monday.com

Engineering Manager - Backend

  • R&D
  • London
  • Management
  • Full-time

Description

In a few short years, monday.com has grown from a successful startup based on a great idea to a publicly traded, multi-product company. We are one of the fastest- growing SaaS companies in the world, continuing to experience hyper-growth and scale!

We are now building and scaling our engineering teams in London and we are looking for an experienced, hands-on Engineering Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be one of our first Engineering Managers based in London and shape the future of our R&D teams in the site. 

You will join our Data group, which is building a groundbreaking new Data Platform—mondayDB 3.0. This next-generation system is designed to scale our product’s capacity by orders of magnitude.

🔗 Explore the future of monday with mondayDB.

🔍 Dive deeper into the architecture of mondayDB 1.0

Some of the challenges ahead for this year:

  • Scale monday’s data capacity by 100x—one of our biggest challenges yet
  • Lead the industry with cutting-edge data capabilities
  • Enhance resilience and observability across the organization


🎯 Check out our Engineering Blog - https://engineering.monday.com/

Please note this is a hybrid position of 3 days/week in our London office (Fitzrovia).

About The Role

You'll work with experienced and highly talented engineers who are passionate about what they do, using cutting-edge technologies in a data- and impact-driven environment. We foster a culture of transparency, full ownership, teamwork, and a no-ego policy.

Our engineering department is structured into specialized groups, each responsible for a critical domain within the monday.com product. With over 300 engineers, we operate in cross-functional teams, collaboratively defining, improving, building, and delivering features.

Joining monday.com means becoming part of a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your contributions will have a real impact!

What you will do:

  • Lead team activities, including feature development, automation, testing, bug management, and Agile planning.
  • Develop features end-to-end, collaborating with UI/UX designers, and take full ownership from conception to post-deployment analysis.
  • Drive technical leadership within R&D, shaping product architecture and engineering best practices.
  • Evolve our architecture and engineering processes to scale with increasing users, features, and data.
  • Manage and mentor a team of highly skilled developers in a CI/CD environment using cutting-edge technologies.
  • Work closely with Product and Design teams in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
  • Our tech stack: React.JS, Redux, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL.

Note: Prior experience with our tech stack is not required; we welcome people willing to learn.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of proven management experience, leading projects from start to finish.
  • Experience building web applications from scratch in a production environment.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.
  • Impact-driven mindset, with a strong focus on users and business needs.
  • A strong sense of responsibility and ownership, ensuring high-quality delivery and long-term success.

What monday.com can offer you:

  • Opportunity to join a well-funded, proven company with big ambitions and potential, competitive salary, bonus and equity incentive program.
  • Private healthcare insurance with Vitality. 
  • 50GBP/month towards a ClassPass membership.
  • Buffet breakfast and lunch offered at the office from Monday to Thursday.
  • Fully dedicated learning and development team that provides opportunities for our employees to hone and gain new skills. 
  • Fun team events, socials and offsites.
  • Amazing company culture that values transparency and collaboration while never forgetting to have fun while we work! We've been named "Best Place to Work" in the UK.
  • A global, dynamic and passionate environment with employees in Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Denver, London, Warsaw, Sydney, São Paulo, and Tokyo.