Staff Backend Engineer
Staff backend engineer at Monzo building and supporting part of the bank's product in a cross-functional squad, using a stack of Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes/Docker on AWS. Product-focused role with no office attendance mandate; open to London or remote anywhere in the UK.
- Compensation
- £130K–£170K / yr
- Location
- Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Part time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- Experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)
- Interest in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- Product mindset: cares about customer outcomes and makes data-informed decisions
- Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- Wants to build a product that people use every day
Full description
📍London / UK Remote | 💰 Staff Backend Engineer (L60) £130,000 - £170,000 + Equity + Benefits | Technology - Engineering
About our Engineering Teams:
We have around 650 engineers out of roughly 5,500 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 contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
What you’ll be working on:
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- 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
- Envoy Proxy for RPC
- Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- React for internal web dashboards
- We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
Your day-to-day
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 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. All of our collectives are doing innovative work, many of which have machine learning and AI at the forefront- from fighting financial crime to building smarter financial tools - and you may have the opportunity to join a collective that gives you direct exposure to this exciting space.
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.