Senior Backend Engineer, Monzo

• 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 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

• 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
• 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, 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!

• 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

• Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
• Flexible working hours
• Work From Home Opportunities + we'll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
• 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
• Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
• 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
• 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
• Unum Life Insurance
• Access to fertility and family-forming health benefits via Fertifa
• Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle-to-Work Scheme

Total funding: $1.9bn

Monzo is a challenger bank that fully operates online and offers a full range of current, savings, business accounts, and more. The speed of the challenger banks to provide a great experience has been impressive, and the number of competitors appearing has proven the consumer desire for innovation.