Engineering Manager - Backend
R&DFull-time
We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~245,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.
With over 3,000 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.
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
We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~245,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.
With over 3,000 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.
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).
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’ll 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.
Your Experience & Skills
- 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, publicly listed company with big ambitions and strong growth potential.
- Competitive salary, bonus, and equity incentive program.
- Private healthcare insurance, critical illness, and life insurance coverage.
- Receive pension contributions matched up to 7%.
- 50GBP/month towards a ClassPass membership.
- Buffet breakfast and lunch provided at the office, 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.
We believe in equal opportunity.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
Meet the R&D team
The R&D Team is passionate about building innovative and lovable products, while tackling complex engineering problems at a great scale. We’re accountable for bringing the company’s vision to life by navigating our progress into flawless execution and encouraging full ownership and independence in all projects.
