Staff Backend Engineer

Monzo; United States; Remote; GBP 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to transform traditional banking! As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping innovative financial solutions that empower customers. This dynamic position allows you to collaborate with diverse teams, tackle exciting challenges, and contribute to open-source projects. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Go, Kubernetes, and AWS while enjoying flexible working hours and a generous learning budget. If you're passionate about making a real impact and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Stock Options

Learning Budget (£1,000/year)

Flexible Working Hours

Relocation Assistance

Visa Sponsorship

Qualifications

• Experience in backend development for technology products.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and resilient software.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experience.
• Build and support backend systems for various product squads.

Skills

Backend Development

Distributed Systems

Data-Informed Decision Making

Problem-Solving

Strongly-Typed Languages (Go, Java, C, Scala)

Tools

Go

Cassandra

Kafka

Envoy Proxy

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

React

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!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.

Job Location: London / UK Remote | Position: Staff Engineer (L60) | Salary: £115,000 - £150,000 + Benefits | Department: Technology - Engineering

About our Engineering Teams:

We have around 300 engineers out of roughly 2,500 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.

We contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!

What you’ll be working on:

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:

• Go to write our application code
• Cassandra for most persistent data storage
• Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
• Envoy Proxy for RPC
• Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services
• AWS for most of our infrastructure
• React for internal web dashboards
• We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties

Your day-to-day:

This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer, you’ll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!

Together you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our product squads belong to our wider collectives (self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are; Money, Borrowing, Fincrime, Customer Operations, Platform, Personal Banking & Business Banking. They’re all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need!

You should apply if:

• you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
• you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
• you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
• you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
• you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).
• you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves three main stages:

1. Initial Call
2. Take home task or pair coding exercise
3. Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us at [e-mail].

What’s in it for you:

£115,000 - £150,000 base salary plus stock options. We can help you relocate to the UK and we can sponsor visas.

This role can be based in our London office or remotely across 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, at times that suit you and your team.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences and much more, see our full list of benefits here.

We're usually always hiring for Backend Engineers, so there's no closing date for this job.

Equal opportunities for everyone:

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.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage.