Staff Backend Engineer

Monzo Bank
Cardiff
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 115,000 - 150,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Adaptability"]

Join a large engineering team at Monzo to design, build, and maintain backend services for a growing fintech product. Work in a cross-disciplinary squad, collaborate with PMs, researchers and designers, and help drive data-informed decisions while tackling distributed systems challenges using Go, Cassandra, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Enjoy flexibility with UK-wide remote options and opportunities to move between teams.

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Monzo Bank
Monzo Bank
1 year ago

Staff Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Join a large engineering team at Monzo to design, build, and maintain backend services for a growing fintech product. Work in a cross-disciplinary squad, collaborate with PMs, researchers and designers, and help drive data-informed decisions while tackling distributed systems challenges using Go, Cassandra, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Enjoy flexibility with UK-wide remote options and opportunities to move between teams.
Location: Cardiff
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers.
  • •Work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more.
  • •Build and support a particular part of Monzo within one of the squads and collectives.
  • •Contribute to an environment that encourages learning and knowledge sharing across teams and domains.
  • •Join a culture that emphasizes flexible working and balance, enabling you to work in a way that fits your life.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 115,000 - 150,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Learning BudgetRelocationEquityVisa Sponsorship

Key Requirements

  • •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 with a product mindset and data-informed decisions.
  • •You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
  • •You’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.
  • •Some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).
Experience:FintechBankingOpen source
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkAdaptability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoCassandraKafkaEnvoyKubernetesDockerAWSReact

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Monzo Bank
Monzo is a UK-based digital bank offering mobile-first current accounts, savings, business banking, and financial tools focused on transparency, low fees, and real-time money management for consumers and small businesses.
Industry: Neobanking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2015
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