Your day-to-day This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer youll 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!Together youll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are; Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion.Theyre all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need!Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, wed love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.You should apply if:you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology productyou want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every dayyou have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisionsyoure comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguityyoure interested in distributed systems and writing resilient softwareyou have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).you think youd enjoy the kind of work were doingWe're on the look out for L50 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework - we will interview you across the whole frame work, so if you are not sure what level you are aiming for please chat to your recruiters!Not ticking every box? Thats totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, were dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If youre passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply even if you dont have everything thats listed just yet. Drop us your application, wed love to hear from you!What youll be working on:We hire very technically agnostic so whilst we use the below technologies we do not expect prior knowledge, you will be fully supported in our organised onboarding to get up to speed in the below:Go to write our application code (theres an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)Cassandra for most persistent data storageKafka for our asynchronous message queueKubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our servicesEnvoy Proxy for RPCAWS for most of our production infrastructure andGCP for most of our data infrastructureReact for our public web apps and internal toolsWe also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third partiesThe Interview Process:Our interview process involves three main stages:Initial CallTake home task or pair coding exerciseFinal interview: including a system design and a behavioural interviewOur average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on [emailprotected]One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here.Whats in it for you: 95,000 - 130,000 base salary plus stock optionsWe can help you relocate to the UKWe can sponsor visas.This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.Learning budget of 1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferencesAnd much more, see our full list of benefits hereWe're usually always hiring for Backend Engineers, so there's no closing date for this job.Equal opportunities for everyoneDiversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, were embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage