Head of Engineering, EU Platform

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products – we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

📍Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid) | 💰This is a unique role for Monzo so we’re open to adjusting our compensation for the right individual + Equity + Benefits

About the Role 

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.

Is this role right for you?

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.

We recognise that people lead in different ways, we’re looking for someone who is adept at:

• 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.
• 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.

The interview process:

After an initial informal recruiter call you go through two main stages

1. 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.
2. 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…’)
3. 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. If you’d like to ask a question sooner, email tech-hiring@monzo.com. Please also use that email to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason.

What’s in it for you:

💰This is a unique role for Monzo so we’re open adjusting our compensation for the right individual + Equity + Benefits

📍This role will be based in our Dublin, Ireland office with hybrid approach to remote working.

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.