Responsibilities
- Taking accountability for delivery across your squad(s), collaborating with the Technical Lead and Product Manager.
- Actively fostering 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.
- You’ll initially lead a group of around 7-10 engineers (depending on the role) and support, coach and develop them through their career with regular 1:1s and continuous feedback.
- Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.
- Lead on communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focus space for engineers to do their best work.
- Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards.
Requirements
- experienced manager who has a strong technical and delivery background and has worked as a software engineer in previous roles.
- comfortable operating with ambiguous problem areas with a high degree of autonomy.
- delivery experience and is able to guide the squads in achieving their outcomes.
- Focuses on outcomes over processes, who optimises for the highest impact and leverage.
- Is able to input, understand and challenge engineering decisions - but to empower the team to make those decisions themselves
- Is able to to coach people to achieve their goals
- Has a natural ability to inspire and motivate a team
Nice to Have
- experience working in an experimentation led environment.
Benefits
- Incentive Awards tied to your performance
- We can help you relocate to the UK
- We offer flexible working with no company mandate on how often you need to come into the office. You can be London based or remote within the UK (with ad hoc visits to our London office).
- 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
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: 7-10. Structure: cross-functional, autonomous teams and groups
Additional Information
- If you live outside of London and we ask you to come into the office, Monzo will support you with the costs.
- We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance. You’ll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team, giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-ups, walking your dog or adventurous cat, avoiding peak commuting times or gym slots, appointments, or supporting your family in an emergency.
- We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊
