Senior Staff Backend Engineer

🕒 March 31

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £135k - £184k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Monzo Bank

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Banking • Fintech • B2C

Monzo Bank is a digital bank based in the UK, known for its innovative app offering a wide range of personal banking services. It provides features such as fee-free spending abroad, automatic bill sorting, early salary payments, and round-up savings. Monzo offers various account types, including joint accounts, under 16s accounts, and savings pots with competitive interest rates. Customers can manage savings, investments, and pensions directly through the app, along with credit and loan options. Monzo emphasizes strong security features and customer support, making banking easy and accessible for its users.

📋 Description

• Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities. • Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front. • Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective. • Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability. • Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems, ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy. • Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective, driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard. • Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders, multiplying your impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level.

🎯 Requirements

• You have a track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams • You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs • You’ve worked on scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems • You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute • You influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond • You care about outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions • You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers

🏖️ Benefits

• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. • We’ll help you relocate to the UK. • We can sponsor your visa. • Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. • We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.