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12 hours ago
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Job Summary
Were on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Were waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well aspersonal and business bank accounts we offer joint accounts accounts for 16-17 year olds a free kids account and credit cards in the UK with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save invest andcombine their pensions with us.
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!
Were not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo
Barcelona Spain Base salary for this role is depending on experience stock options Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office
About our Engineering Teams:
We have over 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 everyday 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.
We contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
Your day-to-day
This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer youll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers marketers user researchers designers mobile engineers web engineers data analysts business analysts writers and more!
Together youll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our widercollectives(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.
Theyre 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!
Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things wed 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
- youre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- youre interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go Java C Scala etc.).
- you think youd enjoy the kind of work were doing
Were on the look out for L40 Engineers at the moment you can read more in ourEngineering Progression Frameworkyou will be interviewed across the whole framework so if youre not sure what level youre aiming for chat to your recruiter!
Not ticking every box Thats totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo were dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If youre passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us we encourage you to apply even if you dont have everything thats listed just yet. Drop us your application wed love to hear from you!
What youll be working on:
We hire very technically agnostic sowhilst 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:
- Goto write our application code (theres an excellent interactive Go tutorialhere)
- Cassandrafor most persistent data storage
- Kafkafor our asynchronous message queue
- KubernetesandDockerto schedule and run our services
- Envoy Proxyfor RPC
- AWSfor most of our production infrastructure andGCPfor most of our data infrastructure
- React for our public web apps and internal tools
- We also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties
The Interview Process:
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 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.
One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process for extra details hints and tips please seehere.
Whats in it for you:
Base salary range for this role is depending on experience equity stock options & benefits
Barcelona Spain
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 1200 a year for books training courses and conferences
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo were 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 blog 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.
Were 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.
If you have a preferred name please use it to apply. We dont need full or birth names at application stage
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Organise, save & invest with a free UK current account, joint account or business account. Make your money more Monzo.
