Senior Staff Backend Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE We're on a mission to make money work for everyone at Monzo, a leading digital banking platform. We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to play a key role in shaping the technical and product direction of our collective, providing leadership across multiple squads and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo, you'll be a hands-on engineering leader who partners with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of our collective. Your responsibilities will include: * Partnering with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities. * Being hands-on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front. * Partnering closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective. * Mobilising teams across your collective around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability. * Leading and influencing architectural direction for the most complex systems, ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy. * Setting and upholding a high bar for technical excellence across the collective, driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard. * Proactively mentoring, sponsoring and developing senior engineers and future leaders, multiplying your impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you'll need: * A track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams. * Strong technical judgment combined with product and design expertise. * Experience with Agile development methodologies and version control systems. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. WHY REMOTE As a remote employee at Monzo, you'll have the flexibility to work from anywhere and enjoy a better work-life balance. Our team is distributed across the UK, and we use a range of tools and technologies to stay connected and collaborate effectively. BENEFITS Monzo offers a competitive salary of £155,000 - £200,000 per year, plus equity and a range of benefits, including: * A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement savings, and paid time off. * Opportunities for professional development and growth, including training, mentorship, and career advancement. * A dynamic and inclusive work environment, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. * Access to the latest technologies and tools, including Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, React, and Feast.