Senior Platform Engineer

Job Overview

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone. We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond.

The Platform Collective builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools and processes that sets the rest of Monzo technology teams up for success. We work on a wide range of shared infrastructure, services and engineer tooling. The Infrastructure Platform team sit within the Platform Collective and are responsible for running the Kubernetes clusters which all services which power the bank run on, our service mesh and networking setup and managing how other teams interact with our cloud environments. Our team is made up of backend engineers and cloud infrastructure experts, using our experience and software engineering skills to solve problems and manage our cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and centrally managing the cloud infrastructure that underpins technology at Monzo
• Running components like Kubernetes and Envoy across AWS and GCP
• Helping other platform teams to succeed at using cloud infrastructure by abstracting away complexity
• Enabling teams to solve real customer problems

Required Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS and/or GCP
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Excitement about working with Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, and Envoy Proxy

About Monzo

Monzo is a digital bank that started as a prepaid card and has grown to offer personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK. We also offer savings, investment, and pension services. We focus on solving problems and changing lives through our services.

Benefits

• Flexible working: main tech hub in London, but engineers can be anywhere in the UK
• No pressure to come into the office
• Support for costs if required to come into the office
• Social office environment with team lunches and activities