ppWe’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. /p pAfter 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. /p pWith 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! /p pWe’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo. /p pBarcelona, Spain | Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office /p h3About our Engineering Teams: /h3 pWe have over 400 engineers across Monzo who design and build our in‑house banking platform. We have big ambitions for the future, and technology plays a big role in creating a bank our customers want, so engineers at Monzo collaborate across disciplines to solve interesting challenges throughout the company. /p pThese range from the products our customers use everyday to underlying infrastructure, security, payments and finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data, to name just a few areas. As a bank, there is scope for impact across a huge number of opportunities. /p pWe contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do! /p h3Your day‑to‑day /h3 pThis role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer you’ll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more! /p pTogether you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self‑governing business units of ~100 people). They are Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security Expansion.



/p pThey’re all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need! /p pOur backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles. /p h3You should apply if: /h3 ul liyou have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product /li liyou want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day /li liyou have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data‑informed decisions /li liyou’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity /li liyou’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software /li liyou have some experience with strongly‑typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.) /li liyou think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing /li /ul pWe’re on the look out for L30 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework. You will be interviewed across the whole framework, so if you're not sure what level you're aiming for chat to your recruiter! /p pNot ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t have everything that’s listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! /p h3What you’ll be working on: /h3 pWe hire very technically agnostic so whilst we use the below technologies we do not expect prior knowledge,



you will be fully supported in our organised onboarding to get up to speed in the below: /p ul libGo /b to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here) /li libCassandra /b for most persistent data storage /li libKafka /b for our asynchronous message queue /li libKubernetes /b and bDocker /b to schedule and run our services /li libEnvoy Proxy /b for RPC /li libAWS /b for most of our production infrastructure and bGCP /b for most of our data infrastructure /li liReact for our public web apps and internal tools /li liWe also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties /li /ul h3The Interview Process /h3 pOur interview process involves three main stages: /p ol liInitial Call /li liTake home task or pair coding exercise /li liFinal interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview /li /ol pOur average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. /p pOne of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here. /p h3What’s in it for you /h3 pBase salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits /p pBarcelona, Spain /p pWe offer adaptable working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. /p pLearning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences /p h3Equal opportunities for everyone /h3 pDiversity 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 blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report. /p pWe’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. /p pIf you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage. /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Software Engineer II (Barcelona)
🏢 Monzo
📍 Barcelona