Senior Backend Engineer at Monzo

Hybrid - Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

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Monzo, a UK fintech bank, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work on its banking platform. The role involves collaborating with cross‑functional squads, building scalable backend services, and contributing to distributed systems and data infrastructure. Candidates will work in London or remote within the UK and will have flexibility in their working location and hours.

Salary

GBP 95,000 - 130,000/year

Requirements

Education

  • No formal qualifications required

Experience

  • Strong experience in backend development of technology products
  • Experience in building customer‑facing products
  • Experience with distributed systems and resilient software
  • Experience with strongly‑typed languages such as Go, Java, C, Scala

Skills

  • Backend engineering
  • Product mindset
  • Data‑informed decision making
  • Team collaboration
  • Distributed systems
  • Resilient software development

Languages

  • English

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross‑functional squads to deliver backend services
  • Build and support backend components of Monzo’s banking platform
  • Work on distributed systems and resilient software
  • Use strongly‑typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala)
  • Contribute to infrastructure using Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy Proxy, AWS, GCP
  • Engage with product, design, and operations teams

Technologies

GoCassandraKafkaKubernetesDockerEnvoy ProxyAWSGCPReact

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