Remote Senior Backend Engineer I at Monzo

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Remote Senior Backend Engineer I Monzo. At Monzo, we’re building a new kind of bank. One that lives on your smartphone and built for the way you live today. By solving your problems, treating you fairly and being totally transparent, we believe we can make banking better.. Since we started we’ve been busy building the best current account in the world. We now have more than one million customers using our debit cards to manage their money and spend around the world. . This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer you’ll 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! . Together you’ll build 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.. They’re all 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 need! . Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.. What you’ll be working 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 (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial . here. ). Cassandra. for most persistent data storage. Kafka. for our asynchronous message queue. Kubernetes. and . Docker. to schedule and run our services . Envoy Proxy. for RPC. AWS. for most of our production infrastructure and . GCP. for most of our data infrastructure. React for our public web apps and internal tools. We also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties. The Interview Process:. Our interview process involves three main stages: . Initial Call . Take home task or pair coding exercise . Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview . Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. . One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see . here. .. You should apply if:. you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product. you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day. you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions. you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity. you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software. you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).. you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing. We're on the look out for L50 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our . Engineering Progression Framework. - we will interview you across the whole frame work, so if you are not sure what level you are aiming for please chat to your recruiters! . Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. 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 thats listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!. 💰 £95,000 - £130,000 base salary➕ plus stock options . ✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK . ✅ We can sponsor visas.. 📍 This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).. ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.. 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences. ➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits . here . We're usually always hiring for Backend Engineers, so there's no closing date for this job.. 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. You can read more in our . blog. , 2023 . Diversity and Inclusion Report. and 2023 . Gender Pay Gap Report.. 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 😊