives across the function which evolve and improve the employee experience and ensure we attract, develop and retain talent which will fuel Depop’s growth. Responsibilities:<ul><li>Work with Executive Team members and their leadership teams to translate the Depop strategy and functional plans into people strategies. </li><li>Oversee workforce planning, development, and retention strategies to ensure the business attracts, develops, and retains great talent.</li><li>Deliver evergreen people processes such as performance management, comp review and talent planning, always with an eye on evolving these to better fit our Depop culture and ambition. Work in partnership with the People team at Etsy to ensure Depop’s needs are considered.</li><li>Take a key leadership role in strategic initiatives, mobilising cross functional squads and driving forward projects which bring to life the mission-driven experience.</li><li>Collaborate with the Impact team to ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is fully embedded in people practices, holding the lens of equity and inclusion on everything we do, as well as proposing and delivering specific initiatives.</li><li>Collaborate with the People Experience team to ensure hiring strategies are aligned with business strategy.</li><li>Lead the employment engagement survey for your allocated functions, working with leaders to develop action plans to address feedback. Partner with Internal Comms on the development of an overall employee listening strategy.</li><li>Collaborate with Etsy&#39;s Reward team to ensure our Depop pay philosophy and approach is competitive and aligns with the Depop strategy.</li><li>Identify learning and development needs and explore opportunities to support employees with personal development and career growth. </li><li>Utilise people metrics and analytics to inform strategic decisions, monitor trends, and measure the impact of people initiatives.</li><li>Serve as a point of escalation for leaders and the Employee Relations &amp; Advisory team to navigate and resolve complex workplace issues, ensuring a healthy and productive work environment.</li><li>Lead and support organisational change initiatives, partnering with leaders to ensure smooth transitions.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>Experience partnering with Executives and senior leadership teams to design and deliver people solutions to business challenges.</li><li>Practical understanding of  evergreen people processes such as performance review, compensation review and talent &amp; succession planning and experience in evolving them to meet business needs</li><li>A great grounding in employment law, ER and people policy developed through generalist HR experience.</li><li>Great relationship building and influencing skills, willing to challenge but with the capacity to listen, learn and show humility.</li><li>Exposure to organisational development, learning and development, engagement and talent initiatives.</li></ul>About you:<ul><li>Passionate about being close to, and understanding the business, always looking for opportunities to shape the people agenda to drive business performance. </li><li>Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to listen, question and create space for others.</li><li>Collaborative mindset, works flexibly with other teams across the People, Culture &amp; Impact team to ensure seamless support to leaders and their teams.</li><li>Proactive self-starter, driving things forward with light-touch direction: happy to do as well as to direct.</li><li>A team player with low ego; having the backs of teammates and being trusted to do the right thing for Depop.</li></ul>

Strategic People Partner

Data is at the heart of what we do.Depop is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and scale our data platform, empowering teams with self-serve capabilities. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape the foundation that supports our products and customers, enabling teams own, process, query, and manage their data with efficiency and easeYou will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech and other Data Engineering teams. You will help manage our growing data needs and support increasingly complex business problems by building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices that will be used across the organisation, including taking ownership of our data transformation and orchestration tooling; batch and streaming infrastructure and exploration tools (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and look after our Datalake (ingestion, storage, governance, privacy).You’ll work with a modern, cutting-edge data stack and play a key role in shaping data-as-a-product practices. As we scale to meet Depop’s bold growth ambitions, you’ll help introduce the next generation of data capabilities.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team?We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here - <a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank">https://engineering.depop.com/</a>  What You’ll Do<ul><li>Pave a path for data as product: Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data observability and governance tooling into the platform</li><li>Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, data pipelines </li><li>Technical Design: implement and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely, using modern tooling such as Kafka, Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native patterns</li><li>Lead Technological Initiatives: Lead initiatives working with end users: data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, product engineers and beyond to enable, support and accelerate their data needs, embracing a platform as product mindset.</li><li>Uphold operational excellence: building scalable services, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable best practices through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions. </li><li>Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our Data Platform. Trusted relationship will be key for success</li><li>Invest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.</li></ul><ul><li>Build on engineering culture You take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values</li></ul>What You’ll Bring<ul><li>Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components</li><li>Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) with solid foundation in software engineering best practices - testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, automation-first mindset</li><li>Experience delivering data compliance &amp; privacy solutions, ensuring that we uphold data subject rights for our customers</li><li>Experience introducing a data governance &amp; observability stack enabling rich data lineage, data contracts, SLA/SLO, tagging and data quality monitoring capabilities both on our own platform but also for data owners</li><li>Proven experience designing, building, and scaling data platforms and backend infrastructure in production environments - have worked to enable advanced data users:  ML Engineers, analysts, analytics engineers and have a strong grasp of their needs and how they operate</li><li>Big data technologies, with expertise in tools &amp; platforms such as Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Databricks and data observability &amp; catalogue) solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub)</li><li>Cloud Platform proficiency: familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure, with hands-on experience building scalable, reliable data solutions on cloud platforms</li><li>A passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field. We take pride in our learning and make sure to have dedicated time set aside for our growth and development (we offer personal development time and other platforms to share knowledge with your peers)</li></ul>Nice To Have<ul><li>Knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment </li><li>Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi</li></ul><ul><li>Experience working with lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks</li><li>Experience with experimentation support tooling (such as Optimizely)</li></ul>

