Senior Backend Engineer

Monzo·Cardiffsenior

In short

→Ingeniero backend senior en una banca digital innovadora que construye productos financieros en el Reino Unido.
→Trabajas en un equipo multidisciplinario (squads) dentro de colectivos como Banking, Payments o Fincrime, desarrollando soluciones técnicas con impacto directo
→Destaca que colaboras en proyectos con IA y machine learning, especialmente en lucha contra el fraude financiero y herramientas financieras inteligentes.

Proficiency in English is required for day-to-day collaboration.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia demostrable como ingeniero backend en entornos de alta escala.
✓Conocimiento profundo de arquitecturas de microservicios y sistemas distribuidos.
✓Capacidad para trabajar en equipo multidisciplinario en entornos ágiles.
✓Experiencia con tecnologías de backend en producción (Python, Go, Java, etc.).
✓Compromiso con la calidad del código, pruebas y mantenibilidad.
✓Habilidades de comunicación efectiva en entornos técnicos y no técnicos.

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🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts , accounts for 16-17 year olds , a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save , invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍London or UK Remote | 💰 Senior Engineer (L50) £105,000 - £135,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits | Technology - Engineering About our Engineering Teams: We have around 650 engineers across Monzo who design and build our in-house banking platform. We have big ambitions for the future, and technology plays a big role in creating a bank our customers want, so engineers at Monzo collaborate across disciplines to solve interesting challenges throughout the company. These range from the products our customers use everyday to underlying infrastructure, security, payments and finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data, to name just a few areas. As a bank, there is scope for impact across a huge number of opportunities. We contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do! Your day-to-day This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer 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! Together you'll 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. All of our collectives are doing innovative work, many of which have machine learning and AI at the forefront- from fighting financial crime to building smarter financial tools - and you may have the opportunity to join a collective that gives you direct exposure to this exciting space. They’re 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

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