Engineering Tech Lead - Backend

Description

In a few short years, monday.com 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 experienced Software Engineers. This is an exciting opportunity to be among our first Engineers based in London and shape the future of our R&D teams in the site. 

🎯 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).

We’re looking for Backend Engineering Tech Leads to 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

About The Role

• Work on a tier-one service with a company-wide impact.
• Develop a new service designed to support 100x our current scale.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure seamless integration and fast execution.
• Focus on resilience, monitoring, and observability—key to our success.
• Emphasize teamwork, working closely with team members and developers across teams.
• Tech Stack: Go, AWS, Node.js, Cassandra, Redis, Datadog, Coralogix.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant technical experience with a passion for system architecture.
• Technical leadership experience in roles such as Architect, Tech Lead, or similar.
• Experience with microservices architecture, event sourcing, and modern frameworks is a plus.
• Proven track record in building complex, large-scale web applications.
• Hands-on experience with databases such as Redis, Cassandra, etc.
• Knowledge of resilience, monitoring, and observability best practices.
• Team player with strong communication skills, an egoless mindset, and empathy.
• Experience with GoLang is a plus.

What monday.com 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. 
• 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, Kiev, Sydney, São Paulo, and Tokyo.

Social Title

Engineering Tech Lead - Backend

Social Description

monday.com is a public company that helps teams and organizations maximize their potential and efficiency using the work OS. The WorkOS allows you to build, run, and scale your dream workflows on one platform.

We are opening a new R&D department and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be part of the our London office. You will have the opportunity to build new infrastructure-related features and directly impact the future of our product from UI to database.

Our Team

The R&D org 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.

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