Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Monzo Bank

London, United Kingdom
Base: £135,000 - £184,000; bonus/equity: share opt...
Remote
Hands-on coding and architecture
Technical and product direction
Scalable backend systems
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities

Job Summary

  • As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.
  • You will be hands-on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front and partnering closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs.
  • Monzo offers a competitive salary of £135,000 - £184,000 plus share options, a £1,000 learning budget each year, and support for relocation and visa sponsorship for UK-based remote work.

Matching Summary

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.

Salary

Base: £135,000 - £184,000; Bonus/Equity: Share Options; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Hands-on coding and architecture
  • Technical and product direction
  • Scalable backend systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Data-intensive systems
  • Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes

Nice-to-have

  • Strong technical judgment
  • Product and business awareness
  • Operating in ambiguous problem spaces
  • Mentoring and raising the bar

Key Requirements

  • Senior Staff Engineer: L70 on Engineering Progression Framework
  • Track record of leading complex, high-impact systems
  • Driving technical direction across multiple teams
  • Experience with scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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