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. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

🏢 About Monzo

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 is responsible for running the Kubernetes clusters, service mesh and networking that all of Monzo's microservices run on. 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. Read more about Platform Engineering at Monzo here.

🎯 The Role

📍London / UK Remote | 💰Engineer £65,000 - £80,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance | Technology - Engineering |

About Platform Engineering at Monzo:

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 is responsible for running the Kubernetes clusters, service mesh and networking that all of Monzo's microservices run on. 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.

Read more about Platform Engineering at Monzo here.

Our Infrastructure Platform team Has Two Focus Areas

We build and centrally manage the cloud infrastructure that underpins technology at Monzo, running components like Kubernetes and Envoy across AWS and GCP. We help other platform teams to succeed at using cloud infrastructure by abstracting away the complexity and enabling them to solve real customer problems

We’re investing heavily in this team to support Monzo’s ambitions to grow from 10 to 20 million customers, expand the range of products to improve our customers’ financial lives and set up the foundations for scaling Monzo across the globe.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Platform & Infrastructure Engineering: Enhancing and maintaining our foundational tools and systems.
• Working hands-on with our Kubernetes clusters, AWS infrastructure, and configuration management using Terraform.
• Integrating and managing various open-source components to provide robust, scalable primitives for our engineering teams.
• Software & Backend Engineering: Building and maintaining the services that abstract and orchestrate our infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing backend services (APIs, controllers, etc.) that provide a simplified, self-service experience for other engineers.
• Developing software for complex projects like infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management, or security tooling.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Software Engineering Foundation: You have a keen interest in software engineering, demonstrated by writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services.
• Cloud & Container Experience: You’re enthusiastic about working with AWS and/or GCP, and with Kubernetes.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: You are naturally inclined to solve problems through automation and have experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Platform Mindset: You'd be excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at Monzo, focusing on reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You're comfortable working in a fast-paced team that deals with ambiguity and evolving requirements.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Direct experience in the technologies mentioned above is not required, and our interview process can be completed in any language.

🎁 Benefits

• 💰 £65,000 - £80,000 base salary
• ➕ Incentive Awards tied to your performance
• ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
• 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
• ➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.