Senior Staff Backend Engineer

UKRemoteFull-time£155k–£200k2026-11-02 → 2026-11-09

HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Senior Staff Engineer providing hands-on engineering leadership and architectural direction for a collective of 30–70+ engineers, shaping technical strategy and solving complex distributed systems problems.

Role type

Senior Staff IC Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Scalable backend services, data-intensive systems, and distributed infrastructure for a UK-based digital banking platform.

Domain

Fintech / Banking / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, technical leadership, system design, mentoring, stakeholder alignment

Preferred skills

Experience with data-intensive systems, open source contributions, product awareness

Technologies

Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, React, Feast

Responsibilities

Partner with Engineering Directors to shape technical direction for a collective; lead architectural direction for complex systems; mentor senior engineers; align local decisions with broader system strategy; drive technical excellence and reliability across teams.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC leadership

About Monzo

Monzo is on a mission to build technology that connects the world. We are more than a platform; we are a global infrastructure that millions of people rely on for their daily lives, finances, and communication. This puts us in an incredibly unique position. We are the custodians of immense amounts of sensitive financial data as well as people’s money that are highly attractive to sophisticated adversaries and state-level actors.