đ Weâre on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Weâre waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!Weâre not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo â¤ď¸Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo â¨đLondon / UK Remote | đ° ÂŁ75,000 - ÂŁ105,000 + Benefits | Technology - Engineering | Â
About our Engineering Team:
We have around 300 engineers out of roughly 2,500 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so youâll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.We contribute to
open source software
as much as possible. Our
blog
is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
What youâll be using:Â
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- Go to write our application code (thereâs an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
- Cassandra for most persistent data storage
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
- Envoy Proxy for RPC
- Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our servicesÂ
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- React for internal web dashboards
- We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
Your day-to-day  Â
This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer youâll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more! Together youâll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our product squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people).
They are; Money, Borrowing, Fincrime, Customer Operations, Platform, Personal Banking & Business Banking. Theyâre all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need! Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, weâd love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.
You should apply if:
- you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
- you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- youâre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- youâre interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).
- you think youâd enjoy the kind of work weâre doing
We are hiring across a number of teams across the business at the moment and will allocate a specific team at offer stage looking at things like any preferences you have, the levelling decision and business priorities. We're on the look out for L40, 50 & 60 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework.
The Interview Process:
Our interview process involves four main stages:Â
Recruiter Call Initial Call Take home task or pair coding exercise (your choice) Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see
here.
Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please us at any point on tech-hiring@monzo.com
Whatâs in it for you:
đ° ÂŁ75,000 - ÂŁ105,000 base salaryâ plus stock options âď¸We can help you relocate to the UK â
We can sponsor visas.đThis role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).â°We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.đLearning budget of ÂŁ1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferencesâAnd much more, see our full list of benefits
hereÂ
We're usually always hiring for Backend Engineers, so there's no closing date for this job.#LI-Remote#LI-HJ1
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and weâre making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, weâre embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.Weâre 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.If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply.
We don't need full or birth names at application stage đ
