Monzo | Backend, Data, iOS, Android & Web Engineers | London, UK | VISA, REMOTE, INTERNS https://monzo.com/
At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Our backend engineering team have a variety of different backgrounds: we have several non-graduates; only a couple of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you.
We work in project-based sprints, working directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to regulation, product to financial crime, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum.
If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email our CTO Jonas (jonas@monzo.com) directly :) We're very open about what we do in general, so our blog is a good place to learn more about what we do.
Monzo | Backend, Data, iOS, Android & Web Engineers | London, UK | VISA, REMOTE, INTERNS https://monzo.com/
At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Our backend engineering team have a variety of different backgrounds: we have several non-graduates; only a couple of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you.
We work in project-based sprints, working directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to regulation, product to financial crime, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum.
If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email our CTO Jonas (jonas@monzo.com) directly :) We're very open about what we do in general, so our blog is a good place to learn more about what we do.
I think you're right: including NGINX in the summary is a distraction, and highlighting it as a link makes the wrong implication. I'm a developer at Monzo, so I've tweaked the blog post to remove the reference. Thanks!
Monzo | Backend, Web or Android Engineer | London | VISA, REMOTE, INTERNS https://monzo.com
At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Our backend engineering team have a variety of different backgrounds: we have several non-graduates; only a couple of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you.
We work in project-based sprints, and take turns to be the floating engineer who handles interrupt-driven work and non-critical bug fixes. We work directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to regulation, product to financial crime, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum.
If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email our CTO Jonas (jonas@monzo.com) directly :) We're very open about what we do in general, so our blog is a good place to learn more about what we do.
Tesco is licensed in the UK, and so is covered by FSCS [1] (similar to US FDIC) up to £75k.
It's not so relevant here, but in the case that the bank became insolvent (very unlikely in this case), FSCS aims to pay out within 7 days, and will pay all claims within 20 days.
Sure! This started as a learning exercise, so to get the maximum learning, CHOOSE WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW AT ALL. (No really.)
So Android, (full disclosure: I've done a bit of Java, I'd rate myself as not beginner but nowhere near experienced). Android is hard to develop well for, it's activity lifecycle took a long time to get my head around, and once I hit real-world testing with different devices it was just a roller-coaster of debugging that was highly, highly challenging. Also, everyone is doing things iOS first, and that's boring. We wanted to give Android users an awesome, fun, show your friends app that was hilarious, silly and pushed things forward, even just a little.
Nodejs - I'd wanted to do something in anger with node for ages, and this was the perfect opportunity. Also no proper nosql experience, so mongo!
Full disclosure: It's on top of heroku, to save time.
Id like to say there were more deep seated reasons, but they are the most honest - try something you don't know, then just focus focus focus until you nail it.
Love to port it to iOS, of course - but that's a whole NEW learning experience. Let's see how we do android first!
At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Our backend engineering team have a variety of different backgrounds: we have several non-graduates; only a couple of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you.
We work in project-based sprints, working directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to regulation, product to financial crime, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum.
If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email our CTO Jonas (jonas@monzo.com) directly :) We're very open about what we do in general, so our blog is a good place to learn more about what we do.
* Backend stack: Go, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Kafka, Linkerd/Finagle
* iOS stack: Swift 3, Realm
* Android stack: Kotlin, Java, Realm
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