Staff Backend Engineer Spain

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

We’re 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!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.

About our Engineering Teams :

We have over 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 every day 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 rely heavily on the following tools and technologies :

• Go to write our application code.
• We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties.

This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer, you’ll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers, and more!

Together you’ll 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. They’re 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, we’d 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.
• you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
• you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.
• you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala, etc.).
• you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing.

The Interview Process :

• Initial Call
• Take-home task or pair coding exercise
• Final interview including a system design and a behavioral interview

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.

What’s in it for you :

Base salary range for this role is depending on experience + equity + stock options & benefits.

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.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses, and conferences.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re 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.

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.

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