About the Company
Depop is a peer‑to‑peer circular fashion marketplace where users buy, sell, and discover secondhand fashion. Depop’s mission is to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new. Depop is an equal‑opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
About the Role
We’re looking for a UK‑based Engineering Manager to lead our Account Protection squad. The squad’s mission is to make strong account protection the default for every Depop user, protecting genuine buyers and sellers from account takeover, automated abuse, scraping, and other threats.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, support, and develop a squad of 5‑7 engineers.
- Help establish Account Protection as a clear and effective capability at Depop.
- Own the team’s delivery, health and product outcomes.
- Create clarity around priorities, sequencing, risks, dependencies and trade‑offs.
- Stay close to technical direction, architectural decisions and engineering trade‑offs without owning every technical decision.
- Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Security, Marketplace, Trust & Support, and operational teams.
- Make risks, dependencies and decisions visible early, so the right support and alignment are in place.
- Build an inclusive team culture where people can contribute, learn, challenge ideas respectfully, work through disagreement constructively, and grow.
What You’ll Need
- Experience managing, coaching or developing engineers.
- A strong software engineering background and comfort engaging with technology, architecture, and technical trade‑offs.
- Strong ownership of team health, delivery and product outcomes.
- The ability to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
- A collaborative leadership style, with empathy, clear communication and the ability to work through disagreement constructively.
- Motivation to protect users and help make online communities safer.
Optional Experience
- Authentication and account access: login flows, session management, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, WebAuthn/passkeys, device trust, or account recovery.
- Account protection: takeover prevention, suspicious login detection, credential stuffing prevention, risk‑based authentication, etc.
- Bot and scraping mitigation: bot detection, scraping prevention, abuse prevention, rate limiting.
- Edge‑layer protection: Cloudflare Bot Management, WAF, Turnstile, etc.
- Reliable production systems: observability, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, experimentation, incident learning.
Benefits
- Flexible working and hybrid model with Flex, Office‑based and Remote options.
- 25 days 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.
- A 4‑week paid sabbatical after 5 years of consecutive service.
- Health + mental wellbeing: cash‑plan or PMI, subsidised counselling and coaching, cycle‑to‑work scheme, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders.
- Parenting: 18 weeks paid parental leave (birth or adoption), IVF leave, shared parental leave, paid emergency parent/carer leave.
- Learning budget, conferences, training workshops.
- Pension match up to 6% of qualifying earnings.
- Life insurance: compensation 3× salary.
- Extra perks: in‑office Depop shop (free!), packing station with free delivery, gifts and rewards for milestones.
EEO Statement
Depop is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process.
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