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Engineering Manager

Monzo Bank· Engineering
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Hybrid (Barcelona)full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Engineering Managers at Monzo are part of cross-functional, autonomous teams responsible for technical and delivery outcomes, coaching engineers, and shaping product strategy with partner disciplines.

Responsibilities

  • - Leading a high performing, senior team of engineers. You’ll be supporting, coaching, and developing them through their careers.
  • - Partnering closely with other disciplines including Product, Design, Research, and Data, to build out product strategy, vision and mission setting, and goal setting.
  • - Taking accountability for delivery across your squad(s), collaborating with Technical Leads and Product Manager.
  • - Actively fostering a high bar for engineering excellence within your teams.
  • - 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.

Qualifications

  • - Has worked on user-facing mobile products - ideally, you’ll be able to discuss the product impact you’ve made in your previous roles, including working on product strategy, roadmapping, and goal setting.
  • - You have a founder mindset and like taking ownership of anything that will drive business impact.
  • - Has an understanding of what good looks like for a high-performing team of engineers and ability to chart a course to get there
  • - Is comfortable operating with ambiguous problem areas with a high degree of autonomy.
  • - It’s a bonus if you have experience working in an experimentation led environment.
  • - Has 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 coach people to achieve their goals
  • - Has a natural ability to inspire and motivate a team

Skills

Required:People leadership / team managementProduct strategy collaborationDelivery ownershipEngineering excellence

Benefits

  • - Base salary depending on experience
  • - Incentive Awards tied to performance
  • - benefits
  • - Learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Monzo Bank

A bank as smart as your phone.

YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!

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