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# backend engineers

- **Company:** Monzo Bank
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Web Applications, ReactJS, Backend
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-iii-monzo-6577644

## About the Role

* you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
 * you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
 * you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
 * you're comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
 * you're interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
 * you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.).
 * you think you'd enjoy the kind of work we're doing

## Description

This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer you'll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!

Together you'll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are; Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion.

They're all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need!

Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we'd love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles., * Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services

 * Envoy Proxy for RPC
 * AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure
 * React for our public web apps and internal tools
 * We also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves three main stages:

 1. Initial Call
 2. Take home task or pair coding exercise
 3. Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview

Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.

One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here.


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