Senior Backend Engineer II | Monzo | Remote (United Kingdom)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re not about selling products &#8211; we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62l09nB0M4" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hear from our team about what it&#8217;s like working at Monzo</a> ✨</p>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍London / UK Remote | 💰 Senior Engineer II (L60) £115,000 &#8211; £150,000 + <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Benefits</a> | <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Technology</a> &#8211; Engineering |</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About our Engineering Teams:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have around 300 engineers out of roughly 2,500 people in total &#8211; and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we&#8217;re happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you&#8217;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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We contribute to <a href="https://github.com/monzo" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">open source software</strong></a> as much as possible. Our <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">blog</strong></a>is a good place to learn even more about what we do!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll be working on:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="http://golang.org/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Go</strong></a> to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial <a href="https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">here</strong></a>)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Cassandra</strong></a> for most persistent data storage</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="http://kafka.apache.org/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Kafka</strong></a> for our asynchronous message queue</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Envoy Proxy</strong></a> for RPC</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="http://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Kubernetes</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">Docker</strong></a> to schedule and run our services</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">AWS</strong></a> for most of our infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">React</strong></a> for internal web dashboards</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your day-to-day</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Together you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our product squads belong to our wider <em>collectives</em> (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are; Money, Borrowing, Fincrime, Customer Operations, Platform, Personal Banking &amp; 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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">You should apply if:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We&#8217;re on the look out for L60 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our <a href="https://monzo.com/documents/engineering-progression-framework-v3-0.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Engineering Progression Framework</a> we are also hiring on L40 &amp; L50, our interview process will determine your levelling.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The Interview Process:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our interview process involves three main stages:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Initial Call</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Take home task or pair coding exercise</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 on <a href="mailto:tech-hiring@monzo.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">tech-hiring@monzo.com</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/2022/03/23/demystifying-the-backend-engineering-interview-process" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">here</strong></a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What’s in it for you:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">💰 £115,000 &#8211; £150,000 base salary ➕ plus stock options</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">✈️We can help you relocate to the UK</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">✅ We can sponsor visas.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍This role can be based in our London office or remotely across the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">⏰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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📚Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">➕And much more, see our full list of benefits <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">here</strong> </a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We&#8217;re usually always hiring for Backend Engineers, so there&#8217;s no closing date for this job.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-Remote</p>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Equal opportunities for everyone</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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. You can read more in our <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blog</a>, 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/our-2023-diversity-and-inclusion-report" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Diversity and Inclusion Report</a> and 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/an-update-on-our-gender-pay-gap-2023" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Gender Pay Gap Report.</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don&#8217;t need full or birth names at application stage 😊</p>