Monzo - Senior Staff Backend Engineer

• A Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo is a hands on engineering leadership (IC) position. As a Senior Staff Engineer you’ll: • Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities. • shape the technical and product direction of a collective • Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front. • hands on • Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective. • define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective • Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability. • Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems • Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems, ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy. • ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy • Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective, driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard. • driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard • Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders, multiplying your impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level. • develop senior engineers and future leaders • What you’ll be using/ What you’ll be working on: • We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies: • Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here) • Cassandra for most persistent data storage • Cassandra • Kafka for our asynchronous message queue • Kafka • Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services • Kubernetes • Docker • AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure. • React for internal Web dashboards • React • Feast for storing our features along a variety of tools to train and deploy models. • Feast • 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… • You have a track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams • leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams • You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs • strong technical judgment with product and business awareness • You’ve worked on scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems • scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems • You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute • ambiguous problem spaces • You influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond • senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond • You care about outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions • outcomes and impact • You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers • mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers