Senior Staff Engineer – Platform

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Monzo Bank

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Focused on improving our platform resilience. • Partner with the Engineering Director for Platform and other ICs to provide technical leadership around resiliency across Monzo. • Build a deep understanding of our platform and then work to strengthen the reliability surface that sits between teams - building and enhancing the tools, patterns, and guardrails that make resilient choices the easy ones. • Promote and maintain a culture where every engineer feels supported to design, build and operate reliable systems that work on a global scale. • Champion high standards by celebrating success and providing constructive feedback to help the team improve. • Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant professional experience in software engineering, demonstrated by writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services using strongly typed languages. • Hands-on experience working with AWS and/or GCP, and you are proficient with Kubernetes. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform). • Deeply curious about systems, enjoy diving deep to investigate complex issues, and understand how modern distributed applications fail and scale. • Excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo, focusing on reliability, performance, and developer experience. • Comfortable working in a fast-paced team that deals with ambiguity and evolving requirements.

🏖️ Benefits

• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. • 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. • 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.