Engineering Manager - Community

Company Description

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new. Founded in 2011, Depop's diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion.

Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it. Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York.

In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit

We aim 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. AI Disclosure:
We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human. 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

Depop is looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Trusted Community squad. The team's mission is to create a community of trusted users by keeping people safe and giving them a clear path to success. For Depop users, trust means being able to trust what they see, transact with confidence, feel protected and fairly treated, and know that positive participation is recognised.

Trusted Community is a well-established cross-functional squad made up of backend and iOS engineers, working closely with a dedicated Product Manager and Product Designer. The team builds the user education, trust signals, controls, and interventions that help Depop feel safe, fair, and trusted. The work includes areas such as user guidance, risk-based controls, age verification, gating, listing review, message interventions, account-level controls, and other compliance-sensitive experiences.

This is a complex and fast-changing space, where the team needs to move quickly, learn fast, and make thoughtful trade-offs across user experience, technical quality, fairness, compliance, and legal obligations. This role is well suited to an Engineering Manager with a strong software engineering background, strong product judgement, and the confidence to engage deeply with technical direction when needed. Direct experience in trust, safety, compliance, marketplace integrity, or similar spaces would be valuable, but we also highly value candidates who have led strong product engineering teams, especially experiment-led squads building user-facing systems.

Lead, support, and develop a cross-functional squad of backend and iOS engineers. Own the team's delivery, health, and product outcomes. Help the team create clarity in a complex and evolving problem space. Drive progress at pace, with a strong focus on learning, iteration, and measurable…