# Senior Staff Backend Engineer

**Company**: Monzo
**Location**: Cardiff
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £155,000 - £200,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/6036797?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone, offering a range of banking services in the UK.

As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Monzo, you will partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with Engineering Directors to shape technical and product direction

- Be hands-on in coding and architecture, leading from the front

- Collaborate with Product and Design leadership to define strategy and roadmaps

- Mobilise teams around high-impact problems, creating clarity and alignment

- Lead architectural direction for complex systems, ensuring cohesive designs

- Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective

- Mentor, sponsor, and develop senior engineers and future leaders

You'll be using:

- Go for application code

- Cassandra for persistent data storage

- Kafka for asynchronous message queue

- Kubernetes and Docker for scheduling and running services

- AWS for production infrastructure and GCP for data infrastructure

- React for internal Web dashboards

- Feast for storing features

Requirements:

- Track record of leading complex, high-impact systems

- Strong technical judgment with product and business awareness

- Experience with scalable backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems

- Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces

- Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders

- Focus on outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions

- Enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers

Benefits:

- Base salary £155,000 - £200,000 + Equity

- Flexible working hours and trust to work enough hours to do your job well

- £1,000 learning budget each year

- Macbooks provided for all employees

- Extra support for work-from-home setup for remote workers

Locations & Flexible Working:

- Main tech hub in London, but engineers live throughout the UK

- No mandated requirement on office attendance

- Monzo will support relocation costs if needed

Application journey:

- 4 key steps: Recruiter Call, Initial Call, System Design Interview, Take home task or pair coding exercise, Final interview

- Process takes around 3-4 weeks

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Cassandra
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- React
- Feast

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