Senior Staff Backend Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Shape the technical and product direction of a collective, partnering with Engineering Directors
• ▹Be hands-on in both coding and architecture
• ▹Partner with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, roadmaps and trade-offs
• ▹Mobilise teams around high-impact problems
• ▹Lead architectural direction for the most complex systems
• ▹Mentor and develop senior engineers and future leaders

Requirements

• ▹Track record leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams
• ▹Strong technical judgment combined with product and business awareness
• ▹Experience with scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems
• ▹Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces
• ▹Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹£155,000-200,000 salary plus equity
• ▹London or UK remote work

About the company

Monzo employs around 600 engineers out of roughly 5,000 people and contributes to open source software.