Remote Staff Backend Engineer Job in London, UK Monzo Bank

Who you are

• Track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products
• Technically led large teams to solve complex product challenges and manage trade-offs
• Involved in building and protecting a product that you use every day
• Quantitative mindset: care about outcomes and make data-informed decisions
• Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and partner team resolve that ambiguity

What the job involves

• Partner with the Engineering Director supporting the collective and provide technical leadership across all squads
• Work with the product leadership team of your collective to ensure we are making the right trade-offs across squads
• Rally your team around a mission, objective or company priority, injecting urgency when needed or slowing down pace to make sure the right controls are in place
• Understand several work-streams 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
• 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 your collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and gets buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated
• Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers

Application process

• Recruiter Call
• Initial Call
• System Design Interview
• Take home task or pair coding exercise
• Final interview including a behavioural and a leadership interview