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Salary: GBP 155,000 - 200,000 / annual
Monzo is a UK-based fintech company on a mission to make money work for everyone, offering personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, credit cards, savings, investments, and pension services. The company has grown from a prepaid card to a full-service digital bank with around 5,500 employees, including 650 engineers.
As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer (L70), you'll be a hands-on engineering leadership individual contributor partnering with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction across a collective of 30–70+ engineers. Your responsibilities include:
- Partner with Engineering Directors to shape technical and product direction across multiple squads, ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities
- Remain hands-on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front
- Work closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximize business and customer impact
- Mobilize teams around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment, and momentum while balancing urgency with long-term sustainability
- Lead and influence architectural direction for complex systems, ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams
- Set and uphold high standards for technical excellence, driving improvements in quality, reliability, and scalability
- Mentor, sponsor, and develop senior engineers and future leaders
The tech stack includes Go for application code, Cassandra for persistent data storage, and Kafka for asynchronous messaging. You'll contribute to open-source software and have opportunities to work across teams or specialize as you prefer. The role offers significant scope to influence company-wide technical strategy while remaining deeply involved in hands-on engineering work.
