Staff Engineer, Borrowing Full Time

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As for the role; Monzo is looking for a Staff Engineer, Borrowing, to join their company. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.”

– Startup of London Team

The Role

A Staff Engineer at Monzo is a technical (IC) leadership position. As a Staff Engineer in the Borrowing collective at Monzo, you’ll:

• Work with the product leadership team of your collection to ensure we are making the right trade-offs across squads. You’ll use your keen sense of product-market fit to do this.
• Help your teams manage the trade-offs implied in shipping new products to market – balancing speed, polish, and the need to learn what fits customers’ needs best.
• Rally your team around a mission, objective, or company priority, injecting urgency when needed or slowing down the pace to make sure the right controls are in place.
• Understand several workstreams across your group keeping enough context to regularly provide technical advice to other engineers.
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for the most complex systems in the collective. You’ll do this in order to arrive at solutions that are robust and optimal given the context.
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar.
• Foster a culture of quality within the collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and get buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated. 
• Proactively mentor, sponsor, and up-level engineers.

The Borrowing collective makes borrowing money simple, fair, and transparent. 

We’re really proud that this fair approach to lending helps people to get what they want from life on their own terms. Squads in Borrowing have already shipped and scaled Loans and Overdrafts to hundreds of thousands of Monzo customers. They’ve made it easy to take out a loan without the unfair fees or confusing pricing that you find elsewhere. We’ve most recently launched a completely new product, Flex: a consumer-focused buy now pay later product that is growing rapidly – providing a simple and clear way of using instalment loans. Borrowing teams work on everything from the way borrowing works in the app, right down to how they move and account for money that our customers borrow. They are extremely customer focused and start most of their work by understanding customers and their actual needs.

You should apply if: 

• you have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products.
• you have technically led teams to solve complex product challenges, enabling them to manage trade-offs in order to deliver products that solve customer needs at scale.
• you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
• you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day.
• you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions.
• you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and partner team resolve that ambiguity.
• you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.
• you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala, etc.).
• you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing.

Logistics

• Salary is around £140,000 – £180,000 plus stock options and other benefits.
• We can help you relocate to the UK 
• We 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 conferences

We’re usually always hiring Engineers, so there’s no closing date for this job.