Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer role at Monzo in Barcelona, focusing on building and supporting a part of Monzo’s in-house banking platform with a backend-first approach and collaboration across multi-disciplinary squads.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with your squad to make a difference to customers.
- Build and support a particular part of Monzo.
- Work with product managers, designers, data analysts, and other engineers across squads and collectives.
- Participate in a standard interview process across collectives.
- Engage in a distributed-system focused development environment and write resilient software.
Qualifications
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- Product mindset with focus on customer outcomes and data-informed decisions
- Comfortable in a team dealing with ambiguity
- Interest in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- Experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala, etc.)
Skills
Benefits
- Learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences
- Base salary depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to performance + benefits
- Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office

About Monzo Bank
A bank as smart as your phone.
YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!
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