Senior Platform Engineer

Job title:

Senior Platform Engineer

Company

Monzo

Job description

We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.We’re 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 and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and 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!We’re not about selling products – we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo London / UK Remote | £95,000 – £130,000 + stock options + | – 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 AreasWe build and centrally manage the cloud infrastructure that underpins technology at Monzo, running across AWS and GCP we run components like Kubernetes and EnvoyWe help other platform teams to succeed at using cloud infrastructure by abstracting away the complexity and enabling them to solve real customer problemsWe’re investing heavily in this team to support Monzo’s ambitions to grow from 10 to 20 million customers, expand the range of products to improve our customers’ financial lives and set up the foundations for scaling Monzo across the globe.What you’ll 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:to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial ), in platform we build services to manage parts of the platform most workloads we run are on Kubernetes with this team being responsible for the underlying cluster’s management and 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 is primarily how we manage any resources deployed into the cloud for our RPC service meshWe’d love to hear from you if…You have experience working with AWS and/or GCPYou have experience working with KubernetesYou’d be excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at MonzoYou’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguityYou’re naturally inclined to solve problems through automationYou have some experience with strongly typed languages, writing and working on backend softwareYou’re curious about systems and diving deep to investigate issuesWe’re on the look out for L40 & L50 Platform Engineers at the moment, you can read more in ourThe 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.comOne of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see .What’s in it for you: £95,000 – £130,000 base salary plus stock optionsWe can help you relocate to the UKWe can sponsor visas.This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).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.Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferencesAnd much more, see our full list of benefits#LI-Remote#LI-HJ1Equal opportunities for everyoneDiversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re 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 , 2023 and 2024We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don’t need full or birth names at application stage

Expected salary

£95000 – 130000 per year

Location

London – Cardiff

Job date

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:55:54 GMT

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