Senior Data Enablement Engineer

Job DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced MLOps Manager to lead our growing MLOps function. You’ll manage a team of 8 engineers and specialists, set the strategic direction for how machine learning is developed, deployed, and scaled across Depop, and ensure we are delivering robust, secure, and scalable ML infrastructure.Our MLOps stack is modern, cloud-native, and carries very little tech debt, giving us the freedom to focus on building rather than firefighting. This role comes with a wide span of control and genuine strategic agency — you’ll be shaping the direction of how machine learning is built, deployed, and scaled across the business. Because Depop is deeply ML-driven, this position isn’t just about keeping the lights on; it’s central to how we deliver value to our users and to the business. You’ll be empowered to set best practices, influence architectural decisions, and ensure that our teams can move quickly while maintaining trust, reliability, and impact.This role combines technical leadership, vendor management, and strategic oversight, and will require you to work closely with engineering, product, and data leadership to ensure machine learning drives real impact for Depop and our community.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8 MLOps engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and growth.</li><li>Technical Leadership &amp; Decision-Making: Provide guidance on architecture, tooling, and best practices for ML pipelines, model deployment, monitoring, and incident management.</li><li>Collaboration with Applied ML Org: Partner closely with machine learning scientists, ML management, and cross-functional teams across the organisation to ensure MLOps solutions are aligned with scientific innovation, business priorities, and operational needs.</li><li>Strategic Direction: Define and deliver the MLOps strategy, aligning with Depop’s broader Data and Engineering roadmap.</li><li>Vendor Management: Oversee operational relationships with external vendors, ensuring service quality, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with team needs. Collaborate ​​with Vendor Managers on contract negotiations, renewals, and vendor evaluations to ensure optimal long-term partnerships.</li><li>Leadership Reporting: Provide clear, concise updates on progress, risks, and priorities in fortnightly leadership updates.</li><li>Incident Oversight: Act as an escalation point for ML/infra incidents, ensuring rapid resolution and learnings captured.</li><li>Cross-Org Collaboration: Engage proactively with the Data org (data science, data engineering, analytics) to ensure MLOps solutions meet evolving business needs.  </li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Proven experience leading an MLOps, ML Engineering, or Platform Engineering team.</li><li>Deep-rooted enthusiasm for Platform disciplines</li><li>A background in Applied Machine Learning</li><li>Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including provisioning and managing ML infrastructure at scale.</li><li>Strong understanding of GPU computing for training and serving ML models.</li><li>Experience designing and managing containerised ML workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, or similar orchestration frameworks), and integrating with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).</li><li>Familiarity with distributed data processing and ML training frameworks (e.g., Spark, Ray, TensorFlow Distributed, or PyTorch Distributed).</li><li>Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and observability for large-scale ML systems.</li><li>Knowledge of cost optimisation strategies for compute- and GPU-intensive workloads in cloud environments.</li><li>Excellent people leadership skills, with experience managing and developing engineering teams.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to set strategy and drive execution in a fast-paced environment. Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear updates to technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable engaging across multiple disciplines.  </li></ul>Nice to haves<ul><li>Experience managing vendors, contracts, and budgets.</li><li>Experience with Databricks, Tecton (or Feast), Seldon, SageMaker</li></ul>

MLOps Engineering Manager

Depop is looking for an experienced Web Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the Demand product pillar, with the mission of attracting and activating users arriving on Depop, by crafting seamless buying experiences.As a member of this multi-functional space, you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to build a smooth, quick, and trustworthy journey for our users, from the moment they land on the website.You’ll be responsible for the entire lifecycle of small/medium projects of moderate complexity in both our web app and web APIs. You’ll need to be comfortable dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity, proactively pulling in people at the right time. Your work will be pivotal in ensuring we facilitate excellent interactions between Depop and our customers on the platform. ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Web Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems and to craft solutions </li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation</li><li>End-to-end application support, including production incident management </li><li>Adopt agile methodologies and user-centred thinking</li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions</li><li>Collaborate daily with fellow engineers in the multi-functional environment to address problems and write code</li><li>Mentor and coach your colleagues</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Proven JavaScript skills, including concepts like asynchronous programming, promises, closures, types, and ES6</li><li>HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility</li><li>Experience in TypeScript, React and Node.js</li><li>Building automated tests using Javascript test frameworks</li><li>Experience consuming RESTful API services</li><li>Comfortable in using Git</li><li>Experience working collaboratively as part of an agile team in a product-focused business</li></ul>Nice To Haves<ul><li>Experience deploying web applications at scale</li><li>Experience writing RESTful API services, either in Javascript or TypeScript</li><li>Experience in Next.js and server components</li><li>Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>Experience of CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) and adopting DevOps with maintaining pipelines using Jenkins</li></ul>

Senior Web Engineer

Data is at the heart of what we do.Depop is looking for a Data Enablement Engineer to help architect, build, and scale our data platform, empowering teams with self-serve capabilities. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape the foundation that supports our products and customers, enabling teams own, process, query, and manage their data with efficiency and easeYou will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech and other Data Engineering teams. You will help manage our growing data needs and support increasingly complex business problems by building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices that will be used across the organisation, including taking ownership of our data transformation and orchestration tooling; batch and streaming infrastructure and exploration tools (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and look after our Datalake (ingestion, storage, governance, privacy).You’ll work with a modern, cutting-edge data stack and play a key role in shaping data-as-a-product practices. As we scale to meet Depop’s bold growth ambitions, you’ll help introduce the next generation of data capabilities.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team?We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here - <a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank">https://engineering.depop.com/</a>  What You’ll Do<ul><li>Pave a path for data as product: Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data observability and governance tooling into the platform</li><li>Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, data pipelines </li><li>Technical Design: implement and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely, using modern tooling such as Kafka, Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native patterns</li><li>Lead Technological Initiatives: Lead initiatives working with end users: data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, product engineers and beyond to enable, support and accelerate their data needs, embracing a platform as product mindset.</li><li>Uphold operational excellence: building scalable services, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable best practices through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions. </li><li>Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our Data Platform. Trusted relationship will be key for success</li></ul><ul><li>Build on engineering culture: You take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values</li></ul>What You’ll Bring<ul><li>Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components</li><li>Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) with solid foundation in software engineering best practices - testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, automation-first mindset</li><li>Experience delivering data governance compliance, privacy and data quality monitoring solutions, ensuring that we uphold data subject rights for our customers</li><li>Proven experience designing, building, and scaling data platforms and backend infrastructure in production environments - have worked to enable advanced data users:  ML Engineers, analysts, analytics engineers and have a strong grasp of their needs and how they operate</li><li>Big data technologies, with expertise in tools &amp; platforms such as Airflow, Kafka, Databricks and data observability &amp; catalogue) solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub)</li><li>A passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field. We take pride in our learning and make sure to have dedicated time set aside for our growth and development (we offer personal development time and other platforms to share knowledge with your peers)</li></ul>Nice To Have<ul><li>Knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment </li><li>Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi</li></ul><ul><li>Experience working with lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks</li><li>Experience with experimentation support tooling (such as Optimizely)</li></ul>

