Senior Staff Backend Engineer
About the role
Senior Staff Engineer (IC) leading multiple squads, shaping technical and product direction, and delivering high-impact, scalable backend systems at Monzo.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and aligning with company-wide priorities.
- Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front.
- Partner with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, 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.
- Mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders, multiplying impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level.
Qualifications
- Track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams.
- Strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs.
- Experience on scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute.
- Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond.
- Evidence of focusing on outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions.
- Experience mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers.
Skills
Benefits
- £155,000 - £200,000 base salary
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation support to the UK
- Flexible working hours and distributed UK work option
- Learning budget (£1,000 annually)
- Macbooks and remote work setup support
- Access to full benefits list in careers page
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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