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Engineering Director, EU

Monzo Bank· Engineering
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Hybrid (London / Remote (UK) / Barcelona, Spain)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Director leading a distributed European engineering organization across the UK, Spain and remote locations to build and scale Monzo’s multi-market European bank.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a distributed engineering organisation spanning multiple squads, markets and countries.
  • Build and develop Engineering Managers, Senior Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Data, Research, Operations, Risk and Compliance leaders to define and execute Monzo's European strategy.
  • Drive alignment and execution across numerous collectives to ensure Europe receives the capabilities it needs to succeed.
  • Shape how Monzo approaches market expansion, localisation, regulatory requirements and multi-market product development.
  • Influence priorities and outcomes across teams that do not directly report to you.
  • Create clarity and momentum in highly ambiguous problem spaces where ownership and solutions are not always obvious.
  • Design and evolve organisational structures, operating models and planning processes that allow Monzo to scale effectively across Europe.
  • Help identify and validate product-market fit in new markets while balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategic investments.
  • Partner closely with executive leadership to shape the future of Monzo's European business.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading large engineering organisations through other leaders, including Engineering Managers, Senior Engineering Managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Proven ability to operate in highly complex organizations with cross-team collaboration.
  • Exceptional relationship-building and influencing without direct authority.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity for undefined goals, ownership or priorities.
  • Experience scaling organisations during rapid growth, organisational change or market expansion.
  • Strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams and developing future leaders.
  • Energised by building something new and shaping international expansion.

Skills

Required:Leadership of large engineering organisationsStakeholder management and influence

Benefits

  • Relocation support to the UK or Spain.
  • Visa sponsorship for the UK (not Spain).
  • Flexible working hours and trust to meet impact.
  • Learning budget of £1,000 per year for books, training courses and conferences.
Last updated Oct 21, 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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