Data Enablement Engineer

Data is at the heart of what we do.Depop is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and scale our data platform, empowering teams with self-serve capabilities. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape the foundation that supports our products and customers, enabling teams own, process, query, and manage their data with efficiency and easeYou will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech and other Data Engineering teams. You will help manage our growing data needs and support increasingly complex business problems by building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices that will be used across the organisation, including taking ownership of our data transformation and orchestration tooling; batch and streaming infrastructure and exploration tools (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and look after our Datalake (ingestion, storage, governance, privacy).You’ll work with a modern, cutting-edge data stack and play a key role in shaping data-as-a-product practices. As we scale to meet Depop’s bold growth ambitions, you’ll help introduce the next generation of data capabilities.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team?We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here - <a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank">https://engineering.depop.com/</a>  What You’ll Do<ul><li>Pave a path for data as a product: Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data observability and governance tooling into the platform</li><li>Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, data pipelines </li><li>Technical Design: implement and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely, using modern tooling such as Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native patterns</li><li>Lead Technological Initiatives: Lead initiatives working with end users: data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, product engineers and beyond to enable, support and accelerate their data needs, embracing a platform as product mindset.</li><li>Uphold operational excellence: Automating infrastructure and monitoring, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable best practices through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions. </li><li>Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our Data Platform. Trusted relationship will be key for success</li><li>Invest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.</li></ul><ul><li>Build on engineering culture You take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values</li></ul>What You’ll Bring<ul><li>Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python) with a solid foundation in software engineering best practices - testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, CI/CD, automation-first mindset</li><li>Proven experience designing, building, and scaling data platforms and backend infrastructure in production environments - have worked to enable advanced data users:  ML Engineers, analysts, analytics engineers and have a good grasp of their needs and how they operate</li><li>Big data technologies, with expertise in tools &amp; platforms such as Airflow, DBT, Databricks and data observability &amp; catalogue) solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub)</li><li>Knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP), including AWS primitives such as IAM, S3, RDS, EMR, ECS and more</li><li>DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), IaC (Terraform)</li><li>A passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field. We take pride in our learning and make sure to have dedicated time set aside for our growth and development (we offer personal development time and other platforms to share knowledge with your peers)</li></ul>Nice To Have<ul><li>Experience introducing a data governance &amp; observability stack enabling rich data lineage, data contracts, SLA/SLO, tagging and data quality monitoring capabilities both for our platform and for customer data owners</li><li>Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi</li><li>Experience working with containerisation technologies - Docker, Kubernetes</li><li>Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components</li></ul><ul><li>Experience working with lakehouse/medallion architectures in Databricks</li></ul>

Senior Data Platform Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Content Designer to join our growing team at Depop. You’ll work across several squads in our Supply and Marketplace pillars, helping make Depop the easiest place for sellers of all kinds to turn their items into shoppable inventory. You’ll also support other experience areas as needed. You’ll bring content expertise, a user-focused mindset and a collaborative spirit to deliver impact, delight users and help shape the product that&#39;s making fashion circular.Responsibilities<ul><li>Own content end-to-end for your experience area(s) across the Depop apps (iOS &amp; Android) and Depop.com</li><li>Partner closely with designers, researchers, product managers and engineers to ship impactful work you’re proud of</li><li>Use feedback and user testing results to iterate effectively</li><li>Elevate content quality, defining what good looks like with your teams and providing guidance to non-writers, where necessary</li><li>Work with legal and regulatory teams to make sure content you write is compliant with industry standards and regulations, where necessary</li><li>Contribute to the evolution of content standards at Depop, including writing guidelines and content design best practices</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>You have a strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to write clear and engaging content for a variety of digital products and platforms</li><li>Strong experience as a UX Writer/Content Designer</li><li>Experience writing for a US audience, or localising your content</li><li>You’re able to balance key user needs with business objectives</li><li>You have a strong understanding of UX design principles and how content influences user behaviour and interaction</li><li>You’re able to justify your copy decisions with user research, competitor research or UX best practices</li><li>You have excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively individually and as part of particular squads where necessary</li><li>You have strong organisational skills and thrive in an environment that requires you to manage multiple projects, with several teams, simultaneously</li><li>You’re proficient in Figma and know when AI can and can’t help you produce your best work</li></ul>Heads up, this role probably isn’t for you if:<ul><li>Your experience is mostly in marketing content, advertising, copywriting or journalism – and you have no hands-on experience of content design or working in UX</li></ul>

Content Designer (12-month FTC)

The Vendor Manager will be responsible for managing outsourced customer service vendors to ensure they deliver high-quality support aligned with our company’s standards, SLAs, and customer experience goals. This role involves performance monitoring, relationship management, process optimisation, and ensuring contractual compliance. The Vendor Manager will serve as the primary point of contact between internal stakeholders and BPO partners, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.Key ResponsibilitiesVendor Relationship Management<ul><li>Serve as the main liaison between the company and outsourced BPO partners.</li><li>Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with vendor leadership teams.</li><li>Manage communication of business updates, policy changes, and process improvements.</li></ul>​Performance Monitoring &amp; Reporting<ul><li>Track vendor performance against defined SLAs, KPIs, and quality metrics.</li><li>Conduct regular business reviews (weekly, monthly, quarterly) with vendors.</li><li>Analyse performance data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.</li><li>Prepare executive-level reports on vendor performance and recommendations.</li></ul>​Contract &amp; Compliance Management<ul><li>Ensure vendors adhere to contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, and company policies.</li><li>Partner with Legal and Procurement teams on contract renewals, negotiations, and amendments.</li><li>Monitor compliance with data protection, security, and confidentiality standards.</li></ul>​Operational Excellence &amp; Process Improvement<ul><li>Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer experience.</li><li>Partner with internal teams (Quality Assurance, Training, Workforce Management) to address gaps.</li><li>Lead root cause analysis for operational issues and oversee corrective action plans.  </li></ul>Financial Oversight<ul><li>Monitor vendor billing accuracy and ensure adherence to budget.</li><li>Track and report cost savings and ROI from vendor performance improvements.</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Strong experience in vendor management, account management, or operations, preferably in a BPO/customer service environment.</li><li>Proven track record in managing multiple vendor relationships across geographies</li><li>Strong knowledge of customer service operations, metrics, and best practices.</li><li>Excellent negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.</li><li>Ability to work across time zones and in a fast-paced, evolving environment.</li><li>Results-driven with high attention to detail.</li><li>Strong communication and presentation skills.</li><li>Collaborative team player with a proactive approach.</li></ul>

Vendor Manager (12-Month FTC)

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead design for Depop’s Android app, creating best-in-class experiences for our buyers and sellers.You’ll own design across Android touch points – from browsing and discovery to selling and account management – ensuring our app feels intuitive, accessible, and distinctly “Depop” on Android. As part of a cross-functional squad, you’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to design experiences that balance user needs with Depop’s goals, while staying true to Android’s design language.This is a great role for a designer who thrives on mobile-first product challenges, understands the nuances of Android patterns and ecosystems, and wants to have a broad impact across both buyer and seller journeys.What you’ll do<ul><li>Execution &amp; Impact:  Lead end-to-end design for the Android app – exploring, prototyping, and delivering solutions from concepts to polished UI.</li><li>Project Management: Balance multiple projects, ensuring strong execution while tying your work to broader product strategy.</li><li>Collaboration &amp; Influence: Partner with product, engineering, and research to shape priorities, align stakeholders, and drive a clear vision for Android experiences.</li><li>User &amp; Business Focus: Champion seller needs while balancing Depop’s goals — using data and market insight to identify opportunities, test solutions, and deliver impact.</li><li>Leadership &amp; Growth: Share knowledge of mobile best practices, mentor peers, and contribute to a positive, collaborative design culture.</li><li>Craft Expertise: Apply strong craft and a deep understanding of Android design patterns, raising the quality and consistency of Depop’s mobile experience.</li></ul>About you<ul><li>Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX and UI design across mobile, with significant Android work.</li><li>Experience leading end-to-end product design processes, from research synthesis to prototyping and delivery</li><li>Skilled in Figma and proficient with prototyping tools </li><li>Strong understanding of Android UI patterns, Material Design, and platform-specific nuances.</li><li>Ability to translate research and insights into clear, compelling design decisions.</li><li>Confident in presenting work and influencing stakeholders with compelling but structured, evidence-based arguments.</li><li>(Nice to have) Experience designing for both Android and iOS, with a strong grasp of cross-platform consistency.</li><li>(Nice to have) Familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace products.</li></ul>Why join us?This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Depop for our Android user base. You’ll be part of a supportive, ambitious design team, working on problems that sit at the heart of Depop’s growth – empowering creative entrepreneurs and making fashion more circular.

Senior Product Designer, Android - 12 Month FTC

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer to join the Supply design team, dedicated to building experiences that help our top sellers thrive and grow their businesses on Depop.As part of a cross-functional squad, you’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape seller-facing products. You’ll play a key role in realising our north-star vision for high-volume sellers – designing solutions that support them in listing, managing, and growing their shops with ease.This role is perfect for a designer who thrives on solving complex service and product challenges, balancing user needs with business goals, and who enjoys scaling impact through collaboration and mentoring.What you’ll do<ul><li>Execution &amp; Impact: Lead design across seller experiences end-to-end — exploring, prototyping, and delivering solutions from early concepts to polished UI and specifications.</li><li>Project Management: Balance multiple projects, ensuring strong execution while tying your work to broader product strategy.</li><li>Collaboration &amp; Influence: Partner with product, engineering, and research to shape priorities, align stakeholders, and rally teams around a clear vision</li><li>User &amp; Business Focus: Champion seller needs while balancing Depop’s goals — using data and market insight to identify opportunities, test solutions, and deliver impact.</li><li>Leadership &amp; Growth: Mentor peers, share expertise, and contribute to a positive, collaborative design culture.</li><li>Craft Expertise: Apply advanced design skills across mobile and web, raising the quality bar and evolving our team practices.</li></ul>About you<ul><li>Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX and UI design across mobile and web.</li><li>Experience leading end-to-end product design processes, from research synthesis to prototyping and delivery</li><li>Skilled in Figma and proficient with prototyping tools </li><li>Ability to translate research and insights into clear, compelling design decisions.</li><li>Confident in presenting work and influencing stakeholders with compelling but structured, evidence-based arguments.</li><li>(Nice to have)Experience scaling complex flows across devices, e.g desktop dashboards and within mobile apps.</li><li>(Nice to have) Experience with service design methodologies, mapping end-to-end journeys across touchpoints and considering both frontstage and backstage experiences.</li><li>(Nice to have) Familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace dynamics. </li></ul>Why join us?This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Depop for our most engaged sellers. You’ll be part of a supportive, ambitious design team, working on problems that sit at the heart of Depop’s growth – empowering creative entrepreneurs and making fashion more circular.

Senior Product Designer, Supply - 12 Month FTC

Role:As a Senior iOS engineer at Depop you’ll work in one of our Product teams to add new functionality as well as improve existing features through a data driven A/B testing workflow. You will be working in Swift, alongside Backend and other iOS Engineers, leveraging our Mobile Continuous Integration pipeline, with Unit and Integration Testing built in, to iterate our iOS application used by millions of users.You will work in a small multidisciplinary product team that is supported by a much wider community of Depop iOS developers, insights teams, product managers and platform engineers.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team? Take a look at our blog! We write about technology, people and smart engineering -<a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank"> https://engineering.depop.com/</a>Responsibilities:<ul><li>Support the team to deliver weekly features/upgrades.</li><li>Take full ownership of the components the team ships to the iOS app. Monitor and resolve issues.</li><li>Support the A/B testing workflow and collaborate with the insights team to ensure high quality.</li><li>Work closely with the design, product management and backend teams to ensure that new features are implemented efficiently and effectively.</li><li>Refactor existing code to leverage the latest developments in the iOS framework.</li><li>Communicate any engineering challenges faced when supporting a wide range of devices.  </li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Commercial experience using Swift or Objective-C, with real exposure to different platforms and OS versions.</li><li>Experience working within a Mobile Continuous Integration framework.</li><li>Experience with Unit (XCTest) and Integration Testing.</li><li>Experience in consuming a RESTful API.</li><li>Prior experience mentoring junior developers  </li></ul>Desirable: <ul><li>Experience with the VIPER architecture.</li><li>Experience with A/B testing and solving complex experiments</li></ul>

Senior iOS Engineer

We’re looking for a UI Designer (12-month FTC) to join our Design System team. You’ll help shape and evolve Depop’s design language across platforms, creating high-quality, scalable UI components that empower product teams to deliver consistent, intuitive, and impactful experiences.This role is perfect for someone who thrives on detail, loves crafting systems, and can balance consistency with creativity.Responsibilities<ul><li>Contribute to Depop’s Design System: Create and maintain UI components, patterns, and documentation that support product teams across web and iOS and Android.</li><li>Craft high-quality UI: Deliver pixel-perfect visuals that balance usability, accessibility, and brand expression.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure components are consistent, functional, and easy to implement.</li><li>Support scalability: Identify opportunities to streamline and standardise UI, ensuring our design system supports future growth.</li><li>Champion consistency: Advocate for cohesive, system-led design across Depop’s surfaces.</li><li>Craft high-quality UI elements, animations, transitions, and microinteractions to enhance user engagement and delight. </li><li>Create designs that are optimised for different platforms, including iOS, Android, and responsive web, ensuring consistency across all touch points.</li><li>Comfortable presenting to larger audiences and senior stakeholders.</li></ul><div>Requirements<ul><li>Proven experience as a UI Designer, Visual Designer, or similar role working with digital products.</li><li>Strong portfolio demonstrating UI craft, attention to detail, and system-thinking.</li><li>Experience working with or contributing to a design system.</li><li>Proficiency in Figma (variants, components, libraries).</li><li>Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.</li><li>Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product designers and engineers.</li></ul>Nice to have (but not essential)<ul><li>Familiarity with tokens and design-to-code workflows.</li><li>Previous marketplace or e-commerce/fashion product experience.</li><li>Good understanding of motion principles.</li></ul></div>

Senior UI Designer (12-month FTC)

As a Staff Engineer at Depop, you&#39;ll be a technical leader, driving our engineering excellence and solving our most challenging problems. You&#39;ll work in Depop’s iOS Platform team and will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and leaders in the company, making high-impact decisions that accelerate engineering efforts, define the long-term technical direction for iOS at Depop, and align with our business strategy. Your iOS expertise will not only guide your team but also build followership across the wider engineering community, mentoring others and promoting a culture of high standards and quality.Want to find out more about Depop &amp; our engineering team? Take a look at our blog! We write about technology, people and smart engineering - <a href="https://workable.com/nr?l&#61;https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.depop.com%2F" target="_blank">https://engineering.depop.com</a>/Responsibilities:<ul><li>Contribute high-impact code and design well-documented software that boosts team productivity and ensures scalability.</li><li>Guide technical decisions for both engineering and non-technical stakeholders, preventing costly rework.</li><li>Act as a trusted advisor, mentoring engineers to improve their effectiveness and technical skills.</li><li>Act as a strategic partner to engineering and product leadership, providing a strong viewpoint on the architecture and development processes needed to enable the business to move faster and build more effectively.</li><li>Collaborate across teams and navigate sophisticated situations to foster strong partnerships.</li><li>Proactively identify and tackle ambiguous technical problems that improve team productivity and enhance system reliability.</li><li>Ensure platform health and implement high standards, leading swift incident resolution and minimising major incidents.</li><li>Promote a culture of high standards and accountability, leading by example and inspiring excellence.</li><li>Lead cross-functional initiatives to modernise the iOS app and improve developer velocity, collaborating with other teams to unblock and accelerate key business goals.&#34;</li><li>Drive technical guilds and working groups to share knowledge, build consensus, and deliver on the long-term iOS vision by bringing other engineers along on the journey.</li><li>Leverage deep domain expertise to define and champion the long-term architectural vision for the iOS application, guiding prioritisation in line with business goals and new advancements in the iOS space.</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical teams.</li><li>Proven track record of designing and delivering a long-term technical vision for complex, large-scale mobile applications.</li><li>Proven ability to lead technical decisions and drive projects to completion.</li><li>Experience mentoring and coaching developers at any level.</li><li>Experience identifying and driving solutions for ambiguous and complex technical challenges at scale, demonstrating a clear &#34;been there, done that&#34; perspective.</li></ul>Essential skills:<ul><li>Expert Swift/iOS engineer with deep knowledge of the platform; rigorous testing with XCTest and XCUITest</li><li>Building and maintaining modular mobile frameworks; dependency management with Swift Package Manager</li><li>Deep understanding of MVVM and VIPER; and dependency injection</li><li>Proficient with both UIKit and SwiftUI</li><li>Proficiency in CI/CD and release management process; TestFlight, phased rollouts, feature flags, A/B testing, crash analytics</li><li>App lifecycle, deep links/universal links, push notifications, background execution modes</li><li>Understanding operational and non-functional requirements (such as resilience, performance and observability) and how solutions are implemented and tested)</li></ul>Desirable experience:<ul><li>Design systems and reusable component libraries, design tokens, accessibility</li><li>Experience with tools such as Postman, Charles/Proxyman, Bitrise (or Xcode Cloud/GitHub Actions/CircleCI)</li><li>Comfortable with Agile methods (Scrum/Kanban) and iterative delivery</li><li>Experience working cross teams and cross platform, Android, Web, Backend</li></ul>

Staff iOS Engineer

Job DescriptionDepop is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional team in partnership with mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success.Responsibilities:As a Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Front-End and other Backend Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions.</li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Embrace agile methodologies</li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews etc. </li><li>Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code</li><li>You’ll own , code, workflows and data, through their entire lifecycle</li><li>Documenting any feature development</li></ul>Desired experience:<ul><li>Writing high quality code in Scala, Java, Kotlin or another JVM language</li><li>Experience building scalable applications serving 10,000s of requests per second</li><li>Relational databases, ideally Postgres</li><li>NoSql datastores (e.g. DynamoDB)</li><li>Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka)</li><li>DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)</li><li>Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.</li><li>Product-oriented mindset with a focus on solving real business problems rather than over-engineering solutions.</li><li>Experience with iterative development using A/B testing</li></ul>Must haves:<ul><li>Solid software engineering experience. Strong evidence that you can learn our TypeScript and Scala stack effectively</li><li>Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python</li><li>Proficient in testing solutions at different levels —unit, integration, etc—</li><li>Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB</li></ul>Bonus points:<ul><li>Experience with eCommerce</li><li>Experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using RabbitMQ or Kafka</li><li>Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform</li><li>Experience with Python</li><li>Experience with data engineering</li></ul>

Backend Engineer

We’re looking for a Product Data Scientist to join our Insights team. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and machine learning to deliver insights, drive experimentation, and shape the future of Depop’s product ecosystem.This role sits at the intersection of technical excellence and strategic impact. You will not only dive deep into data, pipelines, and experimentation frameworks, but also influence product direction, user experience, and commercial outcomes.What You’ll Do:Provide analytics for a core product area Work as the go-to data scientist for a product domain. Deeply understand user behaviour, measure performance and find opportunities to improve outcomes.Influence product and business strategyConnect your analyses to broader company goals. Help the product team understand trade-offs, challenge assumptions and drive evidence based decision making. Design and help evaluate experimentsDefine hypotheses, monitor A/B tests, and at times conduct post experiment analyses. Provide clear recommendations on rollouts or iterations.Work together with other teams to enable self-serve data driven decision makingCollaborate with product, platform and data teams to ensure scalable, accurate datasets for analysis. Develop dashboards and reporting that drive awareness and actionable insights.What We’re Looking For:<ul><li>Strong SQL skills and experience querying large, complex datasets</li><li>Basic understanding of Python</li><li>Familiarity with ETL workflows and debugging data issues</li><li>Proven experience with A/B testing design and interpretation</li><li>Hands-on experience with visualisation tools (Looker, Tableau, or similar)</li><li>Excellent communication skills—able to explain complex topics clearly and persuasively</li><li>Commercial mindset with the ability to balance user and business needs</li><li>Strong sense of ownership, highly organised, and proactive</li><li>Comfortable working across ambiguity and fast-changing environments</li></ul>Bonus PointsExperience in C2C marketplaces or mobile-first consumer productsExperience working alongside machine learning teams or embedding data science in ML-powered product discovery

Data Scientist (Product Analytics)

The JobWe are looking for a Senior Specialist - Content Moderation  to strengthen Depop’s content moderation operations. You will play a key role in optimising our moderation tooling, improving workflows, and driving initiatives that reduce user pain points while enabling scalable, effective risk detection. Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and CX, Support, Sellers, PR and Comms,  you will ensure Depop’s moderation ecosystem evolves in line with community needs and company priorities.  This role requires a test-learn-adapt mindset, with the ability to pivot between BAU needs and experimentation as priorities shift. We need you to bring a team-focused approach, working collaboratively within our Trust &amp; Safety team and across other functions. You will ensure we are always solving for the right problems by keeping the user perspective at the centre of decisions, using data analysis and user sentiment to identify, validate, and address key pain points.Responsibilities<ul><li>Lead improvements to Depop’s content moderation tooling (primarily Cinder) by designing, testing, and iterating workflows that support accurate, efficient, and scalable moderation.</li><li>Use user sentiment data and feedback to identify friction points, inform improvements, and enhance the overall user experience.</li><li>Apply a test–learn–adapt approach to moderation initiatives, ensuring changes are data-driven and iterated based on impact.</li><li>Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and CX to scope, prioritise, and implement solutions that improve detection and handling across different risk areas.</li><li>Conduct hands-on &amp; real-time data analysis by self-serving data from Looker and other internal tools to inform decisions and measure outcomes, as well as proactively identify future risks and trends and proactively recommend safeguards around them.</li><li>Provide SME for labelling as well as support and refine labelling processes to ensure accurate, consistent, and scalable enforcement across multiple risk areas.</li><li>Document and communicate feature requests, requirements, and workflow improvements to stakeholders clearly and effectively.  </li></ul>QualificationsRequirements<ul><li>Proven experience in Trust &amp; Safety, moderation, or platform integrity roles.</li><li>Familiar with a test, learn, adapt approach in an product-led environment</li><li>Strong knowledge of moderation tooling and processes, including designing workflows and optimising for agent efficiency</li><li>Demonstrated experience in cross-functional collaboration, ideally with Product, Engineering, and/or Data Science</li><li>Analytical skills with the ability to self-serve and interpret data from Looker or similar tools to uncover user pain points and then take action to solve for them</li><li>Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), with a proactive approach to sharing updates, flagging issues, and reporting on progress</li><li>Strong team player who fosters collaboration and transparency across workstreams</li><li>Demonstrated ability to follow through on responsibilities, ensuring issues are analysed, escalated where necessary, and resolved to completion</li><li>Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a mindset of continuous improvement</li></ul>

Senior Specialist Content Moderation

The JobThe Insights team works closely with stakeholders to produce analysis and to aid decision-making. This role works directly with the customer experience team. The role of the data scientist supporting this team includes helping them understand the main levers with which we can influence customer experience, why customers are contacting us and how we can better improve our service.There are several methods which the data scientist helps to achieve these goals. Firstly by making data available to consume for stakeholders.. Secondly by collaborating with stakeholders on deep dives to analyse trends. Finally it is to champion and share synthesised learnings with stakeholders in adjacent teams so the wider business has an understanding of the opportunities and risks within the customer experience space.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Creating and maintaining dashboards to track customer experience metrics.</li><li>Owning the migration of dashboarding to a scalable format</li><li>Producing ETLs from raw data sources to make data surfaceable</li><li>Aggregate data in a format which teams across the business can use</li><li>Supporting customer experience teams with analytical requests</li><li>Identify areas of opportunity to explore to improve customer experience</li><li>Measurement of impacts of strategic and tactical changes we make</li><li>Root cause analysis when we see things going wrong</li><li>Working across multiple teams including Community Support, Seller Success and Trust &amp; Safety</li><li>This role requires the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and be comfortable with context switching</li><li>This role will also require communication and collaboration with Product Data Scientists and Product Managers in cross-functional projects</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Proficiency in SQL and the ability to work with large datasets</li><li>Experience with visualisation tools like Looker or Tableau</li><li>Adept at creating ETLs (added bonus for experience with DBT)</li><li>Ability to work across multiple contexts</li><li>An analytical mind with good problem-solving skills and a love of numbers</li><li>Commercial awareness and a proactive attitude to make a difference and drive impact</li><li>A hunger to learn, natural curiosity and a keen eye for detail</li><li>A strong sense of ownership and highly organised nature</li></ul>Nice to haves<ul><li>Experience Working within a P2P marketplace or consumer-facing mobile-first products</li><li>Knowledge of Zendesk</li></ul>

Data Scientist (Marketplace Experience)

Depop is looking for a talented ML Manager to lead our Search ML team in the UK. In this role, you will lead a team of ML Scientists, building state-of-the-art models to power Depop’s search engine.ResponsibilitiesYou will:<ul><li>Lead and mentor a team of ML Scientists, setting the vision and fostering an inclusive, experiment-driven culture.</li><li>Partner with the team’s leads (Product Manager, Backend EM, Data Scientist) to translate business questions into an actionable search-ML roadmap that moves GMV, conversion and engagement.</li><li>Collaborate with the MLOps team to embed best practices and efficient ML workflows - covering CI/CD, feature management, monitoring, etc..</li><li>Collaborate with other ML teams, sharing models, tooling and insights, particularly in areas like Recommendations and Ranking</li><li>Stay on the pulse of new research in NLP, CV and multimodal retrieval, champion responsible-AI best practices, and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Significant experience working in Machine Learning, delivering models to solve industry-scale problems, and experience leading a team of ML Scientists and/or ML Engineers</li><li>Deep expertise in search and recommendation techniques: semantic embeddings, learning-to-rank, personalisation algorithms, etc.</li><li>Proven track record of delivering ML modes end-to-end: data strategy, training, deployment and monitoring , using Python, Spark and major deep-learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch or TensorFlow)</li><li>Experience working in cloud and MLOps environments</li><li>Strong command of experimental design, offline metrics and online A/B testing to drive product strategy</li><li>Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to translate complex ML concepts seamlessly for PMs, engineers and executives</li></ul>Nice to have<ul><li>Experience with AWS &amp; Databricks</li><li>Experience with OpenSearch</li></ul>

Machine Learning Manager

Job DescriptionDepop is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join us permanently. Within this role, you’ll be working in the cross-functional team in partnership with mobile, web and machine learning/data science teams to drive the team to success.Responsibilities:  As a Senior Backend Engineer within this team, you can expect to:<ul><li>Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and various Engineers to understand problems and to design solutions </li><li>Produce high-quality code that is well-structured and simple to understand that will be used by 1M&#43; active daily users</li><li>Take ownership of product development, from feature discovery, to the breakdown of work, and its implementation</li><li>End-to-end application support, including production incident management </li><li>Embrace agile methodologies and user-centred thinking</li><li>Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as blameless post-mortems, architecture reviews, and engineering guild sessions.</li><li>Collaborate on a daily basis with fellow engineers in the cross functional environment to solve problems and write code</li><li>Mentor and coach your colleagues</li><li>Own your code, workflows and, data through their entire lifecycle  </li></ul>Desired experience:<ul><li>Writing high quality code in TypseScript, Scala, Java, or another JVM language</li><li>Relational databases, ideally Postgres</li><li>NoSql datastores (e.g. DynamoDB)</li><li>Stream processing: (e.g. Kafka)</li><li>Experience building scalable web applications serving 10,000s of requests per second</li><li>DevOps culture (CI/CD pipeline)</li><li>Ability to proactively find and solve complex problems independently, but also know when to seek guidance or help from your peers.</li><li>Product-oriented mindset with a focus on solving real business problems rather than over-engineering solutions.</li><li>Experience with iterative development using A/B testing  </li></ul>Must haves:<ul><li>Solid software engineering experience. Strong evidence that you can learn our TypeScript and Scala stack effectively.. </li><li>Willing to work across multiple paradigms and languages, such as backend or data work, using TypeScript, Scala and Python. </li><li>Strong technical and non-technical communication skills</li><li>Proficient in testing solutions at different levels — unit and integration —</li><li>Experience with relational or non-relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL and DynamoDB </li><li>Experience with Kubernetes or similar</li></ul>Bonus points:<ul><li>Experience with Play framework</li><li>Experience with eCommerce</li><li>Experience with event-driven architectures, preferably using Kafka</li><li>Experience in using production AWS infrastructure, ideally with Terraform</li><li>Experience with Python</li><li>Experience with data engineering</li></ul>

Senior Backend Engineer

RoleThe Assistant Management Accountant – Revenue &amp; COS supports the Finance Manager and Revenue Accountant in delivering accurate and timely reporting of revenue and cost of sales. The role contributes to monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting processes, providing analysis and insights that support business performance and decision-making.ResponsibilitiesThe core aspects of the role include:<ul><li>Supporting the Revenue Accountant and Finance Manager of Revenue &amp; External Reporting to deliver Revenue and COS reporting on a monthly and quarterly basis</li><li>Working collaboratively with the Strategic Finance team and also the wider business on specific revenue and COS related lines of the P&amp;L.</li><li>Help identify KPIs, margins, trends by having a good working knowledge and understanding of Looker and leveraging this knowledge to showcase meaningful reports and explanations</li><li>Preparation and posting of Revenue and COS month end journals including accruals</li><li>Preparation of revenue bank accounts and reconciliation to the various revenue streams</li><li>Ensuring the integrity of revenue related Balance Sheet reconciliations and P&amp;L reporting</li><li>Working with a continuous improvement mindset with a view to look for improvements to processes and workings and, where required, support any revenue or COS related transformation projects</li><li>Support the Internal Audit team on SOX related items</li><li>Support the Year End Audit Revenue and COS requirements</li><li>Support and preparation of the SEC Analytics and quarterly review</li><li>Ad hoc support to the Finance Manager of Revenue &amp; External Reporting relating to any new areas of revenue or revenue related projects</li></ul>QualificationsRequirements<ul><li>Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)</li><li>Strong Excel and data analysis skills; experience with Looker or similar BI tools desirable</li><li>Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines</li><li>Clear communication and collaboration skills</li><li>Proactive, organised, and eager to contribute to process improvement</li></ul>

Assistant Management Accountant (12 month FTC)

RoleAt Depop, machine learning is integral to our value proposition. As a Machine Learning Scientist,  you will work on building state-of-the-art ranking models to power Depop&#39;s app, serving millions of personalised results to users daily.ResponsibilitiesYou will:<ul><li>Research, design and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems</li><li>Understand requirements from various stakeholders across the business, designing machine learning solutions to solve business problems</li><li>Set up and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development</li><li>Keep up to date with state-of-the-art research, contribute to Machine Learning groups, and apply new techniques for NLP, image processing, etc.</li><li>Participate in team ceremonies (follow the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, product road mapping, etc)</li><li>Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Experience working as a Machine Learning Scientist, with a track record of delivering models to solve industry-scale problems</li><li>Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, familiarity working with common frameworks such as Transformers, PyTorch or TensorFlow</li><li>Proficiency in Python, with the ability to write production-grade code and a good understanding of data engineering &amp; MLOps</li><li>Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with ML algorithms  </li></ul>Bonus points<ul><li>Experience working on learning-to-rank, search or recommendation models</li><li>Experience with deep learning &amp; large language models</li><li>Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests</li><li>Experience with Databricks and PySpark</li><li>Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)</li></ul>

Machine Learning Scientist

We’re looking for a UK-based Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Growth Initiative. This initiative’s mission is to help Depop expand into new markets and help millions of new users discover our community. You’ll be leading squads responsible for our Web buying experience, SEO and Marketing Technology, and play a pivotal role in scaling our paid marketing efforts, improving our new user experience on web, and driving purchases, signups and app downloads.Key challenges you’ll lead the teams through include integrating new Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) to enhance marketing audience segmentation and unlock new data capabilities, improving global privacy and consent management systems, and building engaging, data-driven web experiences that deliver personalized user journeys.This is a great opportunity to combine technical leadership with real business impact: managing the initiative that is the front door of Depop, powering new user growth, while shaping the future of how fashion resale reaches the world. The role manages managers, staff engineers and other ICs, while reporting to a Senior Engineering Director.What you’ll do<ul><li>Deliver high impact solutions</li><li>Lead your squads to ship high-quality, data-driven solutions that directly improve user acquisition and paid marketing effectiveness. You’ll own delivery and ensure your team’s work translates into measurable growth.  </li><li>Lead and support your squads </li><li>Manage 2 cross-functional squads of 3–6 engineers, with a growth opportunity to manage other managers. Your focus will be on enabling them to perform at their best while fostering happiness, motivation, and resilience. Hands-on contribution is encouraged, but your superpower is leadership.</li></ul>​<ul><li>Collaborate across functions</li><li>Partner with product, design, marketing, analytics and data to define priorities, align on goals, set strategic objectives and drive results across the Growth pillar.</li></ul>​<ul><li>Shape culture</li><li>Champion inclusion, diversity, and team health. Foster a culture of curiosity, respect, and continuous improvement, aligned with Depop’s values and community-first DNA.</li></ul>​What we’re looking forWe’d love to hear from you if you have some of the following:<ul><li>A track record as an Engineering Manager building high-performing teams, delivering impactful roadmaps, and growing engineers and other managers.</li><li>Experience in MarTech/AdTech - from product catalogues and conversion data to targeting, measurement, and the evolving privacy landscape.</li><li>Experience in New User Acquisition/Growth in an e-commerce environment - from SEO and Marketing to Site Performance to Search and Product Landing Page experiences.</li><li>A strong sense of ownership and delivery mindset — you love solving complex problems across domains, and making a big  impact.</li><li>Great decision-making skills under ambiguity, with a bias towards simplicity and execution.</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management: aligning diverse goals to deliver outcomes everyone’s proud of.</li><li>Alignment with our Depop DNA — showing up for the community, having each other’s backs, acting with purpose, and keeping sustainability and thrift front of mind.</li></ul>

Senior Engineering Manager - Grow

We’re currently hiring for a Product Manager to work in the Inventory initiative team. Our vision is to make Depop the easiest place to turn items into shoppable inventory - in our mission to make fashion circular.This product team works to build experiences that help sellers of all shapes and sizes succeed on Depop, and meet sellers where they operate and manage their businesses. Your team will own AI-enabled experiences that are exciting, differentiating and loved by our users. You will report to the Staff Product Manager who leads the Inventory initiative, as part of the wider Supply product org.Responsibilities Vision, strategy and roadmap: <ul><li>Define and drive the web sellers product vision, as it relates to the wider Inventory and Supply product strategy.   </li></ul>Deciding what to build: <ul><li>Working with product squad leadership (designer, engineering manager) to prioritise features that deliver the highest impact against quarterly objectives, the wider Inventory and Supply strategy, within constraint of the teams’ resources. </li><li>Combine user research, rigorous data exploration and technical guidance to make informed decisions about the vital few worth building, what to not pursue and when to adjust focus where necessary. You iterate on hypotheses and solutions as you learn. </li><li>Scope and effectively prioritise new features to ensure the right balance between effort and impact.</li><li>Have a point of view on what seller features and tools belong on web vs. app vs. any other channel, based on the type of sellers who use it, the types of problems we are solving, and the inherent strengths of web-based vs. app-based  experiences.</li></ul> Product Execution: <ul><li>Work with squad leadership to ensure solutions are simple, intuitive, and web-optimised - ensuring break-points, mobile web, responsiveness are considered when building web experiences and features. </li><li>Working with the engineering team to ensure features are built to specifications, championing quality and product excellence. </li><li>Leverage experimentation when appropriate to test and learn against hypotheses, capitalising on the ability to fail fast and learn faster through web development. </li><li>Recognising obstacles to the team, and making sure they are escalated or resolved before they impact delivery. Keeping effort vs value at the forefront of your decision making. </li></ul>Keeping everyone aligned and informed:<ul><li>Aligning with the Staff Product Manager and the functional leadership on the priorities and strategic goals of the wider product area.</li><li>Motivating the team and giving them the context they need to reach their potential.</li><li>Identifying and leveraging the expertise of key functional stakeholders (e.g. Engineering, Design, Product Marketing) and other product squads to help shape and execute on the vision for your area and fully understanding the opportunities, potential solutions, and constraints. </li><li>Motivating the team and giving them the context they need to reach their potential. </li><li>Creating and fostering a team culture that keeps people engaged and focused.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>Experience working on mobile app/web products: demonstrated experience in product execution and mobile experience delivery. You have led an engineering team to build out digital features and experiences in an agile, iterative way. </li><li>Robust technical understanding: You have a good understanding of web development, and are able to challenge engineers on their assumptions and have productive conversations about size and scope of web features. </li><li>Great leadership and sense of ownership: You own the web sellers experience, and make decisions that steer the team and the product in the right direction, against our overall company and sellers strategy. </li><li>Collaborative, excellent communication skills and executive presence: Inventory is at the core of our company differentiation - you will need to build relationships with senior stakeholders across product, strategy and operations, and engineering. </li><li>Strategic and commercial acumen: you must be able to balance commercial and user requirements when prioritising features the team is building. </li><li>Strong accountability and ownership: you create order in the world around you and get huge satisfaction from delivering the highest quality features.</li><li>Previous experience as a Product Manager/Product Owner in an agile environment</li><li>Experience working with experimentation and A/B testing. </li><li>Experience working with AI products, Gen AI and LLMs preferred.</li></ul>

Product Manager, Inventory Initiative (12-Month FTC)

In 2025 our ambition is to be a high-performing, delivery-focused organisation and the best engineering organisation for those who value meaningful career growth. We are looking for a UK based Engineering Manager to lead our Payments squad, a key team ensuring we provide our users with a best in class purchase experience. 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 and high compassion. 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&#39;s roadmap.   Responsibilities<ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Foster Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team&#39;s performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.</li><li>Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, ops, analytics, engineering, and product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.</li><li>Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.</li></ul>QualificationsYou’ll be an excellent fit if you have: <ul><li>A proven track record as an Engineering manager of growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.</li><li>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. </li><li>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.</li><li>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. </li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.</li><li>Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.</li></ul>Bonus points if:<ul><li>You are familiar with any one of the following technologies :  Scala, Java  or Typescript.</li><li>You are familiar with observability, tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies.</li><li>You have previously worked in an App first business.</li></ul>

Engineering Manager - Payments

We’re looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Web Platform squad. This team’s dual mission is to help scale our web platform to keep up with our rapid user growth with millions of monthly active users, and improve the developer experience by enabling our engineers to ship more with less code and less cognitive overload.  Key challenges you’ll be leading the team through include: how to ensure stability, security and scalability of the web platform, supporting the adoption of Typescript and node in Depop’s backend and building great developer tooling and paved paths to make engineering easier.This is a great opportunity to combine strong technical leadership and knowledge with real business impact: managing the team that is building the systems that power Depop’s growth, while shaping the future of how fashion resale reaches the world. Success looks like: scalable, reliable web platforms; empowered engineers; and measurable improvements in developer velocity and user experience.What you’ll do<ul><li>Deliver high impact solutions Lead your squad to ship high-quality, solutions that directly improve developer experience and effectiveness. You’ll own delivery and ensure your team’s work translates into measurable improvements.</li><li>Lead and support your squad Manage a team of 3–6 senior engineers. Your focus will be on enabling them to perform at their best while fostering happiness, motivation, and resilience. Hands-on contribution is encouraged, but your superpower is leadership.​</li><li>Collaborate across functions Partner with engineering, product, marketing, and data to understand your users, define priorities, align on goals, set strategic objectives and create a technical roadmap.​</li><li>Shape culture Champion inclusion, diversity, and team health. Foster a culture of curiosity, respect, and continuous improvement, aligned with Depop’s values and community-first DNA.</li></ul>What we’re looking forWe’d love to hear from you if you have some of the following:<ul><li>A track record as an Engineering Manager building high-performing teams, delivering impactful roadmaps, and growing engineers.</li><li>Experience designing and evolving scalable, reliable platform architectures, balancing concerns such as developer experience, security,  performance, and maintainability.</li><li>Background in web engineering with technologies like Nodejs, Next.js, Typescript and React.</li><li>Passion for improving developer productivity, building tooling, frameworks, and paved paths that help other teams move faster and safer.</li><li>A strong sense of ownership and delivery mindset - you love solving complex problems across domains, and making a big impact.</li><li>Great decision-making skills under ambiguity, with a bias towards simplicity and execution.</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management: aligning diverse goals to deliver outcomes everyone’s proud of.</li><li>Alignment with our Depop DNA - showing up for the community, having each other’s backs, acting with purpose, and keeping sustainability and thrift front of mind.</li></ul>