Senior Platform Engineer
at MonzoAbout the job
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¸
Hear from our UK team about what itâs like working at Monzo â¨
đLondon / UK Remote | đ°Senior Engineer ÂŁ95,000 - ÂŁ130,000 + stock options + Benefits | Technology - Engineering |
About Platform Engineering at Monzo:
The Platform Collective builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools and processes that sets the rest of Monzo technology teams up for success. We work on a wide range of shared infrastructure, services and engineer tooling.
The Infrastructure Platform team sit within the Platform Collective and are responsible for running the Kubernetes clusters which all services which power the bank run on, our service mesh and networking setup and managing how other teams interact with our cloud environments. Our team is made up of backend engineers and cloud infrastructure experts, using our experience and software engineering skills to solve problems and manage our cloud infrastructure.
Our Infrastructure Platform team Has Two Focus Areas
We build and centrally manage the cloud infrastructure that underpins technology at Monzo, running across AWS and GCP we run components like Kubernetes and Envoy We help other platform teams to succeed at using cloud infrastructure by abstracting away the complexity and enabling them to solve real customer problems
Weâre investing heavily in this team to support Monzoâs ambitions to grow from 10 to 20 million customers, expand the range of products to improve our customersâ financial lives and set up the foundations for scaling Monzo across the globe.
What youâll be working with:
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies, please note direct experience in these technologies is not required and our interview process can be completed in any language:
Go to write our application code (thereâs an excellent interactive Go tutorial here), in platform we build services to manage parts of the platform Kubernetes most workloads we run are on Kubernetes with this team being responsible for the underlying clusterâs management AWS and GCP whilst our primary platform is in AWS our footprint in GCP is continually growing and we are increasing our maturity across both of these platforms Terraform is primarily how we manage any resources deployed into the cloud Envoy Proxy for our RPC service mesh
You have experience working with AWS and/or GCP You have experience working with Kubernetes Youâd be excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo Youâre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity Youâre naturally inclined to solve problems through automation You have some experience with strongly typed languages, writing and working on backend software Youâre curious about systems and diving deep to investigate issues
Weâre on the look out for L40 & L50 Platform Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework
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.
You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on tech-hiring@monzo.com
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° ÂŁ95,000 - ÂŁ130,000 base salaryâ plus stock options
âď¸We can help you relocate to the UK
â We can sponsor visas.
đThis role can be based in our London office, but weâre open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
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 ÂŁ1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
âAnd much more, see our full list of benefits here
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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, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.
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