Staff Backend Engineer

monzoreferrals; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Flexible hours

Learning budget

Job summary

monzoreferrals is seeking a staff-level backend engineer to join a large product engineering organization. You will build and support customer-facing services within a cross-functional squad and contribute to a wider engineering community.

You will design distributed systems, write resilient Go code, mentor peers, and collaborate with product, design, research, and data teams to ship customer-focused improvements. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

Qualifications

• Back-end experience on a technology product.
• Product-minded with data-informed decisions.
• Comfort in ambiguous, shifting priorities.
• Genuine interest in distributed systems and resilient design.
• Experience with one or more strongly-typed languages (Go/Java/Scala).
• Curiosity and quick learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend services within a cross-functional squad.
• Write resilient, well-typed code using Go and contribute to engineering practices.
• Design and operate distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, researchers, and analysts to test hypotheses and ship changes.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing across the engineering community, including open source work.
• Work across squads and collectives, including ML/AI areas, as needed; mentor other engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Typed languages

Go / Java / Scala

Mentoring

Tools

Cassandra

Kafka

Envoy

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

Role overview

A staff-level backend engineering role within a product engineering organisation of several hundred engineers. The work centres on building and supporting customer-facing services inside a squad that includes product, design, research, mobile, web, and data colleagues, while contributing to a wider collective of around 100 people. It suits someone who enjoys distributed systems work, writes resilient code in a strongly-typed language, and cares about real customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend services that power a particular part of the product alongside a cross-functional squad


• Write resilient, well-typed code using Go and contribute to shared engineering practices


• Design and operate distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS


• Collaborate directly with product managers, designers, researchers, and analysts to test hypotheses and ship changes


• Contribute to knowledge-sharing across the engineering community, including open source work


• Work across squads and collectives as needed, including areas where machine learning and AI play a major role


• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar

Requirements

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product


• A product mindset with care for customer outcomes and data-informed decision making


• Comfort working in teams that handle ambiguity and shifting priorities


• Genuine interest in distributed systems and resilient software design


• Experience with one or more strongly-typed languages such as Go, Java, C, or Scala


• Curiosity and the desire to learn new things quickly

Benefits and work setup

• Salary £130,000 to £170,000 plus equity


• London office or remote anywhere in the UK, with ad hoc meet-ups in London and travel costs covered


• Flexible hours, part-time patterns considered where feasible


• Annual learning budget of £1,000 for books, training courses, and conferences


• Visa sponsorship and relocation support available