Backend Engineer, Monzo
$160-225k
+ Stock Options
2 days a week in office
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
Job no longer available
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-225k
+ Stock Options
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new kind of bank that makes money work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have experience working as part of small teams or at early stage companies and be capable of working independently and efficiently in ambiguous environments
- You have a track record of shipping products, getting stuff done, and working in high growth product-focused organizations
- You have 3+ years experience working with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)
- You have experience working on the backend of a consumer technology product
- You have a product mindset: you really care about customer outcomes and you want to build a product that fundamentally changes how users manage their finances
- You’re comfortable working in a lean, rapidly growing team that operates in an ever-evolving environment
- You feel confident making trade-off decisions between shipping quickly versus optimizing for engineering excellence
What the job involves
- We’re looking for product-minded backend engineers to help us rebuild banking from the ground up. As a member of a small but mighty team, you'll have a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the product, the launch, and the team we hire
- You’ll drive massive impact across the entire business — whether it’s through building new features to help our customers understand and control their money, launching entirely new products, or protecting us from financial crime
- Develop the backend systems and services to power new features for the Monzo app experience
- Test, launch, and iterate on product features based on a data driven approach that also incorporates user feedback and testing
- Contribute to hiring, product testing, and vendor selection
Application process
- Our interview process consists of an initial call with our Head of Engineering, followed by a coding, systems design, and behavioral interview with engineers and leaders from our team
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Monzo remains one of the popular online banks, with more than 6 million customer active users. The company faces competition as more traditional banks, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have launched their own digital banks. However, the new technologies that the company is built on enable it to expand quickly (with fewer issues) than the incumbent players' offerings.
With an increasing amount of people switching banks, the company's ever-expanding suite of banking and financial services (such as its buy-now-pay-later offering) has resulted in Monzo receiving the second-highest net switching gains among digital challenger banks (just behind Starling).
After setting U.S. expansion plans aside in 2020, the company launched in the U.S. market in early 2022, partnering with Sutton Bank to provide its U.S. accounts. After several years focused on narrowing its losses, Monzo hit profitability in the first two months of 2023. In the same year, 2 million new customers joined, tallying its customer base at 9 million in 2024.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 18 rounds)
May 2024
$190m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$438.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- 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
Company values
- Be hard on problems, not people 🙌 We create supportive communities to help people thrive.
- Make a difference 🚀 We solve real problems, working on things that have the biggest impact for our customers and each other.
- Help everyone belong 🤗 We’re building a bank for everyone. We embrace differences and make sure everyone feels welcome.
- Think customer first; grow Monzo safely 🥕 We always do what's best for customers. It's the right thing to do and the safest way to grow.
- Default to transparency 🎤 We’re open with each other and customers unless we have good reason not to be.
- Think big, start small, own it 🌲 We’re ambitious and shoot for the moon, working iteratively to get the best results.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Founders
Jonas Templestein
(CTO)Founder of HipDial. Former Software Engineer at Starling Bank.
People progressing
Joined in the Customer Operations team. Moved to be a Financial Crime Analyst after 5 months. Then moved again to be a Business Analyst after 2.5 years. Currently working as a Senior Product Manager.
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