Senior Backend Engineer - Go/Java, Cloud & Distributed

Devconnectplatform; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Learning budget £1,000/year

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Monzo is hiring a Backend Engineer to work on the bank’s in-house platform. You will contribute to scaling backend systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and own elements of the distributed services stack using Go and JVM languages.

The role supports UK remote work with London or nationwide teams, offering competitive salary and visa sponsorship options. You’ll join a culture focused on impact, flexibility, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience on a technology product.
• Product-minded with focus on customer outcomes.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced team.
• Experience with distributed systems and resilient software.
• Some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala).

Responsibilities

• Develop backend components for Monzo's in-house platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on infrastructure and services.
• Build and maintain scalable services using Go and related tech (Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Contribute to distributed systems and ensure fault tolerance.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Tools

Cassandra

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Envoy Proxy

AWS

GCP

React

Job description

Monzo is hiring a Backend Engineer to work on the bank’s in-house platform. You will contribute to scaling backend systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and own elements of the distributed services stack using Go and JVM languages.

The role supports UK remote work with London or nationwide teams, offering competitive salary and visa sponsorship options. You’ll join a culture focused on impact, flexibility, and continuous learning.