Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Banking (Remote UK)

monzoreferrals; United States; Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

UK relocation support

Flexible hours

Annual learning budget

UK remote flexibility

Job summary

monzoreferrals is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build and evolve its in-house banking platform. The role spans infrastructure, security, payments, financial crime, and data, with flexible working options across the UK.

You will design and develop backend services powering everyday banking features, collaborate with product and data teams, and operate services on container orchestration infrastructure while embracing a product mindset focused on customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-ready backend services.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity with shifting priorities.
• Interest in distributed systems, resilience, and reliability.
• Familiarity with strongly-typed languages (Go/Java/Scala).
• Product mindset focused on customer outcomes.
• Experience in regulated financial products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services powering banking features.
• Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to deliver outcomes.
• Build resilient distributed systems using asynchronous messaging and event-driven patterns.
• Operate and evolve services on container orchestration infrastructure.
• Make data-informed decisions to improve customer experience.
• Participate in system design discussions, pairing, and code reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Scala

Product mindset

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Go

Cassandra

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Envoy

React

Job description

monzoreferrals is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build and evolve its in-house banking platform. The role spans infrastructure, security, payments, financial crime, and data, with flexible working options across the UK.

You will design and develop backend services powering everyday banking features, collaborate with product and data teams, and operate services on container orchestration infrastructure while embracing a product mindset focused on customer outcomes.