š Weāre on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Weāre waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.Ā 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!Weāre not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ā¤ļøHear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo āØ
Software Engineering Internship (Summer 2025)
Closing Date 17th November 2024
šLondon | š° Ā£40,000 pro rataĀ |
Technology
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Engineering Framework
Engineering at Monzo
We have around 400 engineers across Monzo who design and build our in-house banking platform. We have big ambitions for the future, and technology plays a big role in creating a bank our customers want, so engineers at Monzo collaborate across disciplines to solve interesting challenges throughout the company.These range from the products our customers use everyday to underlying infrastructure, security, payments and finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data, to name just a few areas.
As a bank, there is scope for impact across a huge number of opportunities.We contribute to
open source software as much as possible. Our
blog
is a good place to learn even more about what we do.
Engineering Interns
As a software engineer intern at Monzo, youāll be matched with a team where youāll spend the summer working on a real project for our customers. Weāll pair you with a mentor who will support you to design and ship a solution to solve a real problem.Youāll have the opportunity to work alongside engineers to learn more about software engineering and the types of challenges engineers at Monzo solve on a day-to-day basis.Youāll spend your internship:
- Writing, testing and shipping code that supports new features for our customers
- Reviewing code for your colleagues, to pick up any improvements and learn from your peers
- Working with product managers, designers and data analysts on your team
- Learning about new technologies, engineering practices and what a full-time software engineering role looks like
- Proactively seeking out feedback to improve and accelerate your learning
What youāll be using:Ā
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- Go to write our application code (thereās an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
- Cassandra for most persistent data storage
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
- Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our servicesĀ
- AWS for most of our production infrastructure andGCP for most of our data infrastructure
- React for our public web apps and internal tools
- Kotlin for our Android app
- Swift for our iOS app
š¤© Weād love to hear from you ifā¦Ā
- You are completing a degree in Computer Science or another technical field with exposure to programming and are graduating in 2026
- You enjoy learning about new technologies and have a passion for problem-solving
- You are available full-time for a minimum of 12 weeks between June and September 2025, we have start dates every two weeks from the 2nd June to align with your holidays.
- You have the full right to work in the UK with no limitations during the 12 weeks.Ā
- You can work from our London office on a hybrid basis to collaborate with your team and mentor, as well as attend intern events over the summer
Please note you must hold the right to work in the UK through the full duration of this internship.Ā
šWhatās in it for you
š°Ā£40,000 pro ratašThis role will be based in our London office on a hybrid basisā° We offer flexible full-time working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your teamĀ š» Top-spec Macbook to use over the course of your time with usĀ š§ Knowledge-sharing sessions with your squad and wider disciplineĀ šÆ Team and company wide socials / eventsĀ š Lunch on Monzo twice a week from a range of street food vendorsĀ
š The application journey has 3 key steps
Our application process involves three main stages:
Submit your application with the short questions answeredĀ If youāre successful, weāll invite you to complete an exercise to demonstrate your programming and problem-solving skillsIf all goes well, youāll have your final interviews with members of our engineering team via Google MeetThe closing date for applications is 17 November 2024, but we encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will be extending offers on a rolling basis.We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.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.
Please also use that email to let us know if there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason.#HJ-1
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and weāre making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, weāre 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.Weāre 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 š
