Founded in 2015, Monzo is a digital retail bank that is changing the future of the banking industry. The application has been downloaded by over 5 million custo
Principal Backend Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
34 days ago
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0
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Lead
Job Description
Principal Backend Engineer
Monzo
Role Description We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 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! A Principal Engineer at Monzo is a hands-on engineering leadership (IC) position. As a Principal Engineer you’ll: - Partner with and guide Engineering and Product Leaders to shape the technical and product direction of Monzo. - Remain hands-on in both coding and architecture where it adds the most leverage. - Actively identify high-leverage opportunities for Monzo and set the direction of Engineering effort towards the most impactful outcomes. - Mobilise teams across Monzo around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum. - Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems. - Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across Monzo. - Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders. Qualifications - You have a track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams, domains or business areas. - You think in multi-year horizons to look around corners and build for the future. - You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness. - You’ve worked on large scale backend, distributed or data-intensive systems. - You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces. - You influence and align the most senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond. - You care about outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions and to iterate. - You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers. Requirements - We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies: - Go - Cassandra - Kafka - Kubernetes - Docker - AWS - GCP - React - Feast Benefits - This is a unique role, we're open to discussions on base salary + incentive awards tied to your performance + share options + benefits. - We’ll help you relocate to the UK. - We can sponsor your visa. - This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK. - We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well. - £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. - We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. - Plus lots more!
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