Monzo

backend developer in banking

In short

Senior backend developer role at Monzo, a UK fintech building an in-house banking platform covering customer products, payments, security, and financial crime. The job focuses on building backend technology products with a strong product mindset and data-informed decision-making. Requires 3+ years of backend experience with strongly typed languages like Go, Java, C, or Scala, and comfort working with ambiguity in distributed systems. Remote work with visa sponsorship and UK relocation support available.

About Monzo
Monzo provides personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16–17-year-olds, kids' accounts, credit cards, savings, investment products, and pension consolidation in the UK. Its engineering teams build an in-house banking platform spanning customer products, infrastructure, security, payments, finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data.
Responsibilities
•Build backend technology products
Requirements
•Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
•A product mindset and care for customer outcomes
•Ability to make data-informed decisions
•Comfort working in a team that deals with ambiguity
•Interest in distributed systems and resilient software
•Experience with strongly typed languages such as Go, Java, C, or Scala
Nice to have
No additional preferences specified
Conditions
•Incentive awards tied to performance
•Relocation support to the UK is available
•Visa sponsorship is available
•Flexible working hours
•Part-time work can be accommodated where possible
•£1,000 annual learning budget for books, training courses, and conferences
•Interview process includes an initial call, a take-home task or pair-coding exercise, and a final interview with system design and behavioural interviews; the process averages around four weeks and can accommodate candidate availability
•No closing date

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