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Depop

Engineering Manager, Search

Depop

Engineering Manager leading Search Retrieval squad at Depop to enhance search engine relevance. Overseeing a team, managing deliveries and fostering an inclusive culture.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ElasticSearchThrift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Ensure your team delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and creating measurable value.
  • Manage a cross-functional team of 3-6 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.
  • 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.
  • Partner closely with marketing, analytics, engineering, product to align on goals, define priorities, and ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration.
  • Advocate for team health, inclusion, and diversity, while fostering a respectful and empowering environment that encourages continuous learning and improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • A proven track record as an Engineering Manager of growing and building high-performing engineers, teams, and processes.
  • Experience as an individual contributor or leader in the Search Domain
  • Worked closely with Machine Learning and Data Science colleagues
  • Worked closely in tandem with Design and Product, as either a Product Engineer in the past, or Engineering Manager, to build rich user experiences.
  • You can work 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 are familiar with search engine technology such as OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Vespa.. You are familiar with observability, tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
  • Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
  • Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
  • Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
  • Work/Life Balance: 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
  • Impact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering
  • Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
  • Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent
  • All offices are dog-friendly
  • Family Life: For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
  • For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
  • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Learn + Grow: Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
  • Learning budget
  • Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources
  • Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva
  • Depop Extras: In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
  • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

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Hard Skills & Tools
Engineering ManagementFull-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningData Science CollaborationProduct EngineeringSearch Engine TechnologyOpenSearchElasticSearchVespaData Pipeline Tools
Soft Skills
Decision MakingTeam MotivationFeedback and CoachingCollaborationPositive Change Advocacy