Staff Backend Engineer

London / UK Remote | Staff Engineer (L60) £115,000 - £150,000 + Benefits | 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 doWhat you’ll be working on:We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:Go to write our application codeCassandra for most persistent data storageKafka for our asynchronous message queueEnvoy Proxy for RPCKubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our servicesAWS for most of our infrastructureReact for internal web dashboardsWe also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third partiesYour day-to-dayThis 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 moreTogether you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our product squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe 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 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.You 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 look out for L60 Engineers at the moment. You can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework. We are also hiring on L40 & L50; our interview process will determine your levelling.The Interview Process:Our interview process involves three main stages:Initial CallTake home task or pair coding exerciseFinal interview including a system design and a behavioural interviewOur 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 on tech-hiring@monzo.com.One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here.What’s in it for you:£115,000 - £150,000 base salary plus stock options️We can help you relocate to the UKWe 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 conferencesAnd 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.#LI-Remote#LI-HJ1 #J-18808-Ljbffr