Staff Backend Engineer

About the role

<p>📍London / UK Remote | 💰 <a href="https://monzo.com/documents/engineering-progression-framework-v4-0.pdf">Staff Backend Engineer (L60)</a> £130,000 - £170,000 + Equity&nbsp;+ <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/">Benefits</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology">Technology</a>&nbsp;- Engineering&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About our Engineering Teams:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have around 650 engineers out of roughly 5,500 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We contribute to </span><a href="https://github.com/monzo"><strong>open source software</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as much as possible. Our </span><a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology"><strong>blog</strong></a><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">is a good place to learn even more about what we do!</span></p> <p><strong>What you’ll be working on:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://golang.org/"><strong>Go</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial </span><a href="https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1"><strong>here</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/"><strong>Cassandra</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for most persistent data storage</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://kafka.apache.org/"><strong>Kafka</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for our asynchronous message queue</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/"><strong>Envoy Proxy</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for RPC</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://kubernetes.io/"><strong>Kubernetes</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.docker.com/"><strong>Docker</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to schedule and run our services&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/"><strong>AWS</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for most of our infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/"><strong>React</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for internal web dashboards</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Your day-to-day&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer you’ll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!&nbsp;</span></p> <p>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 &amp; 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 collectiv

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