Monzo is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their engineering team in building and supporting innovative financial products that solve real customer problems. This role involves collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses, improve customer outcomes, and work on scalable backend systems using modern technologies and distributed architectures.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers
- Work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, and writers
- Build and support a particular part of Monzo’s product offering
- Work directly with anyone across the company
- Participate in regular knowledge-sharing sessions
- Work on innovative projects, potentially involving machine learning and AI, such as fighting financial crime or building smarter financial tools
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- Want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
- Have a product mindset: care about customer outcomes and want to make data-informed decisions
- Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- Interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- Have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)
- Think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing
Technical Stack
- Go
- Cassandra
- Kafka
- Envoy Proxy
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- React
- Physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to third parties
Team & Environment
- Team size: Around 300 engineers out of roughly 2,500 people in total
- Team structure: Squads belong to wider collectives (~100 people each): Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible working hours
- Work the way that works for you: manage your schedule to fit life events like children drop-offs, dog walking, avoiding peak commuting, gym, appointments, or family emergencies
- Twice-weekly Monzo lunches & treat Thursdays
- Teams schedule time together often for work and play — in or around the office, or online
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
- Relocation support to the UK
- Visa sponsorship available
- Ad hoc meetings in London with cost support from Monzo if you live outside London
- See full list of benefits here
Compensation: £115,000 - £150,000 salary, with Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
Work Mode
- Work locations: London, UK Remote
- Flexible working hours; empowered to manage work in a way that suits you and your team
- Meetings during core hours
- No pressure to come into the office even if nearby
We’re 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. Diversity and inclusion are a priority. We embrace diversity by fostering an inclusive environment. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.
