Backend engineer

Wemission to make money work for everyone.Wewaving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.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 customersWenot about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through MonzoHear from our team about what it's like working at MonzoLondon \/ UK Remote | Engineer III Benefits | Technology - EngineeringAbout 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 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 doYour day-to-dayThis role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer youwork in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and moreTogether youbuild 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.Theyall 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 needOur backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, welove 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 productYou want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every dayYou have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisionsYoucomfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguityYouinterested in distributed systems and writing resilient softwareYou have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).You think youenjoy the kind of work wedoingWe'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 recruiterNot ticking every box? Thattotally okay Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, wededicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If youpassionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to applyeven if you donhave everything thats listed just yet. Drop us your application, welove to hear from youWhat youworking 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 (thereexcellent interactive Go tutorial here)Cassandra for most persistent data storageKafka for our asynchronous message queueKubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our servicesEnvoy Proxy for RPCAWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructureReact for our public web apps and internal toolsWe also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third partiesThe Interview Process:Our interview process involves three main stages:Initial CallTake home task or pair coding exerciseFinal interview: including a system design and a behavioural interviewOur 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