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Senior Backend Engineer

from Monzo · read the original and apply on their site

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

Our take: The real work here is building and supporting resilient backend systems in a cross-discipline squad, for a bank that millions of people use every day.

If you love writing resilient backend code and the puzzle of distributed systems, this is a squad where you build parts of a bank that you and the people you know actually use every day. You will work in Go alongside product, design, data and more, learning fast in an environment that trusts you to work in the way that fits your life. It is for engineers who care about customer outcomes, enjoy ambiguity, and want their work to genuinely matter.

Needs

  • backend software building
  • systems design
  • comfort with ambiguity
  • cross-team squad work
  • appetite for learning
  • product-minded thinking

Rewards

  • a product you use daily
  • visible customer impact
  • strong pay and benefits
  • real work-life balance
  • funded learning

Demands

  • living with ambiguity
  • carrying what you build
  • getting up to speed fast

Grows

  • distributed systems design
  • learning new domains
  • cross-discipline collaboration

Values

  • user obsession
  • mission driven
  • inclusion
  • open source transparency
  • trusting autonomy

Drains

  • debugging in production
  • compliance-heavy domains
  • on-call incident response

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