Principal Software Engineer - Backend

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 our first Staff Engineer based in London. This is an exciting opportunity shape the future of our R&D teams in the London office!

You will work across 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).

About The Role:

You will work with experienced and highly talented engineers — who love what they do — with cutting-edge technologies in a data and impact-driven environment. We promote transparency, full ownership, teamwork, and a no-ego policy.

Our engineering department comprises different groups, each responsible for a crucial domain in the monday.com product. With over 300 engineers, we operate as part of cross-functional teams, defining, improving, building, and delivering features collaboratively. 

What you will do:

• Set engineering vision, technical direction, architectural approach, and execution.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering teams.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners in multiple areas of the monday organization.
• Contribute to product and project strategy, roadmap definition, and requirements gathering.
• Our Stack - React.JS, Redux, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Elastic Search, Redis, MySQL

Note: Prior experience with our tech stack is not required; we welcome people willing to learn.

Social Title:

Staff Engineer

Social Description:

monday.com is looking for a Staff Engineer to join our rapidly growing R&D team. This is an amazing opportunity to join one of Israel's fastest growing companies and make an immediate and real impact on the future of our product.

Our 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. 

Requirements

• 15/20+ years of experience in software development with a proven track record of designing and building complex systems.
• 5 years of experience with design, architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• 10 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, and/or experience with cloud technologies
• Broad experience in a technical leadership role, including setting technical direction.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset, adept at working cross-functionally and driving alignment.

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.