What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager (Shipping) position at Etsy?
Company Description
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.
The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. 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.
Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
Job Description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Shipping team in Manchester.
As the Engineering Manager you will play a pivotal role in leading the team and ensuring that buyers and sellers on our marketplace engage around a positive shipping experience, receive their items quickly and when things don’t work out that any issues are resolved.
Do you find joy in solving problems in product and improving the fulfillment experience, leading a highly engaged group of engineers, and providing a platform for our engineers to grow? If so, this could be the perfect match.
Qualifications
What does the day-to-day look like?
- Lead and manage a cross functional team of engineers (5) - your main responsibility will be making sure the people in the team are happy and set up for success, you are encouraged to stay hands on, but this should not be the primary focus.
- Be accountable for the performance of the team as a unit and the career growth of the engineers within the team. Have regular 1:1s and provide continuous feedback to the team members.
- Work closely with diverse functions within the team across product, design, analytics and QA to ensure that your team is clear on goals and delivering value for our users.
- Work with the recruiting team in the end-to-end recruiting process.
- Ensure that new engineers onboard successfully and have the greatest opportunity to excel at Depop and their careers.
- Advocate for your team and engineering to raise awareness on team health, ensure inclusion, and drive positive change.
- Establish and maintain an inclusive, respectful, and diverse culture to ensure that all voices are heard.
- Collaborate with teams across the pillar and the organisation to ensure cohesion across projects and roadmaps.
- Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for your team.
Additional Information
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:
- You are an Engineering manager in search of a new exciting opportunity.
- Can facilitate technical decision-making across multiple technical landscapes, having passion for the technical aspects of your work, but can let engineers drive the details.
- Experience building high-traffic systems servicing 10,000s of concurrent users
- Strong knowledge of systems design, within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP)
- Know how to apply processes judiciously to improve, rather than hamper, the team’s productivity.
- Can explore and assess needs from a high level perspective and make decisions based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals.
- Can 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.
- Passion for building a platform that is user-obsessed.
You align with our “Depop DNA” - showing up for the community, having each others backs, acting with purpose while having sustainability and cost in mind through thinking thrift.
