Head of Engineering, Monzo
EU Platform
+ Equity
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
Be an early applicant
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new kind of bank that makes money work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- While this is not a role which requires hands-on-coding, we are looking for an experienced leader who has a strong technical and delivery background and has worked as a software engineer in previous roles
- People Leadership: Has experience directly managing Engineering Managers and leading large organisations. You can support, coach and develop them through their career with regular 1:1s and continuous feedback
What the job involves
- This role is for an Engineering Leader based in Dublin
- You’ll be building the banking platform that underpins our expansion into European markets
- This role is great for someone who has previous experience building out payments, banking infrastructure, or working on platform products
- Engineering Leaders at Monzo are part of cross-functional, autonomous teams and groups
- In this role, you’ll lead a multi-disciplinary organisation to set big, ambitious goals for an entire product area, and have the freedom to decide how to meet them
- You’ll operate with autonomy and have a massive impact on our customers’ lives and Monzo’s success
- You would be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes for their area - that means supporting and developing best in class engineering talent, as well as creating an inclusive team environment for people to do their best work
- You’ll be responsible for structuring, organising, supporting and challenging your team to deliver on their mission
- Delivery and Execution: Enjoys taking accountability for delivery across your org, collaborating with Product, Data, and Technical Leads
- Engineering and Operational Excellence: Actively fosters a high bar for engineering excellence within your organisation. You’re accountable for the technical outcomes your teams deliver alongside Engineering Manager and Senior Engineers performance and growth, so holding a high bar (and clearly articulating your expectations) is key
- Technical Influence: Partners with senior engineers to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices
- Stakeholder Relationships: Builds strong stakeholder relationships with other teams, and creates a focus space for engineers to do their best work
- Organisational Wide Impact: Collaborates with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards
Application process
- After an initial informal recruiter call you go through two main stages
- Recruiter Call (30 mins) You'll meet our Hiring Lead for Engineering to discuss your experience and learn more about Monzo. They'll be your partner and guide throughout the interview process
- Initial Call (1 hour) You'll meet with 1-2 of our Engineering Leaders. They'll ask you about your previous experience, in particular people leadership, product delivery and technical leadership. They’ll ask example based questions (‘Tell me about a time when…’)
- Loop Stage (3 hours 30 mins) The Loop stage consists of 3 x 60 min interviews that take place over 1-2 days (depending on your availability) and one 30 minute interview with our CEO for Europe (more details below)
- The Loop is one stage and includes:
- Team and Org Management (1 hour)
- An example based interview with 1-2 of our engineering leaders. They’re interested to hear examples from your previous experience on the teams you’ve led, how you’ve shaped and partnered with product, and the impact you had
- System Design (1 hour)
- You'll partner with a Staff or Principal Engineer on a technical whiteboarding exercise
- Behavioural (1 hour)
- Similar to Team and Org Management, this is an example based interview with 1-2 Engineering Leaders. This interview focuses on your people leadership style and core behaviours as an Engineering Manager
- Chat with EU CEO (30 mins)
- This will be your opportunity to ask us any questions about Monzo EU, our plans for the market and the expectations of the role
- All things going well, you'll have completed the hiring process
- Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You’ll have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process
Our take
Monzo is a challenger bank that fully operates online and offers a full range of current, savings, business accounts, and more. The speed of the challenger banks to provide a great experience has been impressive, and the number of competitors appearing has proven the consumer desire for innovation.
Monzo remains one of the popular online banks, with more than 6 million customer active users. The company faces competition as more traditional banks, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have launched their own digital banks. However, the new technologies that the company is built on enable it to expand quickly (with fewer issues) than the incumbent players' offerings.
With an increasing amount of people switching banks, the company's ever-expanding suite of banking and financial services (such as its buy-now-pay-later offering) has resulted in Monzo receiving the second-highest net switching gains among digital challenger banks (just behind Starling).
After setting U.S. expansion plans aside in 2020, the company launched in the U.S. market in early 2022, partnering with Sutton Bank to provide its U.S. accounts. After several years focused on narrowing its losses, Monzo hit profitability in the first two months of 2023. In the same year, 2 million new customers joined, tallying its customer base at 9 million in 2024.
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Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 18 rounds)
May 2024
$190m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$430.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
- Flexible working hours
- Work From Home Opportunities + we'll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
- 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
- Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year
- Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
- Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
- 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
- 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
- Unum Life Insurance
- Access to fertility and family-forming health benefits via Fertifa
- Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle-to-Work Scheme
Company values
- Be hard on problems, not people 🙌 We create supportive communities to help people thrive.
- Make a difference 🚀 We solve real problems, working on things that have the biggest impact for our customers and each other.
- Help everyone belong 🤗 We’re building a bank for everyone. We embrace differences and make sure everyone feels welcome.
- Think customer first; grow Monzo safely 🥕 We always do what's best for customers. It's the right thing to do and the safest way to grow.
- Default to transparency 🎤 We’re open with each other and customers unless we have good reason not to be.
- Think big, start small, own it 🌲 We’re ambitious and shoot for the moon, working iteratively to get the best results.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Jonas Templestein
(CTO)Founder of HipDial. Former Software Engineer at Starling Bank.
People progressing
Joined in the Customer Operations team. Moved to be a Financial Crime Analyst after 5 months. Then moved again to be a Business Analyst after 2.5 years. Currently working as a Senior Product Manager.
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