Engineering Backend Team Lead (Boards)

monday.com is a Work OS that lets organizations manage all their work in one place. And like our platform, we are committed to building an organization with one shared mission.

We believe that the most effective teams are built on skills and passion, which is why in our recruitment process, in addition to learning about your background and experience, we really want to understand who you are and what empowers you.

At monday.com, we are seeking exceptional backend team leaders to join our Boards group and directly impact millions of users every day. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a highly important team within our company as we expand our presence globally and continue our mission to create the best board in the world.

As a Team Lead in our Boards group, you will build, guide and mentor a talented team, contributing directly to the development of our flagship product. Your leadership will help shape and drive the evolution of our architecture and engineering practices to support the ever-growing scale of our users, features, and data.

About The Role:

• Grow, lead, and mentor a team of talented engineers to drive the data layer vision for Boards at monday.com.
• Enhance monday boards to create a dynamic, customizable data layer that supports any application.
• Evolve our architecture and engineering to support the ever growing scale of users, features and data.
• Design and build critical tier 1 services capable of serving ten thousand requests per second with a four-nine availability level.
• Our stack - node.js, Cassandra, Kafka, CDC, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, React

Requirements

• Experience managing a team and leading projects hands-on from start to finish
• Extensive experience with backend development, particularly in designing and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems and APIs.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of effectively conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A growth mindset, including strong analytical, inquisitive, and data-driven experiences
• Adept at working in fast-paced, dynamic environments, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements
• Proven problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.