Hybrid Principal Backend Engineer

at Monzo Bank

• Job title: Principal Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cardiff, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal Backend Engineer providing hands-on engineering leadership at Monzo tackling complex systems and technical challenges in a remote UK position.

Responsibilities

• Partner with and guide Engineering and Product Leaders to shape the technical and product direction of Monzo
• Remain hands-on in both coding and architecture where it adds the most leverage, especially in complex, high-risk or novel areas
• Actively identifying high-leverage opportunities for Monzo and setting the direction of Engineering effort towards the most impactful outcomes.
• Mobilise teams across Monzo around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum
• Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems, driving consistency and reuse across domains
• Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across Monzo
• Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders

Requirements

• You have a track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams, domains or business areas
• You think in multi-year horizons to look around corners and build for the future, identifying opportunities before they present themselves
• You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs
• You’ve worked on large scale backend, distributed or data-intensive systems
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute
• You influence and align the most senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond
• You care about outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions and to iterate
• You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers

Benefits

• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.
• Health insurance
• We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
• We can sponsor your visa.
• Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.