Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Growth Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

Monzo; Cardiff; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to transform banking! As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll lead technical initiatives in a dynamic environment, focusing on user acquisition and product impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and optimize solutions that enhance customer experiences. This role offers the chance to make a real difference while enjoying flexible working arrangements and a supportive culture. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this is an exciting opportunity to thrive in a company that values your contributions and growth.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship

Flexible working hours

£1,000 learning budget

Macbook provided

Support for work-from-home setup

Qualifications

• Strong product experience with a focus on user acquisition.
• Expert knowledge in complex systems architecture and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive user acquisition and collaborate across teams to unlock customer value.
• Lead architectural discussions and mentor engineers in the collective.

Skills

Product experience

Technical leadership

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

Go

AWS

GCP

Feast

Large Language Models (GPT, Vertex)

Job description

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!

In Growth, you’ll be responsible for driving one of the most important company metrics: user acquisition. You'll work in a small, autonomous, cross-functional product squad and will need to collaborate across disciplines to form and test hypotheses with the aim of unlocking value for customers as soon as possible. This means experimenting and using data to inform your decisions.
You and your team will have the opportunity to have an impact on both what we build as well as how we build it.

We're looking for a growth minded Staff backend engineer with strong product experience. You'll care about the impact your work has on our customers, and optimise for impact rather than the number of lines of code you output; progress over perfection.

As a Staff Engineer:

A Staff Engineer at Monzo is a technical (IC) leadership position. As a Staff Engineer in the Growth collective at Monzo, you will:

• Partner with a Senior Engineering Manager supporting the collective and provide technical leadership across multiple squads and ~20 engineers.
• Work collaboratively with product, data and operational leaders to identify and execute on opportunities that further the organisation’s goals and strategy, bringing the right level of clarity, urgency and rigour as appropriate.
• Oscillate between contributing to high-level planning and strategy and organisational leadership and diving deep into the execution of problems and getting hands-on as necessary.
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for complex systems in the collective. You’ll do this in order to arrive at solutions that are robust and optimal given the context.
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar.
• Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers.

What you’ll be using:

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies, please note direct experience in these technologies is not required and our interview process can be completed in any language:

• Go to write our application code.
• AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure.
• Feast for storing our features along a variety of tools to train and deploy models.
• GPT and Vertex models for Large Language Model support.
• You have a track record guiding teams and stakeholders to prioritise things that drive important metrics and you take the lead in using data to make decisions.
• You have a track record of balancing speed of execution with technical excellence, delivering resilient systems for consumer products.
• You solve problems end-to-end, from client applications to backend infrastructure.
• You have technically led across 3-4 teams to solve complex optimisation problems.
• You’re comfortable working in a cross-functional team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and partner teams resolve that ambiguity.
• You have demonstrable experience working with stakeholders, especially non-technical stakeholders at the senior level.

The application journey has 4 key steps:

Our interview process involves four main stages after an informal recruiter call:

• Initial Call
• System Design Interview
• Take home task or pair coding exercise
• Final interview including a behavioural and a leadership interview

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

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What’s in it for you:

We’ll help you relocate to the UK.

We can sponsor your visa.

This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

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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