Senior Backend Engineer

Monzoreferrals·Cardiffsenior

In short

→Ingeniero backend senior en una banca digital innovadora con impacto real en productos para clientes.
→Trabajas en equipos multidisciplinarios (squads) dentro de colectivos especializados como pagos, crédito o seguridad, con enfoque en IA y ciberseguridad.
→Posibilidad de contribuir a software open source y trabajar desde cualquier lugar del Reino Unido con flexibilidad total.

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.
✓Capacidad para colaborar en equipos multidisciplinarios y trabajar con product managers, diseñadores y otros ingenieros.
✓Conocimiento práctico de sistemas distribuidos y arquitecturas backend modernas.
✓Habilidad para escribir código limpio, mantenible y bien probado.
✓Disposición para trabajar en un entorno de aprendizaje continuo sin requisitos de título formal.
✓Flexibilidad para trabajar de forma remota desde cualquier parte del Reino Unido.

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📍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 things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles. How we work 💻 Our main tech hub is in London, but our engineers live everywhere in the UK— from Brighton to the Western Isles. We value meeting in person but we don t have a mandated requirement on office attendance, even if you re nearby. We believe you ll do your best work if you are where you want to be. If you live outside of London and we ask you to come into the office, Monzo will support you with the costs ✨ Our offices are naturally social, especially Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which happen to line up with our twice-weekly Monzo lunches & treat Thursdays 🍽️ Teams also schedule time together often for work and play – in or around the office, or online. Set up a work schedule that delivers impact and fits your life: At Monzo, we value connections, flexibility, and wellbeing. We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance. You’ll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team, giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-ups, walking your dog or adventurous cat, avoiding peak commuting times o

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