About the company
Monzo is on a mission to build technology that connects the world. We are more than a platform; we are a global infrastructure that millions of people rely on for their daily lives, finances, and communication.
Responsibilities
- Drive the secure-by-design mandate, leading the transition from reactive security to proactive architectural invariants.
- Eliminate systemic risk by identifying fundamental, cross-cutting security problems and driving major software engineering improvements to solve them at the root.
- Partner with product and software engineering teams to embed a healthy security culture into Monzo’s product development process.
- Cultivate an engineering-first culture, fostering a culture where security engineers are, first and foremost, software engineers.
- Manage a high-performing group of software engineering leaders and senior individual contributors.
- Collaborate with software engineering managers and engineering leaders to contribute to company-wide security best practices and standards.
- Form a close alliance with the CISO, CTO, and Product leaders to advise on the long-term health of the business.
- Responsible for the engineering effectiveness and operational excellence of your teams.
Requirements
- Architectural authority: You possess the technical depth to understand and challenge complex engineering decisions.
- Proven leadership: You have a track record of leading engineering organisations of 30–50 people in a high-growth, top-tier tech environment.
- Software engineering experience: You likely spent the first half of your career as a Senior or Staff Engineer.
- Outcome-obsessed: You prioritise high-leverage work over process for process’s sake.
Conditions
- Base salary £170k - £200k + Equity + Benefits