Senior Backend Engineer - Go, Distributed Systems, Remote

Software Directory; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Flexible hours

Learning budget

No closing date

Job summary

Monzo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (L50) to join our UK-wide engineering teams. You will collaborate across squads to build and support our in-house banking platform, with exposure to Core Banking, Payments, and Security.

The role offers London office and UK remote options, flexible hours, and a generous learning budget. You’ll work in a distributed environment with modern stacks (Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP, React) and various disciplines to deliver impactful

Qualifications

• Strong experience on the backend of a technology product.
• Desire to build a product used by people daily.
• Product mindset with focus on customer outcomes and data-informed decisions.
• Comfortable in a team handling ambiguity.
• Interest in distributed systems and resilient software.
• Experience with typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to build and support Monzo backend components.
• Work in a squad aligned with product managers, designers and engineers across disciplines.
• Contribute to a broad set of domains including core banking, payments, and security.
• Participate in standard interview processes and help identify best-fit roles for your skills.

Skills

Backend experience

Product mindset

Data-informed decisions

Distributed systems

Go / Java / C / Scala

Tools

Go

Cassandra

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Envoy Proxy

AWS

GCP

React

Job description

Monzo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (L50) to join our UK-wide engineering teams. You will collaborate across squads to build and support our in-house banking platform, with exposure to Core Banking, Payments, and Security.

The role offers London office and UK remote options, flexible hours, and a generous learning budget. You’ll work in a distributed environment with modern stacks (Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP, React) and various disciplines to deliver impactful