Engineering Manager

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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll enable autonomous, high-performing engineering teams by cultivating talent, fostering inclusive environments, and building strong partnerships with clients and stakeholders. Your focus will be on developing your direct reports for long-term success, ensuring delivery of high-quality technical solutions, and facilitating communication between multidisciplinary teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture inclusive teams of diverse engineers, creating safe spaces for authenticity and growth
• Coach, mentor, and develop direct reports, supporting their career paths and professional development
• Proactively address performance issues, raising the bar for the team and individuals
• Collaborate with product and program teams to define business requirements and ensure technical feasibility
• Maintain a clear focus on delivery priorities and set expectations with all stakeholders
• Ensure the highest standards for product, code quality, and client interactions, owning the “Definition of Done” for projects
• Champion open communication within and between teams, preventing silos and fostering information transparency
• Understand technical context and challenges, equipping teams to plan and execute technical strategies effectively
• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders, particularly technical counterparts, acting with a consulting mindset
• Contribute to supporting artifacts (e.g., diagrams, documents, decks) as needed
• Remove barriers, resolve blockers, and proactively support program delivery at the team and organizational level
• Other duties as assigned

About You

Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with 14+ years in IT or related fields
• Strong understanding of modern web technologies and development practices, including lifecycle management and deployment pipelines
• Hands-on expertise (current or past) in one or more technologies: Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, Swift, React
• Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills
• Proven ability to build inclusive, high-performing teams and mentor direct reports for growth and performance
• Strong stakeholder management and client partnership skills, with a consultative approach
• Ability to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail, driving high standards for technical and collaborative execution
• Comfortable creating clear documentation and visual artifacts to support team alignment and client understanding

At .Monks Technology Services, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.