Staff Backend Engineer - Business Banking

at  Monzo

WE’RE ON A MISSION TO MAKE MONEY WORK FOR EVERYONE.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
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 ❤️
Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Monzo ✨
London / UK Remote | £140,000 - £190,000 + Share Options | Benefits | Technology

STAFF ENGINEER RESPONSIBILITIES:

A Staff Engineer at Monzo is a technical (IC) leadership position. As a Staff Engineer in the Business Banking collective at Monzo, you’ll:

• Partner with the Engineering Director supporting the collective and provide technical leadership across all squads.
• Work with the product leadership team of your collective to ensure we are making the right trade-offs across squads.
• Rally your team around a mission, objective or company priority, injecting urgency when needed or slowing down pace to make sure the right controls are in place
• Understand several work-streams across your group keeping enough context to regularly provide technical advice to other engineers
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for the most complex systems in the collective. You’ll do this in order to arrive at solutions that are robust and optimal given the context
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar
• Foster a culture of quality within your collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and gets buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated.
• Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers

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, and at times that suit you and your team