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Job Application for Senior Software Engineer at Monzo Back to jobs Senior Software Engineer Barcelona Apply đ Weâre on a mission to make money work for everyone. Weâre 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! Weâre not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo â¤ď¸ đBarcelona, Spain | đ° Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office About our Engineering Teams: We have over 400 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 youâll 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 youâll 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. Theyâre 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, weâd love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles. You should apply if: you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions youâre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity youâre interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.). you think youâd enjoy the kind of work weâre doing We're on the look out for L50 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework - we will interview you across the whole frame work, so if you are not sure what level you are aiming for please chat to your recruiters! Not ticking every box? Thatâs totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, weâre dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If youâre passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to applyâ even if you donât have everything thats listed just yet. Drop us your application, weâd love to hear from you! What youâll be working on: We hire very technically agnostic so whilst we use the below technologies we do not expect prior knowledge, you will be fully supported in our organised onboarding to get up to speed in the below: Go to write our application code (thereâs an excellent interactive Go tutorial here ) Cassandra for most persistent data storage Kafka for our asynchronous message queue Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services Envoy Proxy for RPC AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure React for our public web apps and internal tools We also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties The Interview Process: Our interview process involves three main stages: Initial Call Take home task or pair coding exercise Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here . Whatâs in it for you: đ° Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits đBarcelona, Spain â° We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. đLearning budget of âŹ1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences #LI-JS1 Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and weâre making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, weâre embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog , 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report. 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