Engineering Manager, Android

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 run our Android Team team. 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 delivery, wellbeing, effectiveness and ultimately, success of the team. You will work closely with the team’s  Product Manager, Product Designer and Senior Staff Engineer focusing on building a delightful Android experience and growing Android userbase. 

You will manage all engineers (7-9 Android engineers) in the team and be responsible for creating and executing on the team's roadmap. You’ll report to the Director of Engineering in the Supply pillar.
 

Responsibilities

• Deliver Value and Drive Results: Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value. 

• Lead and Support Your Team: Manage a team of 7-9 Android engineers, ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success. While encouraged to stay hands-on, your primary focus will be on enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.

• Foster Growth and Feedback: Be accountable for the team's performance and the career growth of its members, providing regular feedback, guidance and coaching through 1:1s and continuous support.

• Collaborate Across Functions: Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.

• Build an Inclusive Culture: Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.

• Manage Cross-team Dependencies: Serve as a key liaison between the Android team and other product teams, ensuring efficient prioritisation and delivery of business-critical features and technical requirements. 

Qualifications

You’ll be an excellent fit if you have: 

• Strong experience as an Engineering manager, with experience in growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.

• Android engineering background with working experience building a consumer app at scale.

• Worked closely in tandem with Design and Product, as either a Product Engineer in the past, or Engineering Manager, to build rich user experiences on mobile.

• Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery. You get huge satisfaction from tackling complex and ambitious problems, and delivering the highest quality features.

• Strong decision making skills,  based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals, with preference towards simplicity and a strong bias towards delivery.

• Experience managing individual engineer performance; from managing underperformance, growing junior engineers, and enabling senior engineers to reach their full potential.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary stakeholders with varying goals to achieve great results that satisfy all requirements.

• Know how to drive positive interactions throughout your team and drive positive change.

• You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community,  having each other's backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.

Bonus points if:

• You have previously worked in an App first business.

• You have previous experience organising and tracking team workflows using JIRA