Senior Backend Engineer

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 customersWe’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.We have around 400 engineers across Monzo who design and build our in-house banking platform. We have big ambitions for the future, and technology plays a big role in creating a bank our customers want, so engineers at Monzo collaborate across disciplines to solve interesting challenges throughout the company.These range from the products our customers use every day to underlying infrastructure, security, payments and finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data, to name just a few areas. As a bank, there is scope for impact across a huge number of opportunities.This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer, you’ll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers, and moreTogether you'll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are: Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion. All of our collectives are doing innovative work, many of which have machine learning and AI at the forefront- from fighting financial crime to building smarter financial tools - and you may have the opportunity to join a collective that gives you direct exposure to this exciting space.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 needOur backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.How we workLocations & Flexible Working:Our main tech hub is in London, but our engineers live everywhere in the UK— from Brighton to the Western Isles.We value meeting in person but there’s no pressure to come into the office, even if you're nearby. We believe you'll do your best work if you are where you want to be. If you live outside of London and we ask you to come into the office, Monzo will support you with the costs.Our offices are naturally social, especially Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, which happen to line up with our twice-weekly Monzo lunches & treat Thursdays.Set up a work schedule that delivers impact and fits your life:At Monzo, we value connections, flexibility, and wellbeing. We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance.You’ll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team, giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-ups, walking your dog or adventurous cat, avoiding peak commuting times or gym slots, appointments, or supporting your family in an emergency.Work the way that works for you with MonzoYou should apply if:you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology productyou want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every dayyou have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisionsyou’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguityyou’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient softwareyou have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doingWe're on the lookout for L50 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework - we will interview you across the whole framework, so if you are not sure what level you are aiming for please chat to your recruitersNot ticking every box? That’s totally okay Studies show that women and people of color might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that’s listed just yet.What you’ll be working on:We hire very technically agnostic so whilst we use the below technologies we do not expect prior knowledge, you will be fully supported in our organised onboarding to get up to speed in the below:Go to write our application codeAWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructureReact for our public web apps and internal toolsWe also have physical data centers with actual cables to connect to various third partiesThe Interview Process:Our interview process involves three main stages:Initial CallTake home task or pair coding exerciseFinal interview: including a system design and a behavioral interviewOur average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.What’s in it for you:We can help you relocate to the UKWe can sponsor visas.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, at times that suit you and your team.Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses, and conferencesEqual opportunities for everyoneDiversity 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.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. #J-18808-Ljbffr