Staff Engineer, Business Banking Full Time

“Previously Startups of London has featured Monzo in our article The Complete List of Unicorn Startups in the UK 2022.

You can also click on the company name above or go to their company page from here and learn more about their culture, business and management.

As for the role; Monzo is looking for a Staff Engineer, Business Banking, 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 Business Banking 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 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. 
• Proactive mentor, sponsor, and up-level engineer.

Our vision in Business banking is to become the “Financial control centre” for SMEs

We aim to do this by providing the features, funding, and services businesses need. We want to integrate seamlessly with their existing tools to make them more powerful and automate painful manual processes for SMEs. 

Building on the Monzo experience we want to adopt and enhance our existing features and provide new features that are specific to businesses. For example, building on top of Pots we provide businesses with Tax pots that allow them to automatically put money aside on every incoming payment to be used later in the year as they file their taxes. We also build new Business specific features like the Invoices that allow businesses to create, send and manage their Invoices directly via their account. 

Our main challenges evolve around: 

• building features that allow Business to manage their account
• enable multiple users to have access to and manage the same account
• integrating with 3rd parties to connect to the tools that Businesses use, whilst maintaining customer data accurate and easily accessible
• managing and maintaining accurate data for Businesses as they are more complex structures 

Our teams have a wide remit working vertically across all the layers of the application from the apps to the backend systems, and also horizontally across operations and internal tooling to make sure we provide the best customer experience across the board.

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.