Engineering Director, Security

Were on a mission to make money work for everyone.

Were waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well aspersonal and business bank accounts we offer joint accounts accounts for 16-17 year olds a free kids account and credit cards in the UK with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save invest andcombine their pensions with us.

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!

Were not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo

London or Remote (UK) Base salary 170k - 200k Equity Benefits

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. This puts us in an incredibly unique position. We are the custodians of immense amounts of sensitive financial data as well as peoples money that are highly attractive to sophisticated adversaries and state-level actors.

Monzo has always adopted a Secure by Design model. We believe that security is not a function but is instead a fundamental property of high-quality engineering. We have a world-class team of software and security engineers who ensure our platform is inherently secure and resilient and we achieve that by making our security principles an invisible part of the developer experience.

What youll do

• Drive the secure-by-design mandate leading the transition from reactive security to proactive architectural invariants. Your goal is to ensure that our core platform primitives - compute storage networking and identity - are built with inherent security properties that cannot be bypassed.
• Eliminate systemic risk by identifying fundamental cross-cutting security problems and driving major engineering improvements to solve them at the root.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to embed a healthy security culture into Monzos product development process.
• Cultivate an engineering-first culture fostering a culture where security engineers are first and foremost software engineers. Youll ensure your teams are delivering high-leverage tools and frameworks that enable the data and engineering disciplines to move at the speed-of-thought without compromising security.
• Manage a high-performing group of engineering leaders and senior individual contributors nurturing a diverse organisation that thrives on solving the worlds most complex security challenges.
• Collaborate with 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 ensuring our security roadmap is aligned with our global mission.

Responsible for the engineering effectiveness and operational excellence of your teams setting a high bar for performance rigour and inclusive leadership.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a leader who has been in the weeds of technical detail and has moved into high-scale leadership without losing their technical edge. Whilst this role doesnt require very specific deep security engineering expertise were looking for:

• Architectural authority: You possess the technical depth to understand and challenge complex engineering decisions. You can lead a room of Principal Engineers through a deep-dive into distributed systems or cryptographic trust boundaries.
• Proven leadership: You have a track record of leading engineering organisations of 3050 people in a high-growth top-tier tech environment. You know how to structure teams for maximum impact and autonomy.
• Software engineering experience: You likely spent the first half of your career as a Senior or Staff Engineer. You have a deep understanding of how systems are built.
• Outcome-obsessed: You prioritise high-leverage work over process for processs sake. You understand that good security looks like a platform that is secure by default not a long list of compliance tickets.
• Empathy & inclusion: You have a high degree of emotional intelligence and a relentless drive to create an inclusive blameless team environment where everyone can do their best work.
• Decisiveness in ambiguity: You are comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy making high-stakes decisions in fast-moving often time-sensitive scenarios.

How we work :

Locations & Flexible Working :

Our main tech hub is in London but our engineers live everywhere in the UK from Brighton to the Western Isles.

We value meeting in person but theres no pressure to come into the office even if youre nearby. We believe youll do your best work if you are where you want to be. If you live outside of London and we ask you to come into the office Monzo will support you with the costs.

Our offices are naturally social especially Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays which happen to line up with our twice-weekly Monzo lunches & treat Thursdays . Teams also schedule time together often for work and play in or around the office or online.

Set up a work schedule that delivers impact and fits your life.

At Monzo we value connections flexibility and wellbeing. We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance.

Youll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-ups walking your dog or adventurous cat avoiding peak commuting times or gym slots appointments or supporting your family in an emergency.

Work the way that works for you with Monzo!

The interview process:

Our interview process involves 3 main stages:

1. Recruiter Call (30 mins)Youll meet our Engineering Leadership Recruiter to discuss your experience and learn more about Monzo. Theyll be your partner and guide throughout the interview process.
2. Initial Call (1 hour) Youll meet with our VP of Engineering. Theyll ask you about your previous experience in particular people leadership product delivery and technical leadership. Theyll ask example based questions (Tell me about a time when)
3. Loop Stage- This is one stage with 4 interviews (totalling 4 hours) split between a collaboration with one of our engineers on a technical exercise as well as execution and leadership interviews.

At all stages well create space for you to ask as many questions as you have youre interviewing us as well!

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on .

Whats in it for you:

Base salary 170k - 200k Equity Benefits

We can help you relocate to the UK

We can sponsor visas

This role can be based in our London office or were open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

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.

Learning budget of 1000 a year for books training courses and conferences

And much more see our full list of benefits here

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo were embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin or veteran neurodiversity or disability status.

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