Senior Software Engineer

About the Position

🚀 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 ❤️

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team to make a difference to your customers.
• 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!
• Build and support a particular part of Monzo.

Requirements

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
• A product mindset: care about customer outcomes and want to make data-informed decisions.
• Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
• Interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.
• Experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala, etc.).

Technologies

• Go for application code.
• Cassandra for persistent data storage.
• Kafka for asynchronous message queue.
• Kubernetes and Docker for scheduling and running services.
• Envoy Proxy for RPC.
• AWS for production infrastructure and GCP for data infrastructure.
• React for public web apps and internal tools.

We Offer

💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits

📍Barcelona, Spain

⏰ Flexible working hours and a learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses, and conferences

About the Company

We have over 650 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 every day 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 do!

Apply for this job

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 that’s listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

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.