Senior Backend Engineer I

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:

We're on the look out for L50 Engineers at the moment you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework - we will interview you across the whole frame work so if you are not sure what level you are aiming for please chat to your recruiters!

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 thats 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:

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves three main stages:

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 [email protected]

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:

💰 £95000 - £130000 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 £1000 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.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo we’re 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 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re 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 don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