Senior Engineering Manager

Monzo is recruiting a Senior Engineering Manager to lead several engineering teams as a manager of managers. The role can be based in London or carried out remotely within the UK, and the posting gives a salary of £138,000 to £175,000 plus equity and benefits. The engineering organisation covers roughly 20 to 30 people, and the manager would grow it by forming new squads when needed.

The people reporting to this manager would be tech leads, senior engineers and two or three engineering managers. Teams are cross-functional and mission-driven, usually combining PMs, server-side and front-end engineers, mobile developers, data scientists and designers. Teams are grouped into collectives, and the company keeps line management as shallow as it can so that teams own their decisions. The manager answers for the technical and delivery results of the area, for developing engineering talent, and for an inclusive working environment. The posting says the role does not involve hands-on coding, but it expects solid technical and delivery grounding and earlier work as a software engineer.

The posting looks for someone skilled at delivery across one or more squads, working with tech leads and product managers. The manager should set a high bar for engineering quality and state expectations clearly. Experience directly managing at least two or three engineering managers, and leading an organisation of around 20 engineers, is expected, along with the ability to coach them through regular one-to-ones and feedback. The role also involves driving technical initiatives with senior engineers, building stakeholder relationships and contributing to engineering-wide standards.

The central engineering base sits in London, but engineers are spread across the UK and there is no requirement to attend the office. The hiring process has an informal recruiter call, a one-hour initial call with a senior engineering manager or engineering director, and a loop of three one-hour interviews plus a 30-minute conversation with an engineering leader. The posting says the process usually takes three to four weeks. Anyone who recently applied for a similar Monzo engineering manager role and was unsuccessful should wait six months before reapplying.