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Monzo

Senior Backend Engineer

Monzo
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remote senior full-time £105,000 - £135,000 Cardiff

First indexed 25 Oct 2026

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Monzo, you'll collaborate with your team to make a difference to customers. You'll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!

Your day-to-day will involve building and supporting a particular part of Monzo's banking platform. Our squads belong to our wider collectives, which are self-governing business units of around 100 people. We're looking for engineers to join our collectives, which include Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion.

We're a flexible organisation that values connections, flexibility, and wellbeing. We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance. You'll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with your team to make a difference to customers
  • Build and support a particular part of Monzo's banking platform
  • Work in a squad alongside other disciplines
  • Contribute to open source software

Requirements

  • Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
  • Product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and want to make data-informed decisions
  • Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
  • Experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)

What we offer

  • £105,000 - £135,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
  • Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well
  • Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
  • Opportunity to relocate to the UK
  • Visa sponsorship available
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