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Depop

Engineering Manager, Payments

Depop

Engineering Manager leading Payments squads at Depop's peer-to-peer fashion marketplace. Focusing on wallet balances, refunds, and seller onboarding within the engineering culture.

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

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
iOS

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 3-7 engineers (BE and iOS), ensuring they are happy, motivated, and set up for success.
  • 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, ops, analytics, engineering, and 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Have a strong sense of ownership and track record of delivery.
  • 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
  • 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
  • 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
  • MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent
  • All offices are dog-friendly
  • 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
  • Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
  • Learning budget
  • Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources
  • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva
  • 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
Backend EngineeringFull-Stack DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipData-Driven Decision MakingProcess Improvement
Soft Skills
Team MotivationCoachingCollaborationPositive Change ManagementEmpathy