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Monzo

Principal Backend Engineer

Monzo
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about 4 hours ago
London, United Kingdom or Remote, United Kingdom
Senior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to shape technical and product direction.
  • Remain hands-on in coding and architecture in complex areas.
  • Identify high-leverage opportunities and set engineering direction.
  • Mobilize teams around high-impact problems, ensuring clarity and alignment.
  • Lead architectural direction for complex systems, driving consistency.
  • Uphold technical excellence and foster a culture of quality.
  • Mentor and develop senior engineers and future leaders.

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading complex, high-impact systems.
  • Ability to think in multi-year horizons and identify future opportunities.
  • Strong technical judgment combined with product and business awareness.
  • Experience with large scale backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across various domains.
  • Focus on outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions.
  • Passion for mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers.

Benefits

  • Open to discussions on base salary, incentive awards, and share options.
  • Relocation assistance to the UK.
  • Visa sponsorship available.
  • Flexible working hours and remote work options.
  • £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training, and conferences.
  • Support for work-from-home setup, including Macbooks.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesReact

Categories

Backend