Please note: we get lots of successful applications for Backend Engineer, so there could be a delay in scheduling interviews from the initial stage right up until the final interviews. If you're invited to interview and you have any immediate time pressures, please let us know, as we'll always do our best to speed things up for you 😊
Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds
We have several non-graduates; only some 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 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 ourproduct roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
Monzo works in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams
We have around 150 engineers out of roughly 800 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
At Monzo you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology.
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
Cassandra for most persistent data storage
Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
Envoy Proxy for RPC
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (Oliver,our Head of Engineering, gave a great talk at KubeCon on how we use these technologies)
AWS for most of our infrastructure
React for internal web dashboards
We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
You should apply if:
the work we’re doing sounds exciting!
you want to be involved in building a product that you (andeveryone you know) use every day
you’re keen to learn more about new technologies and the arcane inner workings of the financial industry
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.).
At the moment, the following teams are looking for backend engineers:
Product The product backend team work primarily on creating backend services and APIs for our in-app user-facing features. They work closely with our mobile engineers and designers to create a delightful user experience, and to drive growth and retention. Projects that Product backend engineers have worked on recently include Summary (giving people insight into their finances to empower them to spend sensibly) and the Current Account Switch Service (all the hard work to allow users to move to Monzo quickly and easily).
Lending The Lending team works on making borrowing money simple, fair and transparent. They've already shipped and scaled overdrafts to hundreds of thousands of Monzo customers and they've made it easy to take out a loan without the unfair fees or confusing pricing that you find elsewhere. They work on everything from the way borrowing works in the app, right down to how they move and account for money that our customers borrow. One of the most interesting problems they face is deciding how much to lend and to whom. The team believes that they can make access to credit fairer and more transparent.
Logistics
We can help you relocate to London, we can sponsor visas, and we're open to remote working (as long as you can spend around 20% of your time in London).
We offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, which could be anywhere between £40,000 - £100,000 per year.
We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we’ll facilitate this wherever we can - whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.
We’re continually hiring for Backend Engineers! Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, a take-home code task, and a half-day on-site interview. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions, and we won't make you code on a whiteboard
Questions about this role? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs (www.monzo.com/careers) or email tech-hiring@monzo.com
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About the position
The Risk team is responsible for building, improving and maintaining an event-driven, real time scoring risk platform for Cabify. The goal is to minimize fraud and credit risk while at the same time improving user experience, and improving security for our Driver and Rider apps. As a Risk Engineer at Cabify you will be responsible for:
What we're looking for: * Experience in object oriented programming in any major language ( we use mainly Go and some Java). * Experience in message brokers or similar (we use PubSub). * Experience in, at least, one functional programming language (we use Scala). * Experience in any batch / real time distributed processing framework (we use Beam and Spark). * Experience using NoSQL databases like Cassandra or HBase
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About the position
The Risk team is responsible for building, improving and maintaining an event-driven, real time scoring risk platform for Cabify. The goal is to minimize fraud and credit risk while at the same time improving user experience, and improving security for our Driver and Rider apps. As a Risk Engineer at Cabify you will be responsible for:
What we're looking for in a candidate: * Experience in object oriented programming in any major language ( we use mainly Go and some Java). * Experience in message brokers or similar (we use PubSub). * Experience in, at least, one functional programming language (we use Scala). * Experience in any batch / real time distributed processing framework (we use Beam and Spark). * Experience using NoSQL databases like Cassandra or HBase
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Expa is a startup studio led by the founders of Uber, StumbleUpon, Foursquare, AddThis, and Metrolyrics. After 10 years designing and building consumer services, the Expa team has identified many techniques that help create successful companies. With $150 million funding to date, the team founds new companies based on internal ideas, and occasionally collaborates with founders of early-stage companies whose missions Expa believes in. We help companies avoid common pitfalls in early-stage ventures, and actively remove roadblocks along the way, specializing in product strategy, system design, and user experience.
Expa has a strong presence in San Francisco and New York City, and has recently expanded operations to Vancouver, Canada. We are actively looking to hire the best talent to be a part of our growing team.
You can read more about Expa on our site. The project you would be involved in is under stealth and more information will be provided at the time of interview.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for experienced software engineers, with strong backend experience in Cloud based environments excited for the challenge of working with a small team of front-end engineers. The position requires excellent problem solving and engineering skills when working with systems at scale. We are seeking individuals that are motivated to build cutting edge backends for products and manage the underlying infrastructure and deployment processes. The perfect candidate will be comfortable working closely with front-end engineers and can communicate effectively within a small team.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Build scalable, secure, effective and well documented backend systems in alongside well motivated front-end engineers - Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure on-time and performant solutions - Assess and build test frameworks for backend systems, as well as track metrics and performance over time - Ensure that code written is to a high standard, with excellent reusability - Help develop a service orientated architecture for cutting edge products
SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS - Strong development skills with Go ( golang ), NodeJs or Python for backend development - Ability to write clean, maintainable and well documented code - Strong understanding of front-end development and integration of services and APIs for front-end developers - Experience with Elastic Container Service and Docker is a must - Ability to maintain and manage databases and infrastructure within AWS - Understanding of Highly Available infrastructure environments and systems - Experience with infrastructure management and deployment through Automation tools and systems - Comfortable with OS Internals / Infrastructure on Debian, Redhat and Ubuntu systems - Experience with load balancing and web server technologies (Nginx, HAProxy) - Ability to build scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, ES, ECS, ELB etc) - Strong understanding of network communications within Cloud environments - Computer science degree or equivalent experience - Security hardening / experience with SANS or OWASP frameworks
YOUR BENEFITS - A competitive base salary - Stock options - Full medical and dental benefits - A very flexible vacation policy - Custom workstation designed to your needs - A beautiful office in downtown Vancouver and a talented team
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★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 4+ years of working experience as a developer
ABOUT US
★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company
NexGenT is on a mission to provide affordable IT education through an innovative approach that combines the best of online learning with the best of in person learning. The company is striving to spark a change in the educational system, which is currently leaving people in high amounts of debt and not giving them the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.
★ RESPONSIBILITIES
CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
★ QUALIFICATIONS
You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.
★ Bonus - Experience with React.js - Experience with Serverless Framework - Experience with Terraform - Experience with Golang - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
★ BENEFITS
Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose Full Gym and Shower On-site Included
★★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!
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★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 7+ years of working experience as a developer
ABOUT US
★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company
NexGenT solves the growing shortage of IT engineers for enterprise companies with cutting edge education software. Our intelligent learning platform provides smart career guidance, skills assessment, and access to world class engineers for 1:1 mentorship.
★ OUR MISSION
To inspire, create, and empower the next generation of IT engineers by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.
★ RESPONSIBILITIES
CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
★ QUALIFICATIONS
You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.
Excited to work in downtown San Jose (Heart of Silicon Valley). We will relocate you if necessary.
★ Bonus
★ BENEFITS
Full Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose @ WeWork Valley Towers Full Gym and Shower On-site Included
BONUS ★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!
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There’s no denying it, the financial world is messy and confusing. People suffer as they try to manage their financial lives and financial institutions haven’t cracked the code at helping them along the way. Legacy systems and antiquated distribution models have created a huge gap in the market, leaving hundreds of millions of people vulnerable in North America. As unexpected events occur in these people’s lives, many will encounter life changing situations and serious debt. It’s an inconvenient truth, but the one size fits all products, paper forms and fax machines are often the harsh status quo of the industry.
At Breathe Life, we’re building technology that helps people take control of their financial future so they can do what’s right for them, their loved ones and have peace of mind. Our platform helps them learn about financial products, identify the ones best suited for them, and make their purchase online when they’re ready. Breathe Life is shaping an industry that hasn’t changed in 100 years and having a massive impact in the process.
Breathe Life has secured significant financial and strategic backing from Diagram, a venture launchpad focused on insurance, financial and health technology. Diagram is backed by Power Financial Corporation, Great-West Lifeco, and IGM Financial through Portag3, along with 50+ leading angel investors. Our backing from Diagram gives us a significant competitive advantage that will help us win our market.
We’re looking for software engineers, programmers, devs, coders to join our growing engineering team. We believe it’s important for our team to represent the society we serve and we value diversity.
There is a lot of software to build as we tackle this huge opportunity: from managing and deploying great content online, to building education tools for our consumers, to building best in class user experiences on par with the best consumer startups in the world, to building tools for brokers to assist where they are most valuable. Our company is inherently data driven and there are plenty of opportunities down the road to apply Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning against actual problems with high quality data.
Come join us as we change this high impact industry that inherently touches many many lives.
What you’d be doing: - Participate in projects from initial idea to launch; - Design and implement features in small teams; - Work closely with peers across functions (dev, design, product, marketing); - Contribute full-stack features; - Specialize in important areas that play to your strengths; - Write software and configuration that defines and manages our deployment using Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform; - Build powerful APIs using languages like Go and Python; - Build reusable components using React, Redux and a modern frontend stack; - Analyze performance and reliability - data should move fast and accurately; - Contribute to open source software we use; - Implement security and data protection best practices; - Stay up to date on latest technology and help us stay aligned with emerging best practices where practical; - Help onboard and ramp up the next software engineers as we grow the team.
What we’re looking for: - Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science or Software Engineering OR Demonstrated achievements in software development; - A great track record demonstrating growth and drive; - Excellent communications skills (English - French); - Humility; - Hard worker; - Ambitious.
What we’d like to see: - Startup experience or interest; - Mastery or strong interest in technologies we use.
What we offer: - We will give you the opportunity to have a strong impact in shaping the product of a heavily backed new startup.
We are a team of visionary and caring individuals who are committed to help you learn and grow professionally. Having two parents in our co-founding team, we recognize the importance of personal and family time, flexible hours and great benefits. By joining us, you will get a competitive salary, stock options, a telemedicine service for you and your family and a healthy and accessible working environment.
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You have:
Solid Kubernetes experience in a professional environment ● You have experience scaling Kubernetes (including auto-scaling) ● You have deployed a Kubernetes deployment on AWS ● You've implemented metrics, logging and tracing ● You know how to get under the hood to diagnose issues when things go wrong
Good knowledge of AWS (or GCE) ● EC2 & VPCs ● S3 ● DynamoDB ● RDS (Postgres/Aurora) ● Cloudfront ● SQS ● Route 53
Worked with some of the following technologies ● Golang ● Ruby/Python ● Bash script ● Postgres
Knowledge of fundamentals of GIS ● You can use PostGIS to run basic queries
Your responsibilities: ● As a fast growing company, scaling our systems as we grow will be a core part of your job. ● Building out our metrics, logging and tracing infrastructure to give us full insight into our stack. ● Looking after our AWS & Heroku accounts & infrastructure. ● Managing our external services (CDNs, Databases etc) ● Ensuring security standards throughout our infrastructure. ● Improving the performance and reliability of our tile and data stacks. ● Maintaining and improving our user databases. ● Iterating on our PostGIS adventure databases. ● Mentoring our more junior developers. ● Building on our current engineering processes such as code reviews, pull requests etc. ● Helping us continue to build our engineering culture.
Your profile: ● You're an engineer that can see the bigger picture, you understand why performance and quality is important to our end users and why automated tests and documentation are important to our wider engineering team. ● You care deeply about the quality of the work you produce. ● You can distill complex requirements into a non-complex solution. ● You have excellent communication skills and can explain complicated problems in an easy to understand way. ● You are dynamic and can effortlessly transition between the various facets of the company as required. ● You are a self-starter and comfortable taking the lead on certain aspects of your role. ● You are comfortable mentoring other members of the engineering team.
GrayMeta is looking for a mid- to senior-level Golang Developer to join our team and work with our scalable, highly-available Golang platform. We are looking for someone that has experience with building great user experiences, high performant single page applications and loves the creative aspect of building.
Love a challenge? Anyone can manage a single application - we manage and processing petabytes of video and image files along with the components supporting billions of operations with very different workloads. You'll be part of a highly capable and motivated team working on solving the hard problems of scalability, availability, and performance on a global platform across multiple data store technologies.
ESSENTIAL POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
· Work closely with Marketing, Product, and other stakeholders to ensure product requirements are understood
· Perform a technical analysis of requirements
· Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements
· Tackle tough design and UX problems
· Create new ideas with our digital team and continually iterate on the experience
· Ensure high level of quality
· Take full ownership of the product from design to implementation and deployment
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:
· 5+ years of web production or site operations experience
· Deep understanding of SQL/NSQL
·Deep experience with Golang, experience in Machine Learning a +
· Ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others
· Ability to instill and enforce best practices around web development
· Ability to navigate large existing code, and improve it as it changes
· A sense of urgency and ownership over the product
· Great attitude towards work and people
· Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive
· Focus on quality and simplicity, sweat the details, and delight our users
· Motivated to solve problems in unique and innovative ways
· Desire to make things beautiful, and a strong understanding of usability and visual design
· Preferably strong working knowledge of: Golang, Elastic and Postgres
Onsite in Austin, TX 78704 Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Description
Do you enjoy building processing pipelines for massive amounts of data? Adaptable time-series databases? Machine learning? Streaming analytics pipelines? We’ve got a lot of opportunities for you to leave your mark.
A Backend Developer at Meshify will have the opportunity to work on a myriad of projects and applications. We have just finished 1.0 of our platform rewrite, entitled Carbon. It is a full scale redesign and rewrite of our legacy platform. We migrated from an old .NET API server to Go, from MySQL to ScyllaDB (Cassandra) for time-series data, and from MySQL to Postgres for relational data. It includes a query and analytics engine, highly customizable rules and notifications engine, and even custom javascript code triggered by messages in the data pipeline (Lambda Engine). Future projects will include a Hardware Identity Server providing identity and security to our hardware, simple integration with big data tooling, improved GPS rule processing, integration with common ticketing systems like Pager Duty, and more.
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Key Responsibilities
Skills & Requirements
Sample of what we currently use