Senior Backend Engineer Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

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.

We are actively creating an equitable environment for all of our engineers to thrive.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone.

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 rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:

• Go to write our application code.
• We also have two physical datacentre sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties.

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 (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, and we do a standard interview process across all our collectives. At the end, we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences, and aligning with the business need!

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.

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.

Our interview process involves three main stages:

• Initial Call
• Take-home task or pair coding exercise
• 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. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us at tech-hiring@monzo.com.

What’s in it for you:

• We can help you relocate to the UK.
• We 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 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, 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 the application stage.