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Senior Backend Engineer

Monzo
Contract type
Part-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
Senior · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Senior backend engineer role at Monzo, working in a squad to build and support part of the bank's in-house banking platform. Engineers are hired across multiple collectives and matched to a team based on skills and business need.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Hybrid
Pay
GBP 105,000 – 135,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with your team to make a difference to customers
  • Work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more
  • Build and support a particular part of Monzo
  • Write application code in Go
  • Work with Cassandra for persistent data storage, Kafka for asynchronous message queue, Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run services, Envoy Proxy for RPC, AWS for production infrastructure and GCP for data infrastructure

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
  • 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
  • Some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)

Benefits

  • £105,000 - £135,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
  • Can be based in London office or distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
  • Part-time working where possible
  • Monzo lunches and treat Thursdays

How to get hired

  1. 1Initial Call
  2. 2Take home task or pair coding exercise
  3. 3Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview

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About Monzo

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

Monzo started as a prepaid card and now offers personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK. UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with Monzo.

Mission

Make money work for everyone

Key facts

  • around 650 engineers
  • London, UK
  • Banking
  • Around 650 engineers across Monzo
  • Engineers design and build Monzo's in-house banking platform
  • Main tech hub is in London, but engineers live everywhere in the UK
  • Contributes to open source software
  • No mandated office attendance

What they value

  • Solve problems and change lives
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Flexibility and wellbeing