Monzo Bank · 19 hours ago
Staff Backend Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $299K/yrMonzo Bank is a leading financial technology company on a mission to make money work for everyone. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to set the technical direction, design scalable systems, and mentor engineers while ensuring a high-quality engineering culture in the US.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechWealth Management
Responsibilities
You’ll act as a multiplier for the engineering team, setting the technical direction, designing scalable systems and ensuring we ship fast without compromising on safety or quality
You’ll work closely with engineering and product counterparts in both the US and UK, adapting core capabilities to the needs of US customers
In this role, you’ll be hands-on with writing and reviewing code, leading architectural thinking, and making pragmatic technical trade-offs
A key part of your impact will come from raising the bar across the team
You’ll mentor engineers at all levels, helping them deepen their technical judgement while shaping a culture of excellence, inclusion and autonomy
You’ll coach others through complex problems, help them grow into technical leaders in their own right and ensure US engineering remains fast, safe and joyful to build in
Your influence will reach beyond your own code: your practices, decisions and communication will set standards for the entire US engineering organisation
You’ll be deeply embedded in shaping the future of Monzo US
Working closely with the Head of Engineering, product leaders and cross-functional partners, you’ll help define how we build a differentiated US experience, how we scale responsibly and how we make technical decisions that balance customer impact, operational effectiveness and long-term platform health
You’ll bring clarity to ambiguity, communicate decisions effectively across teams and guide the organisation through complex technical landscapes
Qualification
Required
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
You're comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
You're interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
You have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)
You think you'd enjoy the kind of work we're doing
Benefits
Great Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
Stock Options
Generous 401k with 4% employer match
Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. Work the way that works for you with Monzo!
32 days of vacation and public holidays per year (and we require that you take all of your days each year as we believe that well rested employees are more effective!)
Maternity / Paternity leave
Company
Monzo Bank
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
Founded in 2015
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.84BKey Investors
CapitalGAbu Dhabi Growth FundY Combinator
2024-10-10Secondary Market
2024-05-08Series I· $187.4M
2024-03-05Series I· $431.95M
Leadership Team
TS Anil
Group CEO
Tom Oldham
Group Chief Financial Officer
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