Senior Staff Engineer — Remote, Fintech Scale & Leadership

Monzo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 learning budget

Relocation support to the UK

Open-source culture & blog

Job summary

Monzo is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer (IC) in a remote UK role. You will lead 30-70 engineers, shape technical and product direction, and stay hands-on in coding and architecture. The role emphasizes engineering leadership at fintech scale, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring senior engineers.

The position offers flexibility with part-time options, a £1,000 learning budget, and a strong emphasis on open source contributions and blog-driven external reputation.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical and product direction across multiple squads
• Lead from the front with hands-on coding and architecture
• Define strategy, roadmaps, and trade-offs with Product and Design
• Mobilise teams around high-impact problems to create momentum
• Set architectural direction for complex systems and scale across teams
• Mentor and develop senior engineers and future leaders

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Go

Kafka

Cassandra

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Feast

Tools

Go

Kafka

Cassandra

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Feast

Job description

Monzo is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer (IC) in a remote UK role. You will lead 30-70 engineers, shape technical and product direction, and stay hands-on in coding and architecture. The role emphasizes engineering leadership at fintech scale, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring senior engineers.

The position offers flexibility with part-time options, a £1,000 learning budget, and a strong emphasis on open source contributions and blog-driven external reputation.