PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! This role is for a Senior Engineering Manager where you’ll be a manager of managers. 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 . 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: 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. Partners with senior engineers to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices. Collaborates with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards. We consider your application across all open EM roles at Monzo independent of which role you've applied for, so if you've recently applied to a similar role at Monzo and have been unsuccessful, please wait 6 months before applying again. Initial Call (1 hour) You'll meet with one of our Senior Engineering Managers or Engineering Directors. Team and Org Management (1 hour) An example based interview with 1-2 of our engineering leaders. 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. 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. 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 ➕LI-Remote #LI-AL1 Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. You can read more in our blog , 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report. 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. We don't need full or birth names at application stage