Join Monzo's crusade to revolutionize banking with our exceptional engineering team
Overview
£95000 - £130000
Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)
Expires at anytime
Visa sponsor - UK
Monzo, a fintech trailblazer, is transforming the banking industry with innovative features like hot coral cards and early salary access. With a commitment to financial education and award-winning customer service, Monzo is more than a bank; it's a problem solver dedicated to improving lives. The team praises Monzo's culture, emphasizing personal growth and knowledge sharing.
- Organisation Summary: Monzo is a dynamic player in the financial sector, boasting a 300-strong engineering team within its 2,500 employees. As an engineer at Monzo, you'll enjoy a collaborative environment with opportunities to work across various teams, contribute to open-source projects, and engage in regular educational sessions to broaden your understanding of banking and communication strategies.
- Role Summary: As a Senior Web Engineer in the Fincrime division, you'll be tasked with developing cutting-edge internal tools to protect against financial crime. This role involves collaborating closely with domain experts to enhance workflow efficiency, directly influencing Monzo's financial performance through strategic improvements, and mentoring peers.
- Role Requirements: Candidates should have a passion for product development in cross-disciplinary teams, a user experience focus, expertise in building web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks, and a willingness to actively participate in all development stages. Experience with modern component-oriented applications is essential.
- Application Process Details: The recruitment process includes a recruiter call, an initial call, a technical interview, and a final interview comprising system design and behavioral assessment, spanning approximately 3-4 weeks. Monzo provides flexibility to accommodate candidates' availability.
Monzo offers a competitive salary (£95,000 - £130,000), stock options, relocation assistance, visa sponsorship, and a comprehensive benefits package, including a £1,000 learning budget. The role allows for flexible and distributed working within the UK. Monzo is dedicated to diversity and inclusion, ensuring an environment where everyone can thrive. For more details or to request adjustments during the application process, reach out to tech-hiring@monzo.com.
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨
Senior Web Engineer, Fincrime
📍London / UK Remote | 💰 £95,000 -130,000 + Benefits | Technology - Engineering |
About our Engineering Teams:
We have around 300 engineers out of roughly 2,500 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We contribute toopen source software as much as possible. Ourblogis a good place to learn even more about what we do!
What you’ll be working on:
Monzo is an appealing target for criminals who try to launder illegally gained funds through our accounts or fraudulently convince our customers to give them their money. In the Financial Crime collective we strive to protect Monzo, our customers, and indirectly the society from financial crime. We tackle all types of financial crime, including money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorist financing.
We are looking for Web Engineers to help us build amazing internal tools that help our teams in protecting customers and fighting financial crime. We are building a new team focused on efficiency. This small team will focus on identifying and rapidly implementing the most impactful improvements. You will work closely with our domain experts and to build and optimise exceptional tools that enable our financial crime teams to efficiently investigate cases. You will be working with a modern technology stack which includes React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Storybook, Cypress, Playwright, and many more.
This role requires you to deeply understand our processes and workflows, which you will then redesign for maximum efficiency. Our primary customer will be our Customer Operations (COps) team. You will have a direct impact on Monzo’s Profit & Loss through the improvements you implement. This will range from quick wins like form improvements, to leveraging large language models (LLMs). Additionally, as the most senior Web engineer in both the team and the collective, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead those around you.
Every day you’ll be:
- Working closely with the Product Manager and Operations and Risk Domain Experts.
- Identifying and scoping opportunities for impactful projects.
- Actively contributing to every stage in the product development lifecycle within your team, and owning the development of new features from start to finish.
- Working closely with our backend engineers to design APIs to support new frontend features.
You should apply if:
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by user feedback and data insight.
- You care deeply about providing a great user experience for our users.
- You have an interest in building performant web experiences and designing/building UI that makes it easy for users to accomplish what they need.
- You enjoy diving deep into dashboards, metrics, and then making decisions/recommendations based on impact.
- You enjoy working in a large front-end codebase with many stakeholders.
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You have developed modern component-oriented JavaScript applications using frameworks and libraries (e.g React, Vue, Angular, Flow/Typescript, Webpack etc).
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
The Interview Process:
Our interview process involves three main stages:
- Recruiter Call
- Initial Call
- Technical Interview
- Final interview including a system design and a behavioural interview
Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.
You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please contact us at any point on [email removed - click apply for more details]
What’s in it for you:
💰 £95,000 - £130,000 base salary ➕ plus stock options
✈️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
➕And much more, see our full list of benefits here
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.