Staff Engineer, Monzo

• Have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products
• You have technically led teams to solve complex product challenges, enabling them to manage trade-offs in order to deliver products that solve customer needs at scale
• 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 and have experience helping your team and partner team resolve that 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

• As a Staff Engineer in Data Platform, you will sit at the intersection of our Engineering and Data disciplines
• Work with the product leadership team of your collective to ensure we are making the right trade-offs across squads. You’ll use your keen sense of product market fit to do this
• Help your teams manage the trade-offs implied in shipping new product to market - balancing speed, polish and the need to learn what fits customers’ needs best
• 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 their 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

• Initial Call
• Take home task or pair coding exercise
• Final interview including a system design, a behavioural and a leadership interview
• Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability

• Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
• Flexible working hours
• Work From Home Opportunities + we'll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
• 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
• Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
• 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
• 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
• Unum Life Insurance
• Access to fertility and family-forming health benefits via Fertifa
• Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle-to-Work Scheme

Total funding: $1.9bn

Monzo is a challenger bank that fully operates online and offers a full range of current, savings, business accounts, and more. The speed of the challenger banks to provide a great experience has been impressive, and the number of competitors appearing has proven the consumer desire for innovation.