Engineering Manager - Backend

In a few short years, has grown from a successful startup based on a great idea to a publicly traded, multi-product company. We are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world, continuing to experience hyper-growth and scale!

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.

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

Please note this is a hybrid position of 3 days/week in our London office (Fitzrovia).

About The Role

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 product. With over 300 engineers, we operate in cross-functional teams, collaboratively defining, improving, building, and delivering features.

Joining means becoming part of a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your contributions will have a real impact!

What you will do:

• Lead and coordinate 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 can offer you:

• Opportunity to join a well-funded, proven company with big ambitions and potential, competitive salary, bonus and equity incentive program.
• Private healthcare insurance with Vitality.
• 50GBP/month towards a ClassPass membership.
• Buffet breakfast and lunch offered at the office from 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.

Are you currently based in the UK and within a commutable distance to London? Please note that we can only consider candidates who are based in the UK and able to come to the office in London three days a week.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We believe in equal opportunity.

is an equal opportunity employer and bans discrimination and harassment of any kind. is committed to the standard of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to creating and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of any personal characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, family or parental status, physical or mental disability or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where operates.

is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with any disabilities. If you think you may require accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to .

All requests for accommodation are treated confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.

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.