Senior Engineering Manager

Monzo Bank; London; Hybrid; GBP 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial technology firm is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and inspire multiple teams in London. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for nurturing engineering talent and ensuring high-quality delivery across various projects. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers and senior engineers, to drive technical initiatives and foster a culture of excellence. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of engineering practices within the organization while providing a supportive environment for your team to thrive. If you are passionate about leadership and technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Equity

Flexible working hours

Learning budget of £1,000

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering teams of 20+ engineers.
• Strong background in technical delivery and people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and support team growth.

Skills

People Leadership

Technical Influence

Delivery and Execution

Stakeholder Relationships

Organisational Wide Impact

Engineering Excellence

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About the Role

This role is for a Senior Engineering Manager where you’ll be a manager of managers. You will be leading across multiple teams in an org of around 20-30 people. We’re expanding and your role as the Senior EM will be to grow and build new squads as needed. Your direct reports will include Tech Leads, Senior Engineers and 2-3 Engineering Managers.

Senior Engineering Managers at Monzo are part of cross-functional, autonomous teams and groups. Our teams are mission-driven, and typically include Product Managers, backend, web and mobile engineers as well as data scientists, designers and subject matter experts relevant to that mission. Teams are organised into groups, and then collectives - we aim to keep our line management structure as shallow as possible, and for teams to directly own decision making relevant to their work.

Senior Engineering Managers are accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes for their area - that means supporting and developing best-in-class engineering talent, as well as creating an inclusive team environment for people to do their best work. You’ll be responsible for structuring, organising, supporting and challenging your team to deliver on their mission.

You can read more on the expectations of Senior Engineering Managers in our Progression Framework.

Is this role right for you?

While this is not a role which requires hands-on coding, we are looking for an experienced manager who has a strong technical and delivery background and has worked as a software engineer in previous roles.

We recognise that Senior Engineering Managers lead in different ways, we’re looking for someone who is adept at:

• Delivery and Execution: Enjoys taking accountability for delivery across your squad(s), collaborating with the Technical Lead and Product Manager.
• Engineering and Operational Excellence: Actively fosters a high bar for engineering excellence within your teams. You’re accountable for the technical outcomes your teams deliver alongside individual engineer performance and growth, so holding a high bar (and clearly articulating your expectations) is key.
• People Leadership: Has experience directly managing at least 2-3 Engineering Managers and leading orgs of around ~20 engineers. You can support, coach and develop them through their career with regular 1:1s and continuous feedback.
• Technical Influence: Partners with senior engineers to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Builds strong stakeholder relationships with other teams, and creates a focus space for engineers to do their best work.
• Organisational Wide Impact: Collaborates with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards.

The interview process:

After an initial informal recruiter call you go through two main stages:

1. Initial Call (1 hour): You'll meet with one of our Senior Engineering Managers or Engineering Directors. They'll ask you about your previous experience, in particular people leadership, product delivery and technical leadership. They’ll ask example-based questions (‘Tell me about a time when…’).
2. Loop Stage (3 hours 30 mins): The Loop stage consists of 3 x 60 min interviews that take place over 1-2 days (depending on your availability) and one 30 minute reverse interview.

The Loop is one stage and the interviews in this stage are:

• Team and Org Management (1 hour): An example-based interview with 1-2 of our engineering leaders. They’re interested to hear examples from your previous experience on the teams you’ve led, how you’ve shaped and partnered with product, and the impact you had.
• System Design (1 hour): You'll partner with a Staff or Principal Engineer on a technical whiteboarding exercise.
• Behavioural (1 hour): Similar to Team and Org Management, this is an example-based interview with 1-2 Engineering Leaders. This interview focuses on your people leadership style and core behaviours as an Engineering Manager.
• Chat with an Engineering Leader (30 mins): At Monzo, we believe interviews are a two-way street. This will be your opportunity to ask us any questions about Monzo, engineering leadership or our teams – whatever’s on your mind.

All things going well, you'll have completed the hiring process. Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You’ll have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process. If you’d like to ask a question sooner, email [e-mail]. Please also use that email to let us know if there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason.

What’s in it for you:

Base salary £130k - £160k + Equity + Benefits. We can help you relocate to the UK. We can sponsor visas. This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London). We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences. And much more, see our full list of benefits here.