Engineering Manager - Backend

At monday.com, we help teams get more work done. We are the best AI work platform that empowers teams to automate, build, and scale their impact end-to-end with tools that actually execute the work for you. With over $1B in ARR, 250,000+ customers, and a global team, we’re serious about building a product people love to use and giving our employees the same ownership and flexibility to shape the way the world works.

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 scaling our engineering teams in London and we are looking for an experienced, hands-on Engineering Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join our London Engineering leadership group and shape the future of our R&D teams here and beyond.

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, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers, fostering collaboration, independence, and technical excellence.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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 base salary, bonus, and RSUs.
• Private healthcare insurance, critical illness, and life insurance coverage.
• Pension contributions matched up to 7%.
• 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.