Associate Software Engineer - Intern

London

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

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 customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

About the Position

We are looking for an Associate Software Engineer Intern to join our team in London for the summer of 2027. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on real projects, learn from experienced mentors, and be part of a team shaping the future of banking.

Responsibilities

As a software engineer intern at Monzo, you’ll be matched with a team where you’ll spend the summer working on a real project for our customers. You’ll:

• Write, test, and ship code that supports new features for our customers
• Review code for your colleagues, to pick up any improvements and learn from your peers
• Work with product managers, designers, and data analysts on your team
• Learn about new technologies, engineering practices, and what a full-time software engineering role looks like
• Proactively seek out feedback to improve and accelerate your learning

Requirements

• You are completing a degree in Computer Science or another technical field with exposure to programming and are graduating in 2028
• You enjoy learning about new technologies and have a passion for problem-solving
• You are available full-time for a minimum of 12 weeks between June and September 2027
• You have the right to work in the UK without restrictions for the full 12-week internship and would not require visa sponsorship if offered a permanent position
• You can work from our London office on a hybrid basis to collaborate with your team and mentor, as well as attend intern events over the summer

What you’ll be using

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:

• Go to write our application code
• Cassandra for most persistent data storage
• Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
• Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services
• AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure
• React for our public web apps and internal tools
• Kotlin for our Android app
• Swift for our iOS app

We Offer

• 💰 £42,500 pro rata
• 📍 London office on a hybrid basis (2 days per week in office)
• ⏰ Flexible full-time working hours
• 💻 Top-spec Macbook
• 🧠 Knowledge-sharing sessions with your squad and wider discipline
• 👯 Team and company-wide socials / events
• 🍝 Lunch on Monzo twice a week from a range of street food vendors

Application Process

Our application process involves three main stages:

1. Submit your application with the short questions answered
2. If you’re successful, we’ll invite you to complete an exercise to demonstrate your programming and problem-solving skills
3. If all goes well, you’ll have your final interviews with members of our engineering team via Google Meet

The closing date for applications is 1st of November 2026, but we encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will be extending offers on a rolling basis.

About the Company

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.

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 😊