Backend Engineer III
Monzo Bank
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
About
Engineer III
£75,000 - £105,000 +
Benefits
|
Technology
- Engineering | About our Engineering Teams: We have around 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 every day 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 you’ll 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 you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider
collectives
(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. 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! 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 We're on the look out for L40 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our
Engineering Progression Framework
you will be interviewed across the whole framework, so if you're not sure what level you're aiming for chat to your recruiter! Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! What you’ll be working on: We hire very technically agnostic so
whilst 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: Go
to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial
here
) Cassandra
for most persistent data storage Kafka
for our asynchronous message queue Kubernetes
and
Docker
to schedule and run our services Envoy Proxy
for RPC AWS
for most of our production infrastructure and
GCP
for 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. 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: £75,000 - £105,000 base salary plus stock options ️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. #LI-Remote #LI-HJ1
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Languages
- English
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