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Senior Staff Backend Engineer

2 months ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS Cassandra Docker GCP Go Kafka Kubernetes Microservices React System Design
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Monzo

Monzo

Monzo is a digital retail bank and fintech company that provides smart banking solutions through its smartphone app. With over 8 million users, Monzo offers intelligent notifications, instant balance updates, and financial management tools to help user...

Banks
1K-5K
Founded 2015
$1100M raised
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Description

  • Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective across multiple squads.
  • Provide hands-on coding and architecture leadership.
  • Work closely with Product and Design leaders to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact.
  • Mobilise teams around high-impact problems by creating clarity, alignment, urgency, and momentum.
  • Lead architectural direction for complex systems and ensure cohesive, scalable designs across teams.
  • Drive improvements in technical quality, reliability, and scalability across the collective.
  • Mentor, sponsor, and develop senior engineers and future leaders.
  • Influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product, and other functions.

Requirements

  • Experience leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams.
  • Strong technical judgment combined with product and business awareness.
  • Experience with scalable backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and helping teams define direction.
  • Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product, and beyond.
  • Focus on outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions.
  • Enjoyment of mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers.
  • Experience with Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, React, or Feast is relevant to the role.
  • Willingness to work from London or distributed within the UK with ad hoc meetings in London.
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation to the UK are available for eligible candidates.

Benefits

  • £140,000 - £184,000 salary plus share options.
  • Visa sponsorship available.
  • Relocation support to the UK.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Ability to work from London or remotely within the UK.
  • £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training courses, and conferences.
  • Company-provided MacBook and home-working setup support for fully remote employees.

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