Staff Backend Engineer - Remote UK | Equity

SoftwareCareers; Cardiff, Greater London; Remote; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget £1,000/year for books,

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Monzo is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work across Cardiff, London or remote UK. You’ll build scalable backend services, design resilient distributed systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship high-impact features.

The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, experience with Go/Java/C/Scala and modern infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka and AWS.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building backend services for large-scale products.
• Comfortable with distributed systems and designing resilient software.
• Proficiency in typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala).
• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across squads to test hypotheses and deliver customer value.
• Build and maintain backend systems that power Monzo’s product features.
• Work with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers across disciplines.
• Contribute to open source projects and internal tooling.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Go language

Java

C language

Scala

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Envoy

Cassandra

React

AWS

Job description

Monzo is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work across Cardiff, London or remote UK. You’ll build scalable backend services, design resilient distributed systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship high-impact features.

The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, experience with Go/Java/C/Scala and modern infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka and AWS.