Role overview
A digital banking organisation is hiring a senior backend engineer to help build and evolve its in-house banking platform. The engineering organisation spans roughly 650 people working across disciplines, tackling challenges that range from customer-facing products through to infrastructure, security, payments, financial crime, and data. The role suits someone who wants broad impact and is comfortable working across a regulated financial product, with flexible working options across the UK.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop backend services that power everyday banking features
- Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes
- Build resilient distributed systems using asynchronous messaging and event-driven patterns
- Operate and evolve services running on container orchestration infrastructure
- Make data-informed decisions that improve customer experience
- Participate in technical discussions including system design, pairing, and code reviews
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience on a production technology product
- Comfort working in teams that navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Interest in distributed systems, resilience, and writing reliable software
- Familiarity with a strongly-typed language such as Go, Java, C, or Scala
- A product mindset focused on customer outcomes
- Genuine enthusiasm for a product used daily by a large customer base
Nice to have
- Hands-on exposure to Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, AWS, or GCP
- Experience building public web apps or internal tooling with React
Benefits and work setup
- £85,000–£110,000 base salary plus performance-linked incentive awards
- London headquarters with UK-remote flexibility and reimbursed travel for occasional in-person gatherings
- Visa sponsorship and UK relocation support available
- Flexible hours and part-time arrangements considered where feasible
- £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training courses, and conferences
- Structured interview process averaging around four weeks: an initial call, a take-home task or pair coding exercise, and a final round covering system design and behavioural fit
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Backend Engineer III Arbeitgeber: monzoreferrals
Als Arbeitgeber bietet die digitale Bank eine dynamische und unterstützende Arbeitsumgebung, in der Senior Data Scientists eng mit funktionsübergreifenden Teams zusammenarbeiten, um innovative Produktstrategien zu entwickeln. Mit einem attraktiven Gehaltspaket, flexiblen Arbeitszeiten und einem jährlichen Lernbudget von 1.000 £ fördert das Unternehmen kontinuierliches Lernen und persönliche Entwicklung. Die Möglichkeit zur Relokation nach London und die Unterstützung bei Visa-Angelegenheiten machen diese Position besonders attraktiv für talentierte Fachkräfte, die in einem zukunftsorientierten Umfeld arbeiten möchten.